Timonen Lab

University of Helsinki

Manner-Suomi (FI1) · Finland

ERC-funded
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ERC Advanced Grant · 2022

Material and environmental legacies in the 21st century: a theory of legacy-making between generations

Human legacies are more important and influential than ever before because the window of opportunity for generational interaction has been greatly extended due to longer life expectancies, and because legacies assume unprecedented importance in a world marked by inequality and environmental degradation. The LEGACIES project arises from my original proposition that legacies are not only posthumous and concern older people and their heirs, but they are dynamic intergenerational processes comprising material and immaterial dimensions. Material legacies (wealth, assets) that are transferred from one generation to the next are growing, greater in volume than ever, and highly influential in…

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