Abstract

This article engages Italian migrant experiences and enactments of futurity to problematize neoliberal anticipatory approaches to ageing and care. Stepping beyond the focus on atomized and agentic individuals and a singular imagined future defined by notions of advancement and progress, sistemazione (home, future, and security) offers ways of building alternative and relational futures within times and spaces of shared precarity. We draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Italian migrant families living in Adelaide, and a critical analysis of objects as “orienting devices,” to consider how a family heirloom, a 26-face handmade Italian clock made from the physical remnants of World War II, offers new ways of imagining care within spaces of ruin.

RAS ID

71183

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-1-2025

Volume

61

Issue

1

Funding Information

Hospital Research Foundation

National Health and Medical Research Council

Modbury Hospital l Foundation

School

School of Arts and Humanities

Grant Number

NHMRC Number : APP1133407

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Publisher

Sage

Identifier

Simone Marino

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6349-6013

Comments

Zivkovic, T., & Marino, S. (2025). “The clock is ticking”:(Dis) orientations to ageing and end-of-life care in advanced capitalism and care directives. Journal of Sociology, 61(1), 140-158. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241249510

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.1177/14407833241249510