Sökning: "anthropology of aging"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden anthropology of aging.

  1. 1. Shortchanged : Elderly Women Street Vendors in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

    Författare :Adelaida Caballero; Sverker Finnström; Don Kulick; Koenraad Stroeken; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Elderly women; old age in Africa; street vendors; Malabo; relational personhood; autonomy in later life; authoritarianism; Equatorial Guinea; cultural gerontology; anthropology of aging; Mujeres mayores; vejez en Africa; comercio informal; Malabo; personalidad relacional; autonomía en la edad avanzada; autoritarismo; Guinea Ecuatorial; gerontología cultural; antropología de la vejez; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; Geriatrics; Geriatrik; Genusvetenskap; Gender Studies;

    Sammanfattning : Normative assumptions regarding reciprocity between adult children and elderly parents continue to dominate narratives on later life in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet strenuous socioeconomic conditions make it difficult for families to meet expectations of care and support. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Tinkering Care Moves : Senior Home Care in Practice

    Författare :Peter A. Lutz; Mats Utas; Klaus Lindgaard Hoeyer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; care moves; tinkering; senior home care; Sweden; United States; Vårdvetenskap; Caring Sciences; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; Etnologi; Ethnology; Health Care Research; Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; Human-Computer Interaction; Människa-dator interaktion; Medical Informatics; Medicinsk informatik;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation builds on the current anthropological studies of care relations in practice. It draws inspiration from science and technology studies (STS) and postfeminist technoscience. A qualitative ethnographic approach grounds the empirical data collection and analysis. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Distributed cognition in home environments : The prospective memory and cognitive practices of older adults

    Författare :Mattias Forsblad (Kristiansson); Nils Dahlbäck; Corinna Kruse; Fredrik Stjernberg; Oskar Lindwall; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Distributed cognition; intelligent use of space; cognitive aging;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis I explore how older people make use of, and interact with, their physical environment in home and near-by settings to manage cognitive situations, specifically prospective memory situations. Older adults have in past research been shown to perform better on prospective memory in real-life settings than what findings in laboratory-like settings predict. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Surviving trauma in exile and the integration-conundrum : navigating therapy and the imperatives of a host(ile?) society

    Författare :Mayssa Rekhis; Richard Rechtman; Rebecca Popenoe; Miriam Ticktin; Lotte Segal; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Trauma; Psychotherapy; Refugees; Migration; Ethnography; Integration; Exile; Survival;

    Sammanfattning : “Undesirables” of the contemporary world (Agier, 2008), refugees are often considered “Others” whose lives can be wasted, at deadly borders, in detention centers, or at the margins of societies. Proving their suffering is a condition for accessing the right to asylum, but the current migration policies in the host countries expect them to quickly overcome it, and integrate, as a way to pay back for the protection they received. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Svensk-amerikaner i Kalifornien: En studie av lågaktiv etnicitet

    Författare :Henrik Tallgren; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social anthropology; ethnicity; identity; Swedish-Americans; Scandinavian-Americans; religion; California; Turlock;

    Sammanfattning : What does it mean to be a Swedish American?", is the major question addressed in this dissertation. This is divided into several more manageable questions, e.g., how Swedish-Americans express their ethnic identity, and how they are affected by ethnic constructions made in Swedish-American organizations. LÄS MER