Book Review: Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England
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Category: English
Book Review: Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility
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Film Review: Ben Jij Bij Mij/Are You With Me
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Book Review: Robots Won’t Save Japan: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation
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Life Purpose in the Age of the Smartphone: Reflections from Comparative Anthropology
In this paper, we investigate whether there exists in different societies something analogous to the idea of ‘life purpose.’ Drawing on examples from across the entire range of ASSA project field sites, the paper is organised as a spectrum, starting fr…
Realizing Possibilities: A Conversation with Akaninyene A. Otu
Anthropology & Aging
Realizing Possibilities: A Conversation with Akaninyene A. Otu
Anthropology & Aging
Grandparenting and Retirement: Re-thinking Roles, Reciprocity, and Responsibility in Milan and Yaoundé
In this article we comparatively explore experiences and notions of retirement in two ethnographic sites of Milan, Italy, and Yaoundé, Cameroon, by paying attention to how grandparenting is perceived and practiced in relation to kinship roles and respo…
Ageing and the Transportal Home
Taking a comparative approach to two field sites – Shanghai in China and Dublin in Ireland – this paper explores the relationship between ageing, home, and the impact of the smartphone on domestic space. Although Shanghai and Dublin are extremely diver…
Digital Dependency as a Burden: Impact of Active Aging for Tech Adoption in Brazil and Chile
Successful aging and active aging policies frame independence in old age as an expectation and a virtue in opposition to the once desired reciprocity between generations. Due to digitalization trends worldwide, mastering digital skills becomes another …
Bringing Ageing to Life: A Comparative Study of Age Categories
This article offers a comparative ethnographic study of ageing as both category and experience. Drawing on simultaneous 16-month ethnographies conducted as part of the ASSA project, we focus on how ageing is being re-defined in eight contexts around th…
Introduction: Comparative Insights from the ASSA Project
This introduction provides a basic description of the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA) project, including the project’s range of field sites, methods, and ethics. I compare this project with prior comparative studies in the anthropol…
Book Reviews
Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 41Issue: 2Pages: 112-122
Introduction
Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: 1-22
Productive Decontextualization
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 67Issue: 3Pages: 82-89
Trust as affective infrastructure
Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 41Issue: 2Pages: 71-86
Editorial Response to Issue 32(1) on Materialities of Age & Ageing
Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: v-xii
Dramatic Vignettes in Moral Inquiry
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 67Issue: 3Pages: 66-74
Essentialising medicines
Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 41Issue: 2Pages: 87-104
Trolleyology and the Anthropology of the Ethical Imagination
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 67Issue: 3Pages: 58-65
When partners are suspect(s)
Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 41Issue: 2Pages: 51-70
Off the Rails
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 67Issue: 3Pages: 45-57
Humanitarian technologies of trust
Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 41Issue: 2Pages: 33-50
Conscientious Objection or Objecting to the Conscience?
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 67Issue: 3Pages: 26-44
Remaining Kin over Time
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 31Issue: 3Pages: 102-116