Book Review: Empowering the Elderly? How ‘Help to Self-Help’ Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
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Book Review: Preventing Dementia? Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age
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Book Review: The Right to an Age-Friendly City: Redistribution, Recognition, and Senior Citizen Rights in Urban Space
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Book Review: Changes in Care: Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa
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Book Review: Culture, Context and Ageing of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond
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Professional Women and Elder Care in Contemporary Japan: Anxiety and the Move Toward Technocare
The elder population in Japan is increasing drastically, causing a number of issues that have not yet surfaced in most Western countries. Demographic data from Japan reveal that the Japanese have the longest lifespan globally, resulting in the world’s …
Modest Swimwear, Religiosity and Aging: Apparel and Physical Activity for Women Throughout the Life Course
Swim-related activity is one of the most recommended forms of physical activity for older adults, increasing the importance of access to swimming and water sports throughout the life course. This study examined eight online forums addressing topics rel…
Technologies of Ascription: How Does a Dementia Diagnosis Acquire its Symbolic Power of Exclusion in Later Life?
Amidst the widespread stigma and exclusion attached to dementia in dominant narratives of successful ageing, this article addresses a gap in the scientific literature concerning our understanding of the medicalization of cognitive decline as a natural …
From the Stands to the Arena of Social Movements: Post-2011 Football Terrace Chants in Tunisia
This paper discusses the evolution of social criticism reflected in the Tunisian Ultra groups’ football chants and investigates the Ultras’ involvement in social movements. To address this issue, we developed a database of mostly published Ultra songs …
Religious Advertising in Ukraine: Political and Social Contexts
Religious advertising is a new phenomenon in the Ukrainian media space. Starting from 2019 to the time of writing, it has been right in the middle of political battles as a public platform that represents the idea of the Independent Ukrainian Church. R…
“Sana All”: Netizens’ Perception of Government Responses to COVID-19
Netizens posted views that contradicted the results released by research agencies about the Philippine government’s responses to COVID-19. In this study, Twitter, which is a key communication channels, was the main source of data to explore the public’…
Think Tanks and Democratisation in South Africa
As policy and research institutes, think tanks have advisory and monitoring mandates that could be channelled towards consolidating democracy. Yet, although South Africa has some well-established think tanks (WETT), their presence has not translated in…
Chosen Trauma, Emotions and Memory in Movements: The Ogoni and Ijaw in the Niger Delta
This paper presents a critical analysis of ‘Chosen Trauma’ theory and its applicability to social movement responses to oil resource extractive activities in Nigeria. Volkan’s (1985, 1997, 2005) formulations on ‘collective calamity of groups’ ancestors…
Science Unseen: Inclusive Practices in Introductory Biological Anthropology Laboratory Courses for Blind and Low-Vision Students
Science education relies heavily on observable phenomena or imagery, making it by and large inaccessible to blind and low vision (BLV) students. As laboratory science courses are frequently necessary to complete general education requirements in higher…
Qu’y a-t-il dans une assiette autochtone ?
Alors que l’on peut s’initier à une vaste panoplie de cultures alimentaires internationales au sein de la plupart des villes nord-américaines, qu’en est-il de la découverte de cultures alimentaires autochtones ? Existe-il des « restaurants autoc…
Book Review: Necropolitics by Mbembe A
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Voskopoja and Ioannina, two advanced centers of the European Enlightenment in the Ottoman West
This paper considers the impact of Enlightenment ideals before and during the Movement of the New Greek National Ideology during the 17th to 19th centuries. It is about Ioannina and Voskopoja, located today respectively in northwestern Greece and in so…
Book Review: Africa Since Decolonization. The History and Politics of a Diverse Continent by Welz, Martin
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Book Review: Risko und HIV/Aids in Botswana. Leben in der Pandemie by Astrid Bochow
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editorial team waits for your articles for CAES Vol. 8, № 2 that is going to be published in early June 2022. The deadline for submission is May 17, 2022.
Change is the Only Constant in Life
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
CAES Vol. 8, № 1
Think pieces: A conclusion about the structure of the winter settlements of Paja Ul Deˀŋ after experiments on making stone axes in the winter period Alexander Akulov Manufacturing of stone axes/adzes was a matter of vital importance for Paja Ul Deˀŋ. In winter boulders are covered with a thin layer of ice, and therefore, before […]
‘Les difficultés liées à la collecte des données en histoire au Cameroun : le cas des données d’archives et des sources orales.’
Vestiges: Traces of Record
L’archivage pratique à l’heure du covid
Vestiges: Traces of Record
Dear German Academia: What is Your Role in African Knowledge Production?
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Although African critical scholars since the 19th century have challenged the culture of studying and writing about Africa, research practices on Africa are still entangled in epistemic injustices resulting from colonia…