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Thinking from Elsewhere Ser.: Imagistic Care : Growing Old in a Precarious World by Cheryl Mattingly (2022, Hardcover)
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PublisherFordham University Press
ISBN-100823299643
ISBN-139780823299645
eBay Product ID (ePID)3050433177
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameImagistic Care : Growing Old in a Precarious World
SubjectSociology / General, Criticism & Theory, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History
Publication Year2022
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Social Science, Medical
AuthorCheryl Mattingly
SeriesThinking from Elsewhere Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-017269
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThe essays in this book present sensitive, thoughtfully rendered comparative ethnographies of care in late life. These ethnographies span a remarkable geographic and contextual range, from a dementia ward in Denmark, to homes of older African Americans in Los Angeles, to apartments in Kyrgyzstan, to villages in Uganda. Together, they comprise a stunningly varied array of experiences of care in later life 'in contexts where aging is marked by profound bodily or social precarity.' With societies around the world growing proportionally older, these careful ethnographically grounded analyses of care in late life are of utmost importance both to anthropology and to society. ---Jessica Robbins, Wayne State University, Taking us into the vast and wild realms that lie beyond our immediately given everyday existence, this courageous collection offers new and original perspectives on processes of aging. Exploring shadowy worlds of dreams and memories, of ghosts and specters, of pasts that refuse to let people go, the book is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of imagistic scholarship. ---Tine M. Gammeltoft, University of Copenhagen, "The essays in this book present sensitive, thoughtfully rendered comparative ethnographies of care in late life. These ethnographies span a remarkable geographic and contextual range, from a dementia ward in Denmark, to homes of older African Americans in Los Angeles, to apartments in Kyrgyzstan, to villages in Uganda. Together, they comprise a stunningly varied array of experiences of care in later life 'in contexts where aging is marked by profound bodily or social precarity.' The forms of precarity documented here range widely, including extreme physical debility, dementia, poverty, and isolation. With societies around the world growing proportionally older, these careful ethnographically grounded analyses of care in late life are of utmost importance both to anthropology and to society." ---Jessica Robbins, Wayne State University,, "Taking us into the vast and wild realms that lie beyond our immediately given everyday existence, this courageous collection offers new and original perspectives on processes of aging. Exploring shadowy worlds of dreams and memories, of ghosts and specters, of pasts that refuse to let people go, the book is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of imagistic scholarship." ---Tine M. Gammeltoft, University of Copenhagen,, "The essays in this book present sensitive, thoughtfully rendered comparative ethnographies of care in late life. These ethnographies span a remarkable geographic and contextual range, from a dementia ward in Denmark, to homes of older African Americans in Los Angeles, to apartments in Kyrgyzstan, to villages in Uganda. Together, they comprise a stunningly varied array of experiences of care in later life 'in contexts where aging is marked by profound bodily or social precarity.' With societies around the world growing proportionally older, these careful ethnographically grounded analyses of care in late life are of utmost importance both to anthropology and to society." ---Jessica Robbins, Wayne State University,, "The essays in this book present sensitive, thoughtfully rendered comparative ethnographies of care in late life. These ethnographies span a remarkable geographic and contextual range, from a dementia ward in Denmark, to homes of older African Americans in Los Angeles, to apartments in Kyrgyzstan, to villages in Uganda. Together, they comprise a stunningly varied array of experiences of care in later life 'in contexts where aging is marked by profound bodily or social precarity.' With societies around the world growing proportionally older, these careful ethnographically grounded analyses of care in late life are of utmost importance both to anthropology and to society." ---Jessica Robbins, Wayne State University, Taking us into the vast and wild realms that lie beyond our immediately given everyday existence, this courageous collection offers new and original perspectives on processes of aging. Exploring shadowy worlds of dreams and memories, of ghosts and specters, of pasts that refuse to let people go, the book is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of imagistic scholarship. ---Tine Gammeltoft, University of Copenhagen,, "Taking us into the vast and wild realms that lie beyond our immediately given everyday existence, this courageous collection offers new and original perspectives on processes of aging. Exploring shadowy worlds of dreams and memories, of ghosts and specters, of pasts that refuse to let people go, the book is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of imagistic scholarship." ---Tine M. Gammeltoft, University of Copenhagen
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal362.6
Table Of ContentForeword Lisa Stevenson vii Introduction: Imagistic Inquiries: Old Age, Intimate Others, and Care Lone Grøn and Cheryl Mattingly 1 The Gift: An Imagistic Critical Phenomenology Cheryl Mattingly 31 Virtuous Aging in Uncanny Moral Worlds: Being Old and Kyrgyz in the Absence of the Young Maria Louw 59 "Yeah . . . Yeah": Imagistic Signatures and Responsive Events in a Danish Dementia Ward Lone Grøn 83 On the Silent Anarchy of Intimacy: Images of Alterity, Openness, and Sociality in Life with Dementia Rasmus Dyring 109 Together Apart: Fence Work in Landscapes of Relationality, Old Age, and Care in the Ik Mountains Lotte Meinert 137 Imagining Self and Other: Carers, TV, and Touch Harmandeep Kaur Gill 163 Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte 187 The Staircase: The Ethics of "Transcendence and Height" in Welfare Care Helle Sofie Wentzer 209 The Drawing Underneath Maria Speyer 229 Afterword: These Images Burn Robert Desjarlais 251 List of Contributors 261 Index 265
SynopsisImagistic Care explores ethnographically how the images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and practices of care in old age? And how can imagistic inquiries offer grounds for critique? Cutting between ethnography, phenomenology and art, this volume offers a powerful contribution to understandings of growing old. The images created in words and drawings are used to complicate rather than simplify the world. The authors advance an understanding of care, and of aging itself, marked by alterity, spectral presences and uncertainty. Contributors : Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Lone Gr n, Maria Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle S. Wentzer, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and practices of care in old age? And how can imagistic inquiries offer grounds for critique? Cutting between ethnography, phenomenology and art, this volume offers a powerful contribution to understandings of growing old. The images created in words and drawings are used to complicate rather than simplify the world. The contributors advance an understanding of care, and of aging itself, marked by alterity, spectral presences and uncertainty. Contributors : Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Lone Grøn, Maria Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle S. Wentzer, Susan Reynolds Whyte
LC Classification NumberHV1451.I453 2022
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