Successful aging as a contemporary obsession: global perspectives (global perspectives on aging)

Gangopadhyay, Jagriti

doi:10.1080/08952841.2020.1786339

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“…This article contributes to a growing area of anthropological research that seeks to find a middle ground among wider discourses that frame ageing within the tropes of either decline or 'successful ageing' (e.g., Danely 2019;Fujiwara 2012;Gangopadhyay 2021;Kavedžija 2019;Lamb 2017). Independence and autonomy are often presented as cornerstones of successful ageing, a concept which is itself critiqued as a product of global neoliberal processes (Chapman 2005;Portacolone 2011; Rubinstein and de Medeiros 2015; Clotworthy 2020).…”

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Bringing Ageing to Life: A Comparative Study of Age Categories

Hawkins,

Haapio-Kirk

2023

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This article offers a comparative ethnographic study of ageing as both category and experience. Drawing on simultaneous 16-month ethnographies conducted as part of the ASSA project, we focus on how ageing is being re-defined in eight contexts around the world, with particular focus on the authors’ field sites: rural and urban settings in both Japan and Uganda. Despite being among the world’s oldest and youngest populations, respectively, there are various affinities in both ethnographies of age and technology use related to the reconfiguration of family-care norms across distances. This shared finding informs the articulation of age categories, which we found to be negotiated in line with established intergenerational expectations and family roles. This paper is illustrated with ethnographic examples of how people redefine ageing in context and in turn bring ‘age’ to life, demonstrating the social significance of age categories.

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