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AGEING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Spaces and practices of care

Edited by

Jaco Hoffman and Katrien Pype

First published in Great Britain in 2016 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 1-9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK Tel +44 (0)117 954 5940 e-mail

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ISBN 978-1-4473-2525-3 hardcover

ISBN 978-1-4473-2528-4 ePub

ISBN 978-1-4473-2529-1 Mobi

The right of Jaco Hoffman and Katrien Pype to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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To several pioneers of research on ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Nana Araba Apt, Maria Cattell, Monica Ferreira,
Morag Insley, Valerie Mller and Sjaak van der Geest.

Contents

Jaco Hoffman and Katrien Pype

Sjaak van der Geest

Katrien Pype

Peter van Eeuwijk

Brigit Obrist

Emily Freeman

Josien de Klerk

Jaco Hoffman

Andries Baart

Lists of photos, figures and tables

Photos

Dolls made by an indigent and sold by her on the pavement in front of the retirement home next to small, non-perishable items such as batteries, matches and pens (Katrien Pype, January 2013)

A rare mural painting orienting towards a retirement home (Katrien Pype, January 2013)

Figures

The relations of the discursive formations

Four discourses in this volume

Tables

Care arrangements with older people as major caregivers for elderly care-receivers in Tanzania

Main activities of care provided by old caregivers for aged care-receivers in Tanzania

Extended care arrangements in critical health situations in Tanzania (in households with a major older caregiver)

The six discursive formations in this volume

Notes on contributors

Andries Baart, Professor emeritus, Ethics of Care and Chair, Presence and Care. Since 1991 he had full professorships at several universities in the Netherlands and currently is Extraordinary Professor, Optentia Research Focus Area, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, South Africa. He is the father of the theory of presence and undertakes intensive field, theoretical and foundational research in the broad area of care, wellbeing and service provision. In this regard, his research particularly focuses on the socially vulnerable and the ethics of care.

Josien de Klerk, Lecturer (global public health), Leiden University College, The Hague. Josien has worked extensively on ageing in the era of AIDS in Kenya and Tanzania, looking at informal care, including self-care of both affected and infected older people in rural and urban settings. Her fieldwork is the basis of critical analysis of the politics around ageing and care in the treatment-dominated AIDS landscape in East Africa.

Emily Freeman, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics (UK) and Political Science as well as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Optentia Research Focus Area, NorthWest University, Vaal Triangle Campus (South Africa). Emilys research focuses on ageing, care and sexual health in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has worked extensively on HIV in older age in Malawi and her current research considers new possibilities for formal care in older age across the region. A recent important publication is one with E Coast in 2014, Sex in older age in rural Malawi, which was published in Ageing and Society.

Jaco Hoffman, Associate Professor, Optentia Research Focus Area, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus (South Africa), and James Martin Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford (UK) where he coordinates the African Research on Ageing Network (AFRAN). He is also Honorary Research Fellow at The Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Jacos research particularly focuses on ageing through the life-course and intergenerational dynamics in the context of poverty and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. A related publication is an article with Isabella Aboderin in the Canadian Journal of Aging (2015) on Families, Intergenerational Bonds, and Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Brigit Obrist, Professor of Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland, and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Brigit currently leads a medical anthropology research group in the fields of migration and urban health, sexual and reproductive health, ageing and health, media and health, addressing infectious, non-communicable as well as neglected diseases. A recent publication is, Living the City in Africa, which she edited with Veit Arlt and Elisio Macamo.

Katrien Pype, Assistant Professor, Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), and Birmingham Fellow, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham (UK). Katriens main research interests are popular culture and technology and society interactions which led to a postdoctoral research project on how older people live in Kinshasa a heavily mass-mediated urban environment. Several articles (in among others, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology; and Journal of African Cultural Studies, both 2017) and book chapters (in Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users, co-edited by W. Willems and W. Mano, Routledge, 2016) are forthcoming.

Sjaak van der Geest, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, and visiting professor at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Gulu University, Uganda. Sjaaks fieldwork includes a wide variety of subjects, for example, sexual relationships and birth control, the use and distribution of medicines, popular song texts, meanings of growing old. He has written extensively, has been editor of numerous books and also founded the journal

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