Caring for Old Age

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Christiane Brosius is professor of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS). Her research is strongly related to urban, media, and visual cultures in South Asia (India and Nepal), in particular on urban transformation, art production, and cultural heritage. She has led several research projects on transcultural entanglements between South and East Asia and Europe..
Roberta Mandoki is a doctoral candidate at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS). Her research focusses on ageing, care, and family and urban anthropology in the Global South, in particular in South Asia. Together with the visual anthropologists Annika Mayer and Jakob Gross, she published the interactive online documentary Elderscapes: Ageing in Urban South Asia (2016).