Book Review: Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives
Anthropology & Aging
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Book Review: Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture: Representations in Film, Music, Literature, and Social Media
Anthropology & Aging
Film Review: Half Elf
Anthropology & Aging
Navigating Mediated Kinship and Care in Our Aging Futures
Anthropology & Aging
Book Review: Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care
Anthropology & Aging
Book Review: Troubling Inheritances: Memory, Music and Aging
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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…
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…
Book Review: Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda Togetherness in The Dotcom Age
Anthropology & Aging
Technologized Intimacies and Posthuman Kinship Across the Life Course
Anthropology & Aging
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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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…
Psychoactive Agents: Drugs, Morality, and Responsibility
Special Section Introduction
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…
Solace of Substance: Agency, Surrender, and Consolation in Addiction and Polydrug Use
Although preceding its association with substance use, early uses of the term ‘addiction’ signified intense attachment or ‘devotion’ to an activity or pursuit, indicating compromised autonomy, a necessary ‘culling’ of conflicting obligations…
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…
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…
Seeking Knowledge in and for Troubled Times: The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, MAT, and a Shared Vision
Editorial for the September Issue, 2024
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…
Psychoactive Agents: Drugs, Morality, and Responsibility
Special Section Introduction