Eldercare in South Africa: Dreaming of a White Paper Christmas
About a year ago around Christmas, South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi and ANC colleagues released the anticipated White […]
(Mis)Fortune of ageing
It’s really bad with him. There are metastases in his head. He can stay at home tonight, and tomorrow night
Time-ing Out of Old Age with Marc Augé
I have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past
A Story of Two Stones
On a cold December day in 1995, after finishing my daily studies as a junior high school student, I was
Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
When the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple
LIVING FICTIONS
The theme of “living fictions” comes from a presentation I gave at a recent meeting of the EASA Anthropology of
Migrant Deaths: Data, Trends and Possible Causes
In a recent article published at Allegra, Ferruccio Pastore addresses some of the problems related to counting migrant deaths in
#Review: Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age – REDUX
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent
Lessons from a King
For El Señor On January 8 I followed – along with perhaps most of the world’s population connected to the net –
Children and Borders
In September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the