Calling Family - Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Medical Anthropology
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Tanja Ahlin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-978834-33-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Geriatric medicine Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-978834-33-0
Barcode:	9781978834330

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