Dismantling a Bedroom of Youth
How Space and Material Culture Mediate the Life Course I am currently conducting anthropological fieldwork in New York City, studying young adults at the end […]
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“Not in His Right Mind”: The Life course of Adoptees Diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder in the United States
By Rachael Stryker In spring 2010, Tennessee adoptive mother, Torry Ann Hansen, sent her seven-year-old adopted son, Artyom (Justin) Savelyev, back to his native country […]
see more The Value of Intergenerational Storytelling
“This is really starting to get interesting, because I have lots of stories to tell!” exclaimed Bernice (pseudonym), a 95-year-old participant in the newly-launched Upper […]
see more The Importance of ‘Blood,’ Identity, and Intergenerational Relationships over the Life Course of Ugandan Children Orphaned by AIDS
“They are my daughter’s blood. I couldn’t watch my blood suffer,” an elderly grandmother in Uganda told me. She was referring to her daughter’s […]
see more Time and bodies in grandparenthood
After more than a decade of following how the lives of grandparents and grandchildren – two different generations- in northwest Tanzania have unfolded, it is […]
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The Urban Future and the Aging Body
On Wednesday morning in February 2013, I rang the doorbell of Leena, a 77 years old woman who lived in the city center of Oulu […]
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Futures Past: Absent Kinships and the Japanese Child Welfare System
Assigned to write about “futures” in the context of childhood, I find myself dwelling on the past. Although approaches to childhood often must grapple with […]
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“Time is no longer a river”: Reflections on life, death, and youth in the digital age
This post is part of the Life Course Collaborative Research Network blog exchange, also available on the website of ACYIG. To see all of the […]
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Growing old and growing up: Teaching and learning about death
This post is part of the Life Course Collaborative Research Network blog exchange, also available on the website of ACYIG. To see all of the […]
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Age Imaginaries in School Ethnography
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 […]
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