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The 29th October 2024 is the International Day of Care and Support! As the United Nations explains, “Care work, both paid and unpaid, is crucial to the future of decent work. Growing populations, ageing societies, changing families, women\u2019s secondary status in labour markets and shortcomings in social policies demand urgent action on the organization of care work from governments, employers, trade unions and individual citizens.” If not adequately addressed, current deficits in care service provision and its quality will create a severe and unsustainable global care crisis and increase gender inequalities at work.<\/em>“. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more on the Care Economy and the International Day of Care and Support on UN’s page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We would like to highlight four of our book series: The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession<\/a>, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a>, New Directions in Anthropology<\/a>, and Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a>. For more details on these series, scroll down to the second section of this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first section of our blog is a collection of our latest titles relating to the studies of care and support, including the more recent books from the highlighted series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Latest Berghahn books in the study of care and support<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Cecilia Sem Obeng and Samuel Gyasi Obeng<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis book demonstrates that the anthropological approach is uniquely suited to uncovering how people live their lives and see their world without imposing judgment\u2026<\/em> Recommended.\u201d \u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 12, Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Care in a Time of Humanitarianism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Arzoo Osanloo & Cabeiri deBergh Robinson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis volume is a timely and seminal contribution to understanding our time when humanitarian crisis unfolds in myriad forms in various sites. The perspectives on humanitarianism from the global South featured in this volume are both rich in their ethnographic grounding and multi-faceted in the analytical insights.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Jiazhi Fengjiang<\/strong>, University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 5, Humanitarianism and Security<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Politics of Relations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andr\u00e9 Thiemann<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a very impressive book. The analysis is developed in sustained, thoughtful and detailed engagement with a very broad range of existing literature.<\/em> \u2022 Stef Jansen<\/strong>, University of Sarajevo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 49, EASA Series<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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State Intimacies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva Fiks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSterilization \u2018camps\u2019 have earned a bad press in India \u2013 and rightly so. Yet, as Eva Fiks demonstrates in her elegant intervention, coercion is entangled with care for village women contending with the reproductive chronicity that is integral to their daily lives.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Patricia Jeffery<\/strong>, Professor Emerita, University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 4, Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fragile Futures<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helle Samuelsen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a theoretically solid book presenting unique data and perspectives on survival strategies in a broad meaning. The focus is on the most marginalized populations of the world, outlining local, long-term trajectories of their dealing with challenges and uncertainties.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 J\u00f3n\u00edna Einarsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, University of Iceland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 22, Epistemologies of Healing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Voices of Long-Term Care Workers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrea Freidus and Dena Shenk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe book provides remarkable insights into the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on front-line workers in North Carolina who care for the residential elderly (and) uses an excellent combination of ethnographic and epidemiological methods to provide in-depth qualitative insights while contextualized by the larger quantitative world of disease transmission.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Linda M. Whiteford<\/strong>, University of South Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 10, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Male Childlessness \u2013 a Life Course Disrupted<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robin A. Hadley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this book Hadley lays bare the complex contexts surrounding aging and male childlessness in particular in a powerfully emotive and academically rigorous manner. The book contains a powerful message to those in academia and policymakers and institutional stakeholders, of the urgent need to acknowledge this structurally excluded population. The book is of interest not only to gerontologists but anthropologists, demographers, embryologists, psychologists, sociologists, practitioners in health and care, counsellors, social workers and students at all levels and the general public.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 British Society of Gerontology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 48, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Translocal Care across Kosovo\u2019s Borders<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carolin Leutloff-Grandits<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis book is based on careful and in-depth ethnographic research, and it expertly embeds its findings in patterns on broader historical and geographical scales. The book displays all the hallmarks of high-quality anthropological research.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Stef Jansen<\/strong>, University of Sarajevo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 8, Anthropology of Europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At Home in a Nursing Home<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Rong Yang Zhang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a really good, in fact vital, contribution to our understanding of aged care. This is an opinion enhanced in part by the political context, at least in Australia, in which aged care is being discussed. In this country, which has an aging population and inadequate quality and quantity of aged care facilities, an opportunity exists to ask different kinds of questions \u2013 one of which might be about being at home in an institutional home\u201d.<\/em> \u2022 Simone Dennis<\/strong>, Universit\u00e0 di Bologna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 9, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migration and Health<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Nadia El-Shaarawi and St\u00e9phanie Larchanch\u00e9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a welcome and timely addition to the scholarly literature on migration and health.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Charles Watters<\/strong>, University of Sussex<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 10, Rethinking Biosocial Anthropology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beyond Filial Piety<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore and Hong Zhang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a fascinating book which inspires us with new insights and deep thoughts. Through the description of the subjective practice of caregiving and the discourse of positive aging, the book has in fact come back to the essence of filial piety, focusing on subjectivity, dignity, love, responsibility, harmony and continuity in families, communities and the state, which is beyond social transformations and challenges of time.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Asian Journal of Social Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 6, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Care across Distance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Azra Hromad\u017ei\u0107 and Monika Palmberger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOverall, this volume offers valuable empirical and theoretical contributions to the anthropology of care and transnational families. It is highly recommended reading for students and scholars seeking insights into novel care practices and care relations in this fast-changing field.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 International Journal of Care and Caring<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 4, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Patient Multiple<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Taee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis book is a welcome pioneering ethnography based on case studies that demonstrate a clear understanding of the way in which public health care services in Bhutan integrate both biomedical and \u2019traditional\u2019 medicine.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Mona Schrempf<\/strong>, Free University, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 4, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Berghahn Books Series with titles on the study of care<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Robbie Davis-Floyd<\/strong> PhD, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and Senior Advisor to the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, is a well-known medical\/reproductive anthropologist and international speaker and researcher in transformational models in childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and reproduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashish Premkumar<\/strong>MD is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, as well as a maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist practicing at the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Illinois. He is also a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at The Graduate School at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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Obstetricians are the primary drivers of the research on and the implementation of interventions in the birth process that have long been the subjects of anthropological critiques. In many countries, they are also primary drivers of violence, disrespect, and abuse during the perinatal period. Yet there is little social science literature on obstetricians themselves, their educational processes, and their personal rationales for their practices. Thus, this dearth of social science literature on obstetricians constitutes a huge gap waiting to be filled. These ground-breaking edited collections seek to fill that gap by officially creating an \u201canthropology of obstetrics and obstetricians\u201d across countries and cultures\u2014including biopolitical and professional cultures\u2014so that a broad and deep understanding of these maternity care providers and their practices, ideologies, motivations, and diversities can be achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Obstetricians Speak<\/a>: On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics<\/a>: Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians\u2019 Practices<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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General Editors: Soraya Tremayne<\/strong>, Founding Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group and Research Affiliate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford<\/em>, Marcia C. Inhorn<\/strong>, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University<\/em>, and Philip Kreager<\/strong>, Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, and Research Affiliate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Understanding the complex and multifaceted issue of human reproduction has been, and remains, of great interest both to academics and practitioners. This series includes studies by specialists in the field of social, cultural, medical, and biological anthropology, medical demography, psychology, and development studies. Current debates and issues of global relevance on the changing dynamics of fertility, human reproduction and sexuality are addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Privileges of Birth<\/a>: Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa<\/strong> by Jennifer J. M. Rogerson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Reconceiving Muslim Men<\/a>: Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times<\/strong>, edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Patient-Centred IVF<\/a>: Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic<\/strong> by Trudie Gerrits<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ageing Without Children<\/a>: European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks<\/strong>, edited by Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schr\u00f6der-Butterfill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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New Directions in Anthropology<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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General Editor: Jacqueline Waldren (1937-2021)<\/strong>, was Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University and Director, Deia Archaeological Museum and Research Centre, Mallorca.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migration, modernization, technology, tourism, and global communication have had dynamic effects on group identities, social values and conceptions of space, place, and politics. This series features new and innovative ethnographic studies concerned with these processes of change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Living Before Dying<\/a>: Imagining and Remembering Home<\/strong> by Janette Davies<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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General Editor: Jay Sokolovsky<\/strong>, University of South Florida St. Petersburg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published by Berghahn Books under the auspices of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology (AAGE)<\/a> and the American Anthropological Association<\/a> Interest Group on Aging and the Life Course.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consequences of aging will influence most areas of contemporary life around the globe, from the makeup of households and communities and systems of care to attitudes toward health, disability and life\u2019s end. Engaging a cross-cultural framework, this series publishes monographs and collected works that examine these widespread transformations with a perspective on the entire life course and a particular focus on mid\/late adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unforgotten<\/a>: Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India<\/strong> by Bianca Brijnath<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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