Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword
Lisa Stevenson | vii
Introduction: Imagistic Inquiries: Old Age, Intimate Others, and Care
Lone Grøn and Cheryl Mattingly | 1
The Gift: An Imagistic Critical Phenomenology
Cheryl Mattingly | 31
Virtuous Aging in Uncanny Moral Worlds: Being Old and Kyrgyz in the Absence of the Young
Maria Louw | 59
“Yeah . . . Yeah”: Imagistic Signatures and Responsive Events in a Danish Dementia Ward
Lone Grøn | 83
On the Silent Anarchy of Intimacy: Images of Alterity, Openness, and Sociality in Life with Dementia
Rasmus Dyring | 109
Together Apart: Fence Work in Landscapes of Relationality, Old Age, and Care in the Ik Mountains
Lotte Meinert | 137
Imagining Self and Other: Carers, TV, and Touch
Harmandeep Kaur Gill | 163
Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda
Susan Reynolds Whyte | 187
The Staircase: The Ethics of “Transcendence and Height” in Welfare Care
Helle Sofie Wentzer | 209
The Drawing Underneath
Maria Speyer | 229
Afterword: These Images Burn
Robert Desjarlais | 251
List of Contributors | 261
Index | 265
