The politics of intimacy : rethinking the end-of-life controversy / Anna Durnová.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durnová, Anna, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Configurations (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Configurations : critical studies of world politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Intimacy (Psychology).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 285 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Debates on the end-of-life controversy are complex because they seem to highjack national and cultural traditions. Where previous books have focused on ideological grounds, The Politics of Intimacy explores dying as the site where policies are negotiated and implemented. Intimacy comprises the emotional experience of the end of life and how we acknowledge it-or not-through institutions. This process shows that end-of-life controversy relies on the conflict between the individual and these institutions, a relationship that is the cornerstone of Western liberal democracies. Through interviews with mourners, stakeholders, and medical professionals, examination of media debates in France and the Czech Republic, Durnová shows that liberal institutions, in their attempts to accommodate the emotional experience at the end of life, ultimately fail. She describes this deadlock as the "politics of intimacy," revealing that political institutions deploy power through collective acknowledgment of individual emotions but fail to maintain this recognition because of this same experience.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Liberal-Democratic Stage for the End-of-Life Controversy p. 15

Chapter 2 Emotions in Policy, Polity, and Politics p. 39

Chapter 3 Analyzing the Politics of Intimacy p. 69

Chapter 4 The French Solution to the End of Life: Debating Intimacy, 2003-2016 p. 89

Chapter 5 The Czech End-of-Life Care Policy: Accommodating Intimacy in Institutions, 2001-2016 p. 143

Chapter 6 The Unbearable Politics of Intimacy p. 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472124015

0472124013

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