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Aspiring in Later Life

Movements across Time, Space, and Generations

Rutgers University Press

While aspirations are most often connected to younger people, this volume argues that people do not stop aspiring in older age. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations are pursued over the course of life and in contexts of globalization and mobility.

This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Changes in Care

Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa

Rutgers University Press

As Africa’s population ages, the inadequacy of kin care becomes more visible. In Ghana, older people and their allies are developing fragile initiatives and programs beyond the norm of kin care. Changes in Care examines aging in Ghana as a way of understanding the unevenness of social change more widely.
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Aging in a Changing World

Older New Zealanders and Contemporary Multiculturalism

Rutgers University Press

Aging in a Changing World challenges simplified images of old people as racist, nostalgic, and resistant to change – stereotypes that have only grown more prevalent with the Brexit vote and the 2016 election of Donald Trump. This book takes a deep, nuanced look at the experiences of older people who, while “aging in place,” have been profoundly impacted by global population movement and the dramatic development of modern multiculturalism around them.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Embracing Age

How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well

Rutgers University Press

Embracing Age reveals that aging is not only a biological process, but is also shaped by what the process of growing older means to us. By examining Catholic nuns, a group that experiences positive health outcomes in older age, Anna I. Corwin reveals the connections between culture, language, and the experience of aging.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Growing Old in a New China

Transitions in Elder Care

Rutgers University Press

An accessible ethnographic exploration of aging and institutional elder care in China today, this book puts older adults at the center of the story. Set within a broader historical narrative of ceaseless change and transition, it explores attempts by elders, family members, caregivers, and society to achieve balance and harmony in both life and death.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland

Memory, Kinship, and Personhood

Rutgers University Press

In Poland, active aging programs both take on meanings associated with the country’s transition from socialism to capitalism and exceed such narratives of progress by resonating with older forms of activity in late life. Through intimate portrayals of a wide range of experiences of aging, Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland shows how everyday practices and shared ideas about the Polish nation offer possibilities for living a valued, meaningful life in old age.
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Through Japanese Eyes

Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America

Rutgers University Press

Through Japanese Eyes offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research. 
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Linked Lives

Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka

Rutgers University Press

When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives invites readers into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village to find out how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Gray Matters

Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life

Rutgers University Press

Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines films, literature, and art that focus on aging, often made by people who are over sixty-five. These texts are analyzed alongside recent gerontology research and extensive commentary from interviews and surveys of seniors to show how "stories" illuminate the dynamics of growing old by blending fact with imagination, giving a fuller picture of the aging process. 

 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People

Rutgers University Press

In Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette raises urgent legal, economic, educational, esthetic, and ethical issues to show why anti-ageism should be the next social movement of our time.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession

Global Perspectives

Edited by Sarah Lamb; Epilogue by Susan Reynolds Whyte
Rutgers University Press

Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession exposes and complicates contemporary readings of successful aging, questioning and defamiliarizing Western visions of the place of old age in the life course. This volume brings fresh insight and international perspectives that expand our collective imagination about what it is to age, and, by extension, to live.
 

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

Edited by Parin Dossa and Cati Coe
Rutgers University Press

Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and emotional contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas.
 

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

Edited by Parin Dossa and Cati Coe
Rutgers University Press

Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and emotional contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas.
 

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Aging and Loss

Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan

Rutgers University Press

Based on nearly a decade of research, Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan examines how the landscape of aging is felt, understood, and embodied by older adults themselves. In detailed portraits, anthropologist Jason Danely delves into the everyday lives of older Japanese adults as they construct narratives through acts of reminiscence, social engagement, and ritual practice, and reveals the pervasive cultural aesthetic of loss and of being a burden. 

  • Copyright year: 2015
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