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Growing Old on the Margins: Abandonment, Care, Death, Intimacy, and Possibility in Lima, Peru

Growing Old on the Margins: Abandonment, Care, Death, Intimacy, and Possibility in Lima, Peru

Zegarra Chiappori, Magdalena

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Series: Global Perspectives on Aging

Aging & Elder CareGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 9, 2027

ISBN10: 1978848161
ISBN13: 9781978848160
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Feb 9 2027
Pages: 196
Language: English

Growing Old on the Margins is a moving portrait of aging at the edge of social life. Set in a state-run shelter for older adults in urban Lima, Peru, the book traces the everyday lives of men and women who have been left behind by family, institutions, and the promises of care. Based on more than two years of close ethnographic engagement, it follows residents as they navigate loneliness, illness, intimacy, and the quiet anticipation of death. Through small gestures--shared silences, requests for affection, moments of tenderness and conflict--the book reveals how people strive to remain present in a world that offers them little reason to hope. Care appears here not as a simple act of kindness, but as a fragile and uneven practice, shaped by scarcity, power, and moral ambiguity. Attentive to suffering without romanticizing it, Growing Old on the Margins reflects on what it means to age, endure, and remain human when one's life is no longer considered worthy of attention.

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