Like most social scientists, my approach to methodology is in important ways entangled with personal narrative. My interest in age as a field of social analysis emerged from my early experiences as a secondary school teacher. As a twenty-three year-old trainee, I was barely older than the more senior teenage students in my charge. At […]
Month: February 2016
Putting Linked Lives at the Center of Ethnography
Two months before I leave for fieldwork and immerse myself in the daily realities of a small hamlet in Dolomiti di Brenta, northeast Italy, I can only speculate what conceptualizations of old age have emerged and are emerging as a result of wider forces shaping interpersonal connections in the village. What does aging mean […]
CFP: Ageing in Europe: Beyond the Work-Centered Life Course? (14-16 September, Frankfurt)
In modern European societies, work has become a key aspect in both structuring individual lives as well as in determining socio-economic well-being. Looking at recent ‘active ageing’ reforms, it is intended to become an even more central aspect for older individuals. This work-centred perspective – that also has been reflected in ageing research – provides […]
High on AAGE at the Mile High City: #AAA2015 conference report
Amid some snow flurries and nighttime temperatures dropping to 5°F, AAGE completed its 38th year with a major presence at the AAA meetings last November in Denver. Over the past five years we have partnered with the AAA Interest Group on Aging and the Life Course to share event space at the meetings, hold a […]
VITAL postdoctoral research fellowship in social studies of medicine: “Associating dementia”
“Associating dementia” (39.5 months from 15 August 2016) This is an exciting opportunity to join a new research team that will carry out collaborative ethnographic research on the making of quality of life; based in one of Europe’s most vibrant Anthropology departments at the University of Copenhagen and living in one of the world’s best […]
Aged Culture
This is the first post in the Life Course CRN blog exchange series developed in conjunction with the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group of AAA. A complete list of published exchanges in the series is available here. Follow this link to the corresponding post on “Producing Difference” by AAGE member Jason Danely. […]
The legacies of age: Some thoughts on categories, change and continuity
This is the first set of posts in the Life Course CRN blog exchange series developed in conjunction with the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group of AAA. A complete list of published exchanges in the series is available here. Follow this link to the corresponding post on “Producing Difference” by ACYIG member Elise […]