Book Review: Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care
Anthropology & Aging
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Book Review: The Future of Leisure and Retirement: Pension Schemes, Community Support, and Contemporary Consequences for the Next Generation.
Anthropology & Aging
“The older you get, the less people care about you”: The Sexual and Reproductive Health Management of Older Women with Disabilities in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Normative healthy aging frameworks promote later-life wellbeing through the maintenance of functional ability, moralizing autonomy, productivity, and sexual fitness, rendering disability, interdependence, and non-normative sexual lives signs of decline…
The Chief of Lähiö: Retirement and Ageing States in Helsinki, Finland
Retirement is a transitional process, a period associated with an end to working life when individuals develop new social lives and belonging. Simultaneously, retirement is an institutional moment, involving new obligations and contractual arrangements…
Beyond the Human: Rethinking Loneliness through Ecological Connectedness and Disconnectedness in Later Life
Dominant discourses on ageing often emphasise the significance of social networks and the risks of social isolation, reinforcing an anthropocentric view that prioritises human relationships. While social relations are undoubtedly important, this articl…
Innovating Contemporary Thai Musical Drama for Enhancing Quality of Life in the Ageing Society
This study presents the development of an innovative contemporary Thai musical drama designed to educate the public about preparing for an ageing society. Traditional Thai musical drama—featuring vocal performance with percussion accompanime…
From Streets to Screens: Urban Popular Culture and Political Mobilization in Nigeria’s #EndSARS Protests
This paper examines how popular culture and digital media shaped youth-led mobilization during Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests. While scholarship on Nigerian activism often focuses on state violence and democratic struggle, this study highlights…
Behind the ‘Coolest Neighbourhood’ Label: Urban Transformation in Arroios, Lisbon
The paper delves into the concept of ‘superdiversity’ within urban districts, using as a case study an area in Lisbon (Arroios), Portugal, which has been dubbed the coolest neighbourhood in the world. Based on case study methodology, using a…
Determinants of Community Participation in Community Policing Endeavors in Addis Ababa City Administration
This research explores factors influencing residents’ engagement in community policing in Addis Ababa City, employing a cross-sectional descriptive and interpretive approach. Data was collected from 328 respondents through a semi-structured …
Ungovernable ferns and the horizons of conservation in late industrial ecologies
How might overabundant ferns vitalize and pressure political ecologies of landscapes and wildlife conservation? This ethnographic article interrogates the relational worlds of humans, animals, and the fern species known as the ‘bracken fern’ (the Pteri…
Putting metrics last: A decolonial feminist approach to evaluating energy justice
Quantitative tools for evaluating energy justice allow users to make quickly comparisons across options. Most of these tools overrepresent distributional justice at the expense of other dimensions that are more difficult to measure (e.g., procedural, r…
Leaving the Faith, Preserving the Self
This article examines how identity motives shape siblings’ disaffiliation from the Conservative Laestadian revival movement in a Sweden-Finnish context, highlighting apostasy as a multifaceted identity process marked by renegotiation betwee…
The Portrayal of the Pre-Islamic Arabs as Murderers of Their Own Infants
This article critically reassesses the accounts of the supposed custom of infanticide, particularly female infanticide (in Arabic, wa’d al-banāt), among pre-Islamic Arabs, arguing that this notion emerged during the Umayyad era as an imagin…
Social Identity Approach and Historical Research on the Early Modern Era
This review article explores the applicability of the Social Identity Approach (SIA) in historical research, focusing on research and sources from the Early Modern era, particularly the context of the Lutheran Reformation. The study argues …
The Attraction of the Enemy
This study investigates polemical representations of enemies in early Christian Greek literature (1–600 CE) through the framework of Cultural Attraction Theory. It begins with the identification of recurring categories of accusations—such a…
Social Identity across Time
Identities (and social identities) are studied in many different disciplines and approached with different theoretical tools and concepts. This special issue grew out of the need to enhance dialogue between disciplines and expand our common…
Social Identities and Dialogical Selves
Identity is a key concept in practically all fields of the humanities and social sciences. However, different approaches diverge dramatically in their conceptualization of identity, which makes mutual dialogue and integration markedly chall…
Antisemitism
The aim of this article is to synthesize existing knowledge in a novel way by looking through a social psychological lens at historical manifestations of antisemitism and its most recent variant, presented as a case study which tracks its d…
Two Sides of a Border Town: Urban Inequalities in the Face of Extreme Heat in Beitbridge, Zimbabwe
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Extreme weather patterns have become an inconvenient reality in contemporary times and coping strategies reveal entrenched social inequalities. This article focuses on how extreme heat impacts different populations loca…
Africa Spectrum at 60: Bridging Knowledge and Mapping the Road Ahead
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
IJAPS Vol. 22, No. 1
We are pleased to announce the latest publication of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1.
All articles in this latest issue can be accessed via this link.
We take this opportunity to thank our contrib…
The Matryoshka Strategy: Russia’s Hybrid Tactics in the Sahel
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper employs the Matryoshka Model to examine Russia’s multi-layered strategy in the Sahel, conceptualising its engagement as a hybrid form of hegemonic competition that integrates diplomacy, economic leverage, sec…
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!The CAES editorial team looks forward to receiving your papers for CAES Vol. 12, No. 2, which is going to be published in late May or early June 2026. The deadline for submission of papers is May 11, 2026.
CAES Vol. 12, № 1
Editor’s foreword Articles Comparing Late Jōmon Ainu terms for body parts with their Proto-Sino-Tibetan and Proto-Tibeto-Burman correspondences Alexander Akulov, Tresi Nonno Late Jōmon Ainu (LJA) terms for body parts have clearly seen Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST) and Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB) correspondences. “Breast”: LJA *to ~ PST *[ʒ́h]aw. ”Eye”: LJA *sik ~ PTB *dzyuŋ / *tsyuŋ. “Face”: LJA *nan […]
From Religion to Kinship: The Politics of Giving in Somali Diaspora Aid Networks
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article examines Somali diaspora humanitarianism by comparing mosque and kinship-based associations in Eastleigh, Nairobi. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Eastleigh and Mogadishu – including fifty-seven interv…