Imagistic Care Growing Old in a Precarious World
Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how the 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 othe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Fordham University Press
2022, ©2022
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| Series: | Thinking from Elsewhere
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Imagistic Inquiries: Old Age, Intimate Others, and Care The Gift: An Imagistic Critical Phenomenology Virtuous Aging in Uncanny Moral Worlds: Being Old and Kyrgyz in the Absence of the Young “Yeah . . . Yeah”: Imagistic Signatures and Responsive Events in a Danish Dementia Ward On the Silent Anarchy of Intimacy: Images of Alterity, Openness, and Sociality in Life with Dementia Together Apart: Fence Work in Landscapes of Relationality, Old Age, and Care in the Ik Mountains Imagining Self and Other: Carers, TV, and Touch Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda The Staircase: The Ethics of “Transcendence and Height” in Welfare Care The Drawing Underneath Afterword: These Images Burn