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The Long Road to Becoming a Farmer in Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia
This chapter presents the trajectories of young men and women into farming and is based on the authors’ research in two villages in Kebumen Regency,...
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“I Had to Bear This Burden”: Youth Transcending Constraints to Become Farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India
In the context of a wider trend in India of young people’s reluctance to pursue farming as an occupation, the experience of young farmers in Madhya...
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Pluriactive and Plurilocal: Young People’s Pathways Out of and into Farming in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
In this chapter we explore young people’s spatial and sectoral mobility, specifically their trajectories out of and into farming, in the Javanese...
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Youth and Agriculture in Indonesia
This chapter reflects on the changing place of young men and women in Indonesian agriculture, based on available secondary sources and some...
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Young Farmers’ Difficulties and Adaptations in Agriculture: A Case Study from a Mountainous Town in Sichuan Province, Southwest China
The unprecedented rural labour migration in China has resulted in the transformation of rural areas and the entire rural society. Migrant workers...
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Conclusion: Youth Aspirations, Trajectories, and Farming Futures
This book commenced with a question of global importance: in a world in which farming populations are ageing, who is going to provide the planet’s...
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First Level: The Anatomy of the Disinformation Message Between Narratives and Adopted Strategies
To analyze the complexity of disinformation phenomenon on social media platforms, the analysis on the Italian case was conducted by building a...
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Therapeutic Gardening in Incarcerated Settings in the USA
This chapter offers a snapshot of existing facilitated therapeutic horticultural initiatives in incarcerated settings in the USA and highlights the...
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H2H Management: Putting Trust and Brand in Focus
In the digital age, H2H marketing prioritizes trust through customer-centricity, top-notch service, agility, and empathy, boosting loyalty,...
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I (Still) Need a Hero: Civilians, Society and the Continuing Need for Military Heroism and Heroes
The following chapter examines post-heroic society’s perception of military heroes. Using the Israeli case, this chapter argues that despite the...
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Military Heroism in Germany: A Contested and Ever-Changing Concept
In Germany, the concept of the (military) hero has been heavily burdened in particular by the crimes of the Hitler regime and subsequently tabooed...
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The Morale Component of the Russia–Ukraine War
TheRussia Ukraine War 2022 Russia–Ukraine WarJapan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) raisesPrime Minister Shigeru Yoshida (1878-1967) fundamental questions...
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Han Solo and Professor Moriarty—What Interviewing Soldiers Taught Me About Heroism
In interviews with Danish combat soldiers, deployed to AfghanistanAfghanistan, I learned that the term “hero” can also be used in a negative sense,...
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Canada’s Military and the Post-heroic Condition
This chapter is using an institutional theoryInstitutional theory approach to explore how heroismHeroism and its mobilizing function operated during...
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Between Heroization and Victimization. Assessing Empirical Evidence of Representations of Veterans in a Pre- and Post-heroic Era
Although the underlying reasons for veteranVeterans-hero and veteranVeterans-victim relationships have been theoretically and empirically examined,...
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Conclusion: Toward a Biography of Aging
The notion of biography is central to understanding people’s meanings and experiences of mind and body relevant to the lifecourse. Sociologists such...
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Postmodern Aging, Culture and Possibilities for the Aging Body
In this chapter, it is important to interrogate the role of the body so that one can move away from the modernist biomedical approach, which locates...
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Foucault and the Aging Subject
The subject matter of this final chapter is the development of an understanding of aging and professional power over the past 50 years, using...