Counter-Demography

Situated Caring for the Aged in Andean Peru

Bibliographic Data

ID4564334
AuthorsJ B Leinaweaver (0000-0002-9178-7624, Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume41
Issue6-7
Pages630-644
Publication date2022-10-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2021.1988595
PMID34696647
OpenAlexW3210824140
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited44

I argue that non-demographers engage in "counter-demography" - repurposing demographic tools as they interpret and manage local, individual expressions of complex population-level issues. I explore this through a focus on population aging in Peru. Like many developing countries, Peru is in a delicate demographic position where sometimes violent efforts to reduce fertility, and broader processes of modernization and education, have resulted in population aging. In the urban Andes, professional aging-workers (those who labor to support aging individuals) informally reference statistics and data visualizations to highlight their own complex and holistic efforts to support aging people on the ground

Demographic change · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Modernization theory · Population · Population ageing · Repurposing · Situated · Sociology · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies

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