Jessica C Robbins
Biographic Data
| ID | 367312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica C Robbins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica C |
| FAMILY NAME | Robbins |
| SIGNATURE | ROBBINS J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7255-3286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
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 methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Aging Societies, Civil Societies, and the Role of the Past: Active Aging beyond Demography in Contemporary Poland
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. Like other countries in Europe, Poland’s population is growing older, because of a combination of increasing life expectancies and decreasing birth rates. Such demographic change poses challenges for policy makers, who often understand population aging to put strain on social-s…
Temporal aspects of wellbeing in later life: Gardening among older African Americans in Detroit
Gardening has well-established physical, social and emotional benefits for older adults in varied circumstances. In Detroit, Michigan (United States of America), as in many cities, policy makers, funders, researchers, community organisations and residents regard gardening as a means of transforming bodies, persons, communities, cities and broader polities. We draw on ethnographic research conducted during one gardening season with 27 older Africa…
Towards an Inclusive Anthropology of Aging
Given anthropology’s disciplinary commitment to diversity and openness, studying cultural formations that are based on exclusion and discrimination can pose epistemologicalchallenges. Such issues are at the heart of longstanding disciplinary debates about cultural and moral relativism, incommensurability, and multiple forms of rationality. Thisessay explores how these issues have emerged during long-term ethnographic research on aging in Poland a…
Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
Expanding Personhood beyond Remembered Selves: The Sociality of Memory at an Alzheimer's Center in Poland
Examining the social and processual dimensions of personhood can transform ethnographic and clinical understandings of "person-centered care" in dementia care specifically and in medicine more generally. Ethnographic research among people with early-stage Alzheimer's disease in a day center in Poznań, Poland, shows that practices of remembering involving collective memory can sustain personhood and foster ties of relatedness among people with dem…
Aging
Aging is a rich topic of inquiry for anthropologists. However, it is only since the mid‐twentieth century that aging has gained popularity as a distinct topic of research within the discipline. The term is used in two ways: first, to refer to the phase of life known as old age and, second, to refer to the lifelong process of growing older. The robust literature on aging in anthropology considers the phenomenon in its chronological, biological, an…
Sustaining and Stimulating Europeanist Anthropology
Aging, Memory and Personhood in Poland
Expanding Personhood beyond Remembered Selves: The Sociality of Memory at an Alzheimer's Center in Poland
Examining the social and processual dimensions of personhood can transform ethnographic and clinical understandings of "person-centered care" in dementia care specifically and in medicine more generally. Ethnographic research among people with early-stage Alzheimer's disease in a day center in Poznań, Poland, shows that practices of remembering involving collective memory can sustain personhood and foster ties of relatedness among people with dem…
Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
Temporal aspects of wellbeing in later life: Gardening among older African Americans in Detroit
Gardening has well-established physical, social and emotional benefits for older adults in varied circumstances. In Detroit, Michigan (United States of America), as in many cities, policy makers, funders, researchers, community organisations and residents regard gardening as a means of transforming bodies, persons, communities, cities and broader polities. We draw on ethnographic research conducted during one gardening season with 27 older Africa…
Aging Societies, Civil Societies, and the Role of the Past: Active Aging beyond Demography in Contemporary Poland
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. Like other countries in Europe, Poland’s population is growing older, because of a combination of increasing life expectancies and decreasing birth rates. Such demographic change poses challenges for policy makers, who often understand population aging to put strain on social-s…
Aging, Memory and Personhood in Poland
Aging, Memory and Personhood in Poland
Sustaining and Stimulating Europeanist Anthropology
Aging
Aging is a rich topic of inquiry for anthropologists. However, it is only since the mid‐twentieth century that aging has gained popularity as a distinct topic of research within the discipline. The term is used in two ways: first, to refer to the phase of life known as old age and, second, to refer to the lifelong process of growing older. The robust literature on aging in anthropology considers the phenomenon in its chronological, biological, an…
Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
Expanding Personhood beyond Remembered Selves: The Sociality of Memory at an Alzheimer's Center in Poland
Examining the social and processual dimensions of personhood can transform ethnographic and clinical understandings of "person-centered care" in dementia care specifically and in medicine more generally. Ethnographic research among people with early-stage Alzheimer's disease in a day center in Poznań, Poland, shows that practices of remembering involving collective memory can sustain personhood and foster ties of relatedness among people with dem…
Aging Societies, Civil Societies, and the Role of the Past: Active Aging beyond Demography in Contemporary Poland
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. Like other countries in Europe, Poland’s population is growing older, because of a combination of increasing life expectancies and decreasing birth rates. Such demographic change poses challenges for policy makers, who often understand population aging to put strain on social-s…
Temporal aspects of wellbeing in later life: Gardening among older African Americans in Detroit
Gardening has well-established physical, social and emotional benefits for older adults in varied circumstances. In Detroit, Michigan (United States of America), as in many cities, policy makers, funders, researchers, community organisations and residents regard gardening as a means of transforming bodies, persons, communities, cities and broader polities. We draw on ethnographic research conducted during one gardening season with 27 older Africa…
Towards an Inclusive Anthropology of Aging
Given anthropology’s disciplinary commitment to diversity and openness, studying cultural formations that are based on exclusion and discrimination can pose epistemologicalchallenges. Such issues are at the heart of longstanding disciplinary debates about cultural and moral relativism, incommensurability, and multiple forms of rationality. Thisessay explores how these issues have emerged during long-term ethnographic research on aging in Poland a…
Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
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 methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Personhood (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)