Book Review: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Michael Gomez
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
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Bao jiaozi, the material, symbolic and sensorial production of festive food
Jiaozi is an important festive food as well as a mundane staple food in Chinse culture. The duality of food raises the question how festive food is produced. This article looks into the material process of bao jiaozi – the collective making of j…
Bao jiaozi
Jiaozi is an important festive food as well as a mundane stable food in Chinse culture. The duality of food raises the question how festive food is produced. This article looks into the material process of bao jiaozi – the collective making of j…
Role of Cultural Capital and Cultural Reproduction on Youth Development in India: A Generational Perspective
The present study endeavored to understand the perceptions of Indian older adults (age 60 and above) from urban centres of New Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai, about the state of youth development in India through applying a generational perspective. Drawin…
Book Review: Growing Old in a New China: Transitions in Elder Care
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Book Review: Indigenous Peoples and Dementia: New Understandings of Memory Loss and Memory Care.
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PORTFOLIO: Academics as Allies and Accomplices: Practices for Decolonized Solidarity
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Book Review: Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work
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Book Review: The Aging-Disability Nexus
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Book Review: Rituals of Care: Karmic Politics in an Aging Thailand
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Book Review: Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration and Kinship in Sri Lanka
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Book Review: The New American Servitude: Political Belonging Among African Immigrant Home Care Workers
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From the Editors: An Introduction
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Profiles of Ethiopian centenarians: A qualitative inquiry
As global aging advances, the number of centenarians worldwide is greatly increasing. Most of what is known about centenarians comes the Global North. It is not clear what factors contribute to longevity of centenarians in impoverished, mostly rural…
“Cinderella Men”: Husband- and Son- Caregivers for Elders with Dementia in Shanghai
Traditionally, women had the day-to-day responsibility for eldercare. However, social changes have created alternatives for men to take on what is generally considered a “female duty.” Particularly, as the prevalence of dementia has increased in China,…
Recognizing Caregiving Fatigue in the Pandemic: Notes on Aging, Burden and Social Isolation in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
In Italy, the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns have provoked potentially serious short and long-term consequences for older people with serious health conditions as well as their family caregivers. With the closure of adult day-care centr…
Education of values: Marketizing the aging population in urban China
In this article, I examine some of the marketing and sales strategies at Gardenview, a newly established eldercare company that ran a few residential eldercare facilities in Nanjing, China. There, like elsewhere in urban China, the projected aging demo…
Planning for Old Age in Peru: Count on Kin or Court the State?
Reciprocity among kin is central to Peruvian livelihoods, including into old age. Potentially affecting such family support, since 2011 Peru has offered a non-contributory cash transfer called Pensión 65 for seniors living in poverty. Past negative exp…
Meaning Making Among Older People in the Bible Belt in The Netherlands
In this ethnographic study, we examine how older Calvinist Protestants in a conservative rural area of the Netherlands experience “meaning in life.” We aim to contribute to current research on meaning in life within social and religious contexts. Here,…
Embodied Aging: Everyday body practices and Later Life Identities among the South Asian Indian Gujarati Diaspora in Canada
This study explores how South Asian Indian Gujarati older adults in Canada (Greater Vancouver area) strive to maintain personal continuity, citizenship, and selfhood through everyday body management practices (exercise/yoga, medication/health supplemen…
Imagining Possibilities: A Conversation with Dr. Aaron T. Seaman, President of AAGE
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Sleep as Homework and Engagement in Rehabilitation
In today’s push for shorter and quicker hospitalisations, everyday life often becomes a place of rehabilitation for people after they undergo surgical procedures. In order for hospitals to manage shortened periods of admission and to facilitate post-op…