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  • Difficult Attachments

    Anxieties of Kinship and Care

    by Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Sandra Bamford, Marilyn Strathern, Janelle S. Taylor, Jason Danely, Celeste Pang, Danilyn Rutherford, Noa Vaisman, Erika Finestone0, Dawa Lokyitsang1, Deborah A. Boehm2, Katie Kilroy-Marac3, Patrick McKenzie4, Brady G’Sell5, Julia Kowalski6, Sonia Yuhui Zhang7, Michael Lambek8, Professor Riché J. Daniel Barnes9 ...
    Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is anything but ‘warm and fuzzy’ but is characterized, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Unsettled Futures

    Carceral Circuits and Old Age in Japan

    by Jason Danely ...
    There are two prevailing myths about Japanese society: first, that it has a successful elderly welfare system and second, that it has a successful criminal justice system. Both of these myths reinforce a social imaginary where cultural values of family and community harmony make extensive state intervention unnecessary. Yet not only are both of these myths and their arguments deeply flawed, but ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Fragile Resonance

    Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England

    by Jason Danely ...
    Fragile Resonance describes the paths carers take as they make meaning of their experiences and find a sense of moral purpose to sustain them and guide their decisions. When a parent or partner becomes frail or disabled, often a family member assumes responsibility for their care. But family care is a physically and emotionally exhausting undertaking. Carers experience moments of profound ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Transitions and Transformations

    Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

    Edited by Caitrin Lynch, Jason Danely ...
    Series Book 1 - Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
    Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Transitions and Transformations

    Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

    Edited by Jason Danely, Caitrin Lynch ...
    Series Book 1 - Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
    Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $21.99 USD

  • Aging and Loss

    Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan

    by Jason Danely ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    By 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewhere in Asia and around the world. What can we learn from a study of the aging population of Japan and how can these findings inform a path forward for the elderly, their families, and for policy makers?Based on nearly a decade of research, Aging and Loss examines how the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession

    Global Perspectives

    by Sarah Lamb, Jessica Robbins-Ruszkowski, Anna Corwin, Toni Calasanti, Neal King, Abigail Brooks, Imani Woody, Emily Wentzell, Elana Buch, Janelle S. Taylor0, Aske Juul Lassen1, Astrid Pernille Jespersen2, Jason Danely3, Judith Farquhar4, Qicheng Zhang5, Janet McIntosh6, Annette Leibing7, Meika Loe8 ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it also rests on a deep ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • Oppression and the Body

    Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

    Edited by Christine Caldwell, Lucia Bennett Leighton ...
    A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodiesAsserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization. In a culture where bodies of people who are brown, black, female, ... Read more

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  • Happiness and the Good Life in Japan

    Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Barbara Holthus ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    Contemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, stalemating the political establishment and generating alternative lifestyles and possibilities of the self. Amongst this nascent change, Japanese society is confronted with new challenges to answer the fundamental question of how to live a good life of meaning, purpose and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Critical Pedagogy for Healing

    Paths Beyond "Wellness," Toward a Soul Revival of Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Professor Tricia Kress, Christopher Emdin, Dr. Robert Lake ...
    This is the first book to explicitly link healing and wellness practices with critical pedagogy. Bringing together scholars from Brazil, Canada, Malta and the USA, the chapters combine critical pedagogy and social justice education to reorient the conversation around wellness in teaching and learning. Working against white Eurocentric narratives of wellness in schools which focus on the symptoms, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Fragile Kinships

    Child Welfare and Well-Being in Japan

    by Kathryn E. Goldfarb ...
    In Fragile Kinships**, Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being.** This is true across the world, as it is in Japan. Policymakers, caregivers, and people with experience in state care endeavor to imagine—and implement—child welfare systems that are genuinely supportive. Yet despite these efforts, social welfare systems too often produce people who are ... Read more

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  • Labeling

    Pedagogy and Politics

    Edited by Paul Kihn, Glenn Hudak ...
    A diverse group of contributors, from the fields of education, psychology, philosophy and cultural studies, explore the social phenomenon of labeling. The authors question the nature of labeling, its contexts and processes, looking in particular at its prescriptive and confining effects. The assumption that labels are neutral and applied neutrally is rejected as the political nature of labeling is ... Read more

    $47.99 USD