Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.320208
Claudia Liebelt
Pnina Werbner was a British social anthropologist, a brilliant thinker and an engaged intellectual renowned for her prolific contributions to debates on Sufi Islam, multiculturalism and diaspora, as well as urban and legal anthropology. In January 2023, she died unexpectedly during a holiday with her husband, the anthropologist Richard Werbner.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.320206
Benjamin Bowles
Abstract Itinerant boat dwellers (boaters) in London and South East England speak about many internal divisions within the community. ‘Dirty boaters’ are contrasted with ‘shiny boaters’; ‘yuppies’ and ‘hipsters’ are contrasted ‘oldtimers,’ ‘crusties’ or ‘pirates’. For many, be they boaters, outsiders or other writers, these distinctions have something to do with class background. However, my ethnographic research with the boaters shows that, although class background can be thought to be a marker of how hard or easy one may find it to become a boater, the internal divisions that are found on the waterways have more to do with processes of socialisation. What matter (and what divide boaters) are the willingness and ability, or lack therein, to join a community of practice on the waterways and to learn the skills and ethics that are of value to boaters in their community of mutual support.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.320205
Cody Rodriguez
Abstract As an early piece of digital ethnographic work, this article aims to convey an ambience for full-time vanlifers who are supposedly ‘living the dream’ in Europe. A reflection of the causes and developments of the #vanlife movement sets the foundation for discussing overregulation of restrictions on vanlifers in England, which is juxtaposed to the joy of thriving nomadically in continental Europe. The resulting discussions reveal that for some members of the vanlife community, this alternative lifestyle is embraced to attain their own sense of personal autonomy, ontological security and overall higher quality of life in a neoliberal late-stage capitalistic society that has left far too many people alienated and struggling to survive the nightmare of economic uncertainty.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.320201
Tomás Sánchez Criado
Ageing is not what it used to be. Even if this is a world-wide trend (Lamb 2015), in what might be called Euro-America – a conceptual project, beyond a peculiar set of infrastructural modes of sociality, engaged in a developmentalist drive – the processes of growing old have indeed turned in the last decades into (i) the object of scrutiny of new health disciplines: dissecting and intervening the phenomenon of ageing; (ii) the target of a ‘grey’ market segment developing a wide variety of services and products, as well as into (iii) matters of concern and policy-making, developing these health and market agendas further by promoting fit lifestyles according to ‘active ageing’ agendas, producing interesting governmental subdivisions (‘young old’, ‘old old’, ‘third age’ or ‘fourth age’) having both embodied and economic effects (Lassen and Moreira 2014).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.320204
Emelie Larsson, Jenny Ingridsdotter
Abstract The article explores ‘off the grid’ representations in social media, with a focus on how these representations reproduce imaginaries of nature, place and gender. The analysis material consists of content produced by three influencers who left urban life for a simpler lifestyle in northern Sweden. We find that the social media content draws on numerous ideals: neoliberal ideals on digital entrepreneurship, anti-capitalist ideals on ‘escaping’ modern consumerist society and romantic (sometimes colonial) envisioning of northern Sweden as wild and empty land. We conclude that the ‘off grid’ social media representations and the various ideals they incorporate should be understood as expressions of a contemporary era of neoliberal romanticism: a trend that exists both online and offline.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.320203
Jonathan Atari, Jackie Feldman
Abstract Can long-distance hiking present an alternative to the mechanisation, uncertainty and alienation of contemporary European life? Through interviews with hikers on the Via Alpina in the European Alps, we explore this question, applying Ning Wang's insights on tourism as exemplifying the ambivalence of modernity. Modern technologies increase communications, mobility and efficiency, while enabling leisure space for tourism. Via Alpina hikers do not ‘opt out’ of the social frameworks governed by Logos modernity but undertake solitary walking in search of an intrapersonal existential authenticity by reconnecting with nature, the body and an alternative experience of time. The Logos-directed elements of planning and navigating through digital devices are limited to the essential required to progress on the path and enable them to inhabit smooth time, free of the restrictive syncopations of work schedules and pressing obligations. Thus, hikers harness Logos modernity to enhance the Eros space of sensuality and emotional release. Through knowledge learned along the way, hikers strive for a positive, responsible freedom that broadens their sense of being in the world.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.032523of1
Maryam Pirdehghan
The significance of the state of the water of the sacred Lake Baikal in Buryat Indigenous society on Olkhon Island is so great that it is accompanied by a series of canons. These are rooted in certain folk narratives that define the lake as the giver of life, saviour, and maker of meanings. However, environmental narratives produced by the Russian media regarding ecological challenges, influenced by the government’s shaky environmental policies, have presented Baikal as shifting from being a centre of good to a centre of evil. This image has resulted in a transformation of the normative universe among Olkhon’s Buryats, leaving them with a semantic change in their religious life and diminishing the sense of responsibility in Buryat society towards the lake.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.320105
A. Wanka
This article focuses on the co-constitution of the home and age(ing) in the retirement transition, that is, how the experiences of home change in the transition from work to retirement, and how the experiences of retiring change with transformations of the home. The article first outlines current literature on transitions in later life and the home. Subsequently, it presents data from the project ‘Doing Retiring’ along three lines of inquiry: meanings, practices and negotiations of and within the home, and how they change across the retirement transition. Finally, it discusses implications of understanding the transition from work to retirement and the home as not merely related, but co-constitutive. It concludes by suggesting a ‘doing’ approach to life course transitions which focuses on socio-material practices and thus offers a prominent place in transition research to spatiality, materiality and processuality.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.320107
Melanie Lovatt
The body is a site on which ageing occurs and is also the means by which we navigate and experience a material world. As our bodies change as we age, so too do our experiences of (and interactions with) our material environment. This article presents findings from an ethnographic study of the experiences of everyday life among residents of an older people's home in northern England. I draw on the concept of the ‘embodied life course’ (Marshall and Katz 2012) to argue that residents’ feelings about being and becoming at home were shaped by their embodied, temporal and socio-material experiences throughout their lives, and that these experiences continued throughout their time in the residential home.
身体是衰老发生的地方，也是我们导航和体验物质世界的方式。随着年龄的增长，我们的身体会发生变化，我们对物质环境的体验(以及与物质环境的互动)也会发生变化。这篇文章介绍了一项民族志研究的结果，研究对象是英格兰北部一家老年人之家的居民，他们的日常生活经历。我借鉴了“具体化的生命历程”(Marshall and Katz 2012)的概念，认为居民对在家的感受是由他们一生中具体化的、暂时的和社会物质的经历塑造的，这些经历贯穿了他们在住宅中的整个时间。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2023.320106
Tamar Amiri-Savitzky, M. Visse, T. Satink, A. Swinnen
Creative leisure occupations, such as arts and crafts, can give rise to meaningfulness. To date, much of what is known about meaningful occupations relates to verbalised meanings. This article assumes a sensory gaze to examine the tangible creative leisure occupations of three women in midlife. A sensory ethnographic approach comprising participant observation, a reflexive ethnography diary, and photo elicitation was augmented by semi-structured interviews, revealing the ways that meaningfulness is felt and sensed in the body through emplaced interactions with nonhuman elements: materials, objects, space and time. The findings provide fresh insights into embodied and emplaced experiences of meaningfulness in occupation in the context of meaningful ageing, illustrating how meaningfulness in occupation goes beyond what can be experienced or expressed in words, spanning both tangible and intangible themes.
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