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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 Gron, Maria
Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle S.
Wentzer, Susan Reynolds Whyte
In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often
pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and
scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of
younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the
greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this
perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are
constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how
they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The
aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to
aging itself but also to planning the next generation’s future,
preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and
self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in
Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different
regions of the world, offering original insights into how
aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued
in contexts of translocal mobility. This book is also freely
available online as an open-access digital edition.​
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
In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often
pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and
scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of
younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the
greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this
perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are
constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how
they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The
aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to
aging itself but also to planning the next generation’s future,
preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and
self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in
Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different
regions of the world, offering original insights into how
aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued
in contexts of translocal mobility. This book is also freely
available online as an open-access digital edition.​
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