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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The Collateral Damage of Policy Reform: Low-Income Women Retirees, State Feminism, and the Pension System in Sweden
In 2014, the Swedish government declared itself the first feminist government in the world. Indeed, the country has been successful in promoting gender equality, yet many retired women, particularly in rural areas, live on an income below the EU povert…
Book Review: Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives
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Navigating Mediated Kinship and Care in Our Aging Futures
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Film Review: Half Elf
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Book Review: Troubling Inheritances: Memory, Music and Aging
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Book Review: Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care
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Rethinking Intergenerational Living as the Ideal Form of Senior Care: Life Course Research with Immigrant Families in Toronto
Canada’s care systems are ill-equipped to support its aging population, and this crisis intertwines with an acute shortage of affordable housing. Immigrants to Canada have a higher propensity to cohabitate multi-generationally, an arrangement that is s…
Narratives of Personhood and Caregiving in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes During COVID-19
Drawing on narratives recorded from family members of residents in long-term care homes in Ontario, Canada, during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, in this paper, I present a two-pronged argument. First, following Taylor (2008) and Seaman (2018, 2020) I sug…
Technologized Intimacies and Posthuman Kinship Across the Life Course
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Book Review: Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroad
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sugar, A Morally Ambiguous Substance: Responsibility, Social Class and Pleasure in Scotland’s State Primary Schools
Children’s sugar consumption has been marked out as an important area of public health policymaking in the UK, due to connections between sugar consumption, obesity, type 2 diabetes and dental decay. Yet unlike other regulated substances (al…