Worlds of care : the emotional lives of fathers caring for children with disabilities / Aaron J. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Aaron J., 1981- author.

Series:

California Series in Public Anthropology ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers of children with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 199 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Summary:

The stories of fathers caring for non-verbal children and how these experiences alter their understandings of care, masculinity, and living a full life.Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday lives of men caring for children with major physical and intellectual disabilities, Worlds of Care undertakes an exploration of how men shape their identities in the context of caregiving. Anthropologist Aaron J. Jackson fuses ethnographic research and creative nonfiction to offer an evocative account of what is required for men to create habitable worlds and find some kind of "normal" when their circumstances are anything but. Combining stories from his fieldwork in North America with reflections on his own experience caring for his severely disabled son, Jackson argues that care has the potential to transform our understanding of who we are and how we relate to others.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Practice of Care

2. The Depths of Time

Interlude

3. Between Bodies The Fleshy Work of Caregiving

4. Conditions of Possibility

5. Belonging and Being-for-Others

6. The Axiom of Equality

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

California Series in Public Anthropology

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520976955

0520976959

OCLC:

1248759017