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
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword
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
Circa l’autore
Cheryl Mattingly is Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California. She is an award-winning author and coeditor of multiple books, journal special issues, and articles on chronic illness, disability, and ethics from phenomenological perspectives. Single-authored books include Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience (Cambridge, 1998); The Paradox of Hope (University of California Press, 2010); and Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (University of California Press, 2014). Coedited collections include Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life (Berghahn, 2018); “Toward a New Humanism: An Approach from Philosophical Anthropology” (HAU, 2018); and Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing (University of California Press, 2000).141.643 Ebook in questa categoria
