In concert with lengthening life spans, emerging forms of care in later life reflect complex and
diverse social changes. Embracing a polysemic understanding of care as simultaneously …

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in
its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes …

Care is a slippery word. Any attempt to define it will be exceeded by its multivocality in
everyday and scholarly use. In its enactment, care is both necessary to the fabric of …

This widely researched study demonstrates convincingly that neither grandiose promises
nor nightmare scenarios have much to do with actual care practices employing telecare …

Abstract 'Materialities of care'is outlined as a heuristic device for making visible the mundane
and often unnoticed aspects of material culture within health and social care contexts, and …

In their efforts to understand why and how farmers adopt new technologies, techniques and
programmes, rural sociologists and geographers have typically focused on the social and …

As the digital becomes increasingly entwined within everyday life, ethnography's value as a
key methodological and analytical approach to understand the ways in which digital media …

Science and technology studies concerned with the study of lay influence on the sciences
usually analyze either the political or the normative epistemological consequences of lay …

Robots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care
robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, rising demand for eldercare …

Although increasingly debated in public, scholarly discourses on care remain frag-mented.
This is not only due to the scientific division of labor, but also to different national research …