PORTFOLIO: Way(s) We Remember: Mexican Kinships, Intersubjective Storytelling, and Thinking and Feeling Through Comics
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Category: English
Book Review: Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life
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Reconstructing Social Networks and Connections in Indigenous Tribes: An Analysis of Countermeasures to COVID-19 among Rural Tribes in Taiwan
Since the first outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, numerous countries have experienced waves of outbreaks that have had severe social, economic, and political effects. Many medical and anthropological studies have suggested that tribes and elders i…
The Myth of Average: Active Senior Citizens in the Aomori Prefecture in Japan
Japan is known for the highest life expectancy in the world, but there are regional variations within the country. Aomori, located at the northern tip of Japan’s mainland, is the prefecture characterized by heavy snow in winter and the lowest average l…
Ageing in Space: Remaking Community for Older Adults
In this paper, we explore the needs of older adults for social interaction by investigating how local and everyday communities are produced by service organisations and experienced by their patrons. We approach the social needs of older adults through …
Designing Products for Older People’s Social and Emotional Needs: A Case Study
The products that we use in our living environment greatly assist us in maintaining health and independence as we age. Much research has been conducted on the physical ergonomic needs in product design for older people, overlooking an understanding of …
Fiestas, Saints and Spirituality: Collective Rituals as Community Eldercare in Andalusia
In this paper, I explore how spirituality and collective rituals influence eldercare in a small town in Andalusia, Spain. I describe how older people’s interactions with the town’s Virgin Mary statues generate personhood, situating the Virgin saints as…
Book Review: Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life
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PORTFOLIO: Way(s) We Remember: Mexican Kinships, Intersubjective Storytelling, and Thinking and Feeling Through Comics
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Reconstructing Social Networks and Connections in Indigenous Tribes: An Analysis of Countermeasures to COVID-19 among Rural Tribes in Taiwan
Since the first outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, numerous countries have experienced waves of outbreaks that have had severe social, economic, and political effects. Many medical and anthropological studies have suggested that tribes and elders i…
The Myth of Average: Active Senior Citizens in the Aomori Prefecture in Japan
Japan is known for the highest life expectancy in the world, but there are regional variations within the country. Aomori, located at the northern tip of Japan’s mainland, is the prefecture characterized by heavy snow in winter and the lowest average l…
Designing Products for Older People’s Social and Emotional Needs: A Case Study
The products that we use in our living environment greatly assist us in maintaining health and independence as we age. Much research has been conducted on the physical ergonomic needs in product design for older people, overlooking an understanding of …
Ageing in Space: Remaking Community for Older Adults
In this paper, we explore the needs of older adults for social interaction by investigating how local and everyday communities are produced by service organisations and experienced by their patrons. We approach the social needs of older adults through …
Book Review: The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology
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Fiestas, Saints and Spirituality: Collective Rituals as Community Eldercare in Andalusia
In this paper, I explore how spirituality and collective rituals influence eldercare in a small town in Andalusia, Spain. I describe how older people’s interactions with the town’s Virgin Mary statues generate personhood, situating the Virgin saints as…
Book Review: Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life
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Book Review: Communication for Successful Aging: Empowering Individuals Across the Lifespan
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Book Review: Disability and Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective
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Book Review: Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
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Book Review: Age as Disease: Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices
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Book Review: Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
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Book Review: Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption
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Between Coups and Election: Constitutional Engineering and Military Entrenchment in Sudan
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how armies re-entrench their power after thwarting democratic transitions. After the Sudanese military staged a coup in October 2021 and altered the transitional constitution, coup leader Abdel…
Do Hegemonic-Party Regimes Reward or Punish Voters? A Tale of Distributive Politics in Tanzania
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Does resource allocation by the central government to local governments in Tanzania favour opposition or the ruling party’s strongholds? The literature advances two opposing theories – electoral competition and hegemoni…
Religious practice among Finnish converts to Orthodox Christianity
In this study, I discuss the devotional lives of Finns who have joined the Orthodox Church of Finland as adults. The analysis is based on interviews conducted with 29 converts to Orthodoxy. My specific focus is the interplay of interiority and exterior…