Imagistic care : growing old in a precarious world / Cheryl Mattingly [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951- author.

Series:

Thinking from Elsewhere

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging--Social aspects.

Aging.

Older people--Social conditions.

Older people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Lisa Stevensonv

Introduction: Imagistic inquiries : old age, intimate others, and care / Lone Gron and Cheryl Mattingly

The gift : an imagistic critical phenomenology / Cheryl Mattingly

Virtuous aging in uncanny moral worlds : being old and Kyrgyz in the absence of the young / Maria Louw

"Yeah ... yeah" : imagistic signatures and responsive events in a Danish dementia ward / Lone Gron

On the silent anarchy of intimacy : images of alterity, openness, and sociality in life with dementia / Rasmus Dyring

Together apart : fence work in landscapes of relationality, old age, and care in the Ik Mountains / Lotte Meinert

Imagining self and other : carers, TV, and touch / Harmandeep Kaur Gill

Virtues and vexations : intimate others caring for elders in eastern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte

The staircase : the ethics of "transcendence and height" in welfare care / Helle Sofie Wentzer

The drawing underneath / Maria Speyer

Afterword: These images burn / Robert Desjarlais.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-9965-1

0-8232-9966-X

OCLC:

1338642560