Book Review: Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroad
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Book Review: Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda Togetherness in The Dotcom Age
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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…
Book Review: Late-Life Homelessness: Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging
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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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Film Review: Death of the One Who Knows
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Digital Kinship: The Future Calling
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Book Review: Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
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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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Book Review: Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture: Representations in Film, Music, Literature, and Social Media
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Film Review: Half Elf
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Navigating Mediated Kinship and Care in Our Aging Futures
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Book Review: Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…