Imagistic Care : : Growing Old in a Precarious World / / ed. by Cheryl Mattingly, Lone Grøn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Desjarlais, Robert,; Dyring, Rasmus,; Grøn, Lone,; Kaur Gill, Harmandeep,; Louw, Maria,; Mattingly, Cheryl,; Meinert, Lotte,; Reynolds Whyte, Susan,; Speyer, Maria,; Stevenson, Lisa,; Wentzer, Helle Sofie,
• HerausgeberIn: Grøn, Lone,; Mattingly, Cheryl,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Thinking from Elsewhere
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 b/w illustrations

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Foreword
• 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
• List of Contributors
• Index