Why is a government administration concerned that providing
public housing might encourage arson? Why do elderly choose to move
away from their children so as to not receive their support? In
this book, contributors explore case studies of social support from
South Africa, Portugal, Greece, Russia, India, South Korea,
Vietnam, and China. Conceptualizing support as encounters between
state institutions and citizens, between aid workers and their
clients, and between family members, the essays draw attention to
the ways in which the nature and possible consequences of support
are variably understood and negotiated. For the first time
Ethnographies of Social Support draws attention to the
non-purposive background presence of support that comes with living
in a shared world.
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