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Amanda Grenier

Amanda Grenier is a Professor in the department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University. She is also the Director of the Gilbrea Centre for the Study of Aging. Her work explores the social constructs of aging and challenges taken-for-granted assumptions related to late life. Grenier is currently writing a book on homelessness and new research on precarious aging and social isolation.

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The contradictions of ‘house’ and ‘home’: The challenge of older homelessness

by Amanda Grenier May 17, 2017

by Amanda Grenier May 17, 2017

Written by: Amanda Grenier, Rachel Barken, and Colleen McGrath May 19th, 2017 Aging occurs in close relation to ‘house’ and ‘home.’ International policies and frameworks on aging are organized around ‘home,’…

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Current Discussion
Homelessness in Later Life: Recognition and Redistribution?

by Amanda Grenier June 3, 2016

by Amanda Grenier June 3, 2016

Back in my graduate studies, I remember discovering Nancy Fraser’s (1997) book Justice Interruptus, and in particular, her work on recognition and redistribution. The idea that justice requires both has stuck with me over the years, and is certainly relevant when thinking about homelessness in later life.

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