Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World (Thinking from Elsewhere)

By Cheryl Mattingly, Lone Grøn, Robert Desjarlais, Lisa Stevenson, Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Maria Louw, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle Sofie Wentzer, Susan Reynolds Whyte 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 Product Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fordham University Press; 1st edition (September 20, 2022) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0823299635 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0823299638