Calling Family : Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives / Tanja Ahlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahlin, Tanja, Author.

Contributor:

Manderson, Lenore, contributor.

Series:

Medical Anthropology Series

Medical Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Care--India.

Older people.

Adult children of aging parents--India.

Adult children of aging parents.

Families--India--Psychological aspects.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.) : 16 B-W images, 1 table

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How do digital technologies shape both how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? With technological innovation is on the rise and increasing migration introducing vast distances between family members--a situation additionally complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirements of physical distancing, especially for the most vulnerable - older adults--this is a pertinent question. Through ethnographic fieldwork among families of migrating nurses from Kerala, India, Tanja Ahlin explores how digital technologies shape elder care when adult children and their aging parents live far apart. Coming from a country in which appropriate elder care is closely associated with co-residence, these families tinker with smartphones and social media to establish how care at a distance can and should be done to be considered good. Through the notion of transnational care collectives, Calling Family uncovers the subtle workings of digital technologies on care across countries and continents when being physically together is not feasible. Calling Family provides a better understanding of technological relationality that can only be expected to further intensify in the future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Part 1. MAPPING LANDSCAPES

1 · ENACTING CARE

2 · CRAFTING THE FIELD

3 · STRUGGLING WITH ABANDONMENT

Part 2. CARING THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL COLLECTIVES

4 · CALLING FREQUENTLY

5 · SHIFTING DUTIES

6 · DOING HEALTH

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

APPENDIX: Note on Methodology

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9781978834354

1978834357

OCLC:

1395389089