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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.
This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.
- Copyright year: 2023
Changes in Care
Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa
By Cati Coe
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
Aging in a Changing World
Older New Zealanders and Contemporary Multiculturalism
By Molly George
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
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
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
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
Through Japanese Eyes
Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America
By Yohko Tsuji
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
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
Gray Matters
Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life
By Ellyn Lem; Foreword by Margaret Cruikshank
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
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
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
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
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
Aging and Loss
Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan
By Jason Danely
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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