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The Mortal Method is a framework that examines what it means to a) be mortal and b) to do academic work that acknowledges and honours our mortality. Specifically, the Mortal Method highlights five qualities of mortality: finitude, embodiment, eros, connection, and meaning-making.
Banerjee, A. (2022). Improving care in practice: Learning from the senior's advocate's inquiry into the death of a new brunswick nursing home resident. Journal of New Brunswick Studies, 14(2), 3-11. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/JNBS/article/view/33062/1882528518
Banerjee, A., Taylor, D. Stranz, A., Wahl, A. (2021). “Facilitated reflection meetings as a relational approach to problem-solving within long-term care facilities.” Journal of Aging Studies (59), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2021.100965 (PDF of the article)
Banerjee, A., McGregor, M., Ponder, S., & Longhurst, A. (2021). Long-Term Care Facility Workers’ Perceptions of the Impact of Subcontracting on their Conditions of Work and the Quality of Care: A Qualitative Study in British Columbia. Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S071498082100012X (PDF of the article)
Brassoloto, J. Banerjee, A, and Chivers S (2021:March 29), Death-friendly communities ease fear of aging and dying, available on line at: https://theconversation.com/death-friendly-communities-ease-fear-of-aging-and-dying-157655
Banerjee, A. (2018) Tensions between principles and practices in long-term residential care. In. R. Lowndes (Ed). Negotiating Tensions: Conversations Worth Having. Ottawa; Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives.
Banerjee, A., Armstrong, P., Daly, T., Armstrong, H., and Braedley, S. (2015).“ ‘Careworkers don’t have a voice’: Epistemological violence in residential care for older people.” Journal of Aging Studies, 33: 28-36.
Banerjee, A. and Armstrong, P. (2015). “Centering Care: Exploring Regulatory Tensions in Residential Care for Older Persons.” Studies in Political Economy, 95: 7-28.
Banerjee, A., Daly, T., Armstrong, P., Szebehely, M., Armstrong, H., and Lafrance, S. (2012). “Structural Violence in Long-Term Care: Comparing Canada and Scandinavia.” Social Science and Medicine, 74(3): 390-98.
Armstrong, P., Banerjee, A., Szebehely, M., Armstrong, H., Daly, T., & Lafrance, S. (2009). They Deserve Better: The Long-Term Care Experience in Canada and Scandinavia. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Center For Policy Alternatives.
Banerjee, A. (2008). “Disciplining Death: Hypertension and the Production of Mortal Subjectivities.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 12(1): 25-42.
Banerjee, A. and Birenbaum-Carmelli., D. (2007). “Ordering Suicide: Media Representations of Family Assisted Suicide in the UK,” British Medical Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics, 33:639-642.
Banerjee, A. (2005). “Speaking of Death: Representations of Death in Palliative Care.” InterCulture, 2(2):10-29.
Digital Media
Banerjee, A. (2021) Love and Death in the Time of COVID. Digital Short story, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRoDCNMXcJA
Brassolotto, J. and Banerjee, 2020, Exploring Death Friendliness, Digital short, available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYbosNFtAmk
Conference Presentations
Banerjee, A., Taylor, D., Stranz, A. and Wahl, A. (2019). “Caring innovation: Listening to staff to improve care for older persons in nursing homes.” The fourth Transforming Care Conference, Copenhagen June 24-26th.
Banerjee, A. and Kilner, S. (2019). “Ageless self, transient person-hood: A yogic dialogue with active aging.” TrentAging2019, Second Joint Conference of NANAS and ENAS, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, May 28-31.
Banerjee, A. (2017). “Being mortal: The utility of the concept of mortality.” European Network on Aging Studies Conference, Graz, Austria, April 27-30.
Banerjee, A. (2017) “Care as cosmology? Theorizing care through a cosmological lens,” Center of Care Research, Western Norway University, Bergen, May 9.