Technologized Intimacies and Posthuman Kinship Across the Life Course
Anthropology & Aging
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Book Review: Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroad
Anthropology & Aging
Book Review: Late-Life Homelessness: Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging
Anthropology & Aging
Doing Futures-Anthropology Research in Visions of Aging Technology
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Growing Old in the City: Challenges of Access to and Control of Urban Houses among Older Women in Low-income Suburbs of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
This study addresses the struggles for housing among older women, including the meaning attached to ownership and control of urban houses among low-income households. It analyses the extent to which older women in low-income suburbs of Bulawayo, Zimbab…
Film Review: Death of the One Who Knows
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Technology a Co-Actor in Kinning and ‘Desirable’ Aging?
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Introduction: Debating Desirable Aging Futures through Technology
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Book Review: Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
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Digital Kinship: The Future Calling
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From the Editor-in-Chief
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Book Review: Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture: Representations in Film, Music, Literature, and Social Media
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Ways of storing and using water: Experiences of uneven water scarcity in a water-rich region
Communities in Darjeeling town have been experiencing and coping with water scarcity for decades. Developmental history points towards fragmented governance and inefficient infrastructural interventions, which have led to uneven access to water defined…
Debating Veganism
The article aims to understand the controversial process of categorization at work in debates about the meaning of “veganism” by focusing on one of the key sites for building contemporary public knowledge: Wikipedia. First, we suggest how the co…
Hope and Haunting Images: The Imaginary in Danish Parkinson’s Disease Rehabilitation
Much in life is imagined: hoped for, dreamed about, or dreaded, as we engage with potential futures. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive and neuro-degenerative disease, currently incurable. During long-term fieldwork among Danish rehabilite…
Mother of All Labour: Vulnerability and Immunity in Times of Ebola
Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit was unique at the time of the outbreak that hit the Guinea in 2014. Contrary to other infrastructures run by Western workers, Wonkifong mainly employed personnel from Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, a…
Labile Bodies: A Hospital Ethnography of Medical Professionals’ Struggles in Deceased Organ Donation
This article presents an ethnographic study of the donor body in deceased organ donation. Drawing on the science and technology studies’ incitement to study bodies being enacted and acted upon in situated practices, I explore the body being done and be…
Pandemic and Politicisation in Argentina: Nursing Professional Trajectories in the Conurbano Bonaerense Region
The article analyses the politicisation of nursing personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, focusing on the trajectories of nurses trained in the public universities of the so-called ‘conurbano bonaerense’, especially in the youn…
Making Homes in a Nursing Facility in Athens
This Photo Essay seeks to visualise the room-homes of the residents in one of the largest semi-public nursing homes in Athens, Greece. Unlike in other facilities, residents are given the opportunity to intervene in their individual rooms, to…
The Glass Witness: Visual and Tactile Engagements with Online Medical Crowdfunding
Donation-based crowdfunding platforms invite people to tell stories of unmet health needs in a hybrid form—using both words and images—but research to date has not addressed the role of visual practice in this setting, in any detail. In this…
The Role of Affective Labour in Expertise: Bringing Emotions Back into Expert Practices
In recent years, a lot of scholarly attention has been devoted to how practices of digitalisation and datafication require medical professionals to work together with different stakeholders, and to how such collaborations shape expertise (St…
Seeking Knowledge in and for Troubled Times: The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, MAT, and a Shared Vision
Editorial for the September Issue, 2024
Of Truths and Snakes: The Percussive Effects of Asylum Seeking in Australia
Australia’s border hardened stance has created a culture of asylum prevention, providing a rationale for the use of defence and security as the core argument to prevent asylum seeker protection. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken wi…
A Potent Chew?: Kenyan Khat and the Agency of Drugs
Few other categories of things appear so bound up with questions of agency, power and responsibility as that of ‘drugs’. With over a century of global treaties and prohibition of such substances, we are accustomed to thinking of them as pote…
UK Khat Prohibition and the Making of a Harmful Drug
This article delves into the complex dynamics of khat (Catha edulis) prohibition in the UK, with a particular focus on a Somali community in north-west London. Despite the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs finding no substantial eviden…