Project task
Measurement of (changes in) person-place-relationships
Expertise
Environmental gerontology, life course transitions, practice theories, ageing and technologies, age-friendly cities and communities, social inequalities, mixed-methods research
Biography
Biography
Dr.in Anna Wanka is a sociologist and critical gerontologist interested in the person-environment-relationships and the socio-material construction of age. She did her PhD at the University of Vienna in 2016 and has since worked at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main on her habilitation. Her areas of expertise comprise the social practices of doing age, life course transitions / retirement and the re/production of social inequalities across the life course, ageing and technologies, as well as age-friendly cities and communities. Theoretically Anna Wanka is specialized in practice theories, in which she was trained in the postgraduate programme “Sociology of Social Practices”, as well as through several international research fellowships. She is competent in both qualitative and quantitative methods and has high expertise in mixed-methods research. Currently she works on her in the DFG-funded interdisciplinary research training group “Doing Transitions”, exploring the multi-sited, multi-agential process of retiring as a constellation of social practices.
Relevant publications
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Wanka, A. & Oswald, F. (2020): „Mapping age“ - das Verhältnis von Altern und Raum neu denken. In: Wanka, A. & Oswald, F., Räumliche Anordnungen des Alter(n)s. Schwerpunktheft der Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 53, 379–381. Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-020-01769-4
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Gallistl V. & Wanka, A. (2019): Representing the “older end user”? Challenging the role of social scientists in the field of “active and assisted living.” International Journal of Care and Caring, 3 (1): 123 - 128. https://doi.org./10.1332/239788218X15411705865226
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Wanka, A.; Wiesböck, L.; Allex, B.; Mayrhuber, E.; Arnberger, A.; Eder, R.; Kutalek, R.; Wallner, P.; Hutter, H.-P.; Kolland, F. (2018). Everyday discrimination in the neighbourhood: What a ‘doing’ perspective on age and ethnicity can offer. Ageing and Society, 1-26. Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X18000466
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Wanka A. & Gallistl, V. (2018): Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging with Technology. Frontiers in Sociology 3: 6. Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00006
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Wanka, A. (2018): Disengagement as Withdrawal From Public Space: Rethinking the Relation between Place Attachment, Place Appropriation, and Identity-Building among Older Adults. The Gerontologist 58(1):130-139. Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnx081