Imagining Care


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Imagining Care


Imagining Care
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Author : Amelia DeFalco
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2016-04-06

Imagining Care written by Amelia DeFalco and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-06 with Literary Criticism categories.


Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethics of care philosophy. Through close readings of fiction and memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ignatieff, Ian Brown, and David Chariandy, Amelia DeFalco argues that these narratives expose the tangled particularities of relations of care, dependency, and responsibility, as well as issues of marginalisation on the basis of gender, race, and class. DeFalco complicates the myth of Canada as an unwaveringly caring nation that is characterized by equality and compassion. Caregiving is unpredictable: one person’s altruism can be another’s narcissism; one’s compassion, another’s condescension or even cruelty. In a country that conceives of itself as a caring society, these texts depict in stark terms the ethical dilemmas that arise from our attempts to respond to the needs of others.



Life Beside Itself


Life Beside Itself
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Author : Lisa Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-08-23

Life Beside Itself written by Lisa Stevenson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-23 with Social Science categories.


In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and through which we understand the world, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself: the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend’s newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. In these contexts, humanitarian policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by merely keeping a body alive. For the Inuit, and perhaps for all of us, life is "somewhere else," and the task is to articulate forms of care for others that are adequate to that truth.



Life Beside Itself


Life Beside Itself
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Author : Lisa Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-08-22

Life Beside Itself written by Lisa Stevenson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-22 with Social Science categories.


"This ethnographic study examines two historical moments in the Canadian Arctic: the Inuit tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). The colonial Canadian North was imagined as a laboratory for a social experiment to transform Inuit into bona fide Canadian citizens by, among other things, reducing their death rate. This experiment demanded Inuit cooperation with the forms of anonymous care the state provided--including the evacuation of tubercular Inuit Southern Sanatoria, which left many Inuit families without the story or image of their loved one's death. A similar indifference to who lives or dies is manifest in the adoption of the "suicide hotline"--an explicitly anonymous form of care where caregivers exhort unidentified Inuit to live while simultaneously expecting them to die. Through attention to the images through which people think and dream, Stevenson describes a world in which life is "beside itself": the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend's newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. For the Inuit, life is "somewhere else," and Stevenson attempts to articulate forms of care adequate to that truth"--



Re Imagining Old Age Wellbeing Care And Participation


Re Imagining Old Age Wellbeing Care And Participation
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Author : Marian Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2018-05-15

Re Imagining Old Age Wellbeing Care And Participation written by Marian Barnes and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Medical categories.


The understanding that humans are relational beings is central to the development of an ethical perspective that is built around the significance of care in all our lives. Our survival as infants is dependent on the care we receive from others. And for all of us, in particular, in older age, there are times when illness, emotional or physical frailty, mean that we require the care of others to enable us to deal with everyday life. With this in mind, this book presents the findings of a project that seeks to understand what wellbeing means to older people and to influence the practice of those who work with older people. Its starting point was a shared commitment amongst researchers and an NGO collaborator to the value of working with older people in both research and practice, to learn from them and be influenced by them rather than seeing them as the ‘subjects’ of a research project. Theoretically, the authors draw upon a range of studies in critical gerontology that seek to understand how experiences of ageing are shaped by their social, economic, cultural and political contexts. By employing a broad body of work that challenges normative assumptions of ‘successful’ ageing,’ the authors draw attention to how these assumptions have been constructed through neo-liberal policies of ‘active ageing.’ Notably, they also apply insights from feminist ethics of care, which are based on a relational ontology that challenges neo-liberal assumptions of autonomous individualism. Influenced by relational ethics, they are attentive to older people both as co-researchers and research respondents. By successfully applying this perspective to social care practice, they facilitate the need for practitioners to reflect on personal aspects of ageing and care but also to bridge the gap between the personal and the professional.



Troubling Care


Troubling Care
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Author : Pat Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Release Date : 2013

Troubling Care written by Pat Armstrong and has been published by Canadian Scholars’ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Long-term care facilities categories.


How can we plan, organise, distribute, and offer care in ways that treat both those who need it and those who provide it with dignity and respect? Using the example of residential services, Troubling Care investigates the fractures in our care systems and challenges how caring work is understood in social policy, in academic theory, and among health care providers.



Re Imagining The Bible For Today


Re Imagining The Bible For Today
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Author : Anna-Claar Thomasson-Rosingh
language : en
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date : 2017-06-23

Re Imagining The Bible For Today written by Anna-Claar Thomasson-Rosingh and has been published by SCM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-23 with Religion categories.


The early 21st century has seen an unexpected rise of new or rediscovered ways of reading the Bible, both in academic circles and in churches, with surprising results. These ancient texts appear to have a message that resonates with discussions in society at large. This textbook seeks to reclaim the Bible for a Christianity that is open to society and keen on participating in conversation about today's major issues; a Christianity that is relevant to the personal spirituality of people who aren't too sure what to believe and how to exercise faith.



Imagining Child Welfare In The Spirit Of Reconciliation


Imagining Child Welfare In The Spirit Of Reconciliation
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Author : Dorothy Badry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09

Imagining Child Welfare In The Spirit Of Reconciliation written by Dorothy Badry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.


Imagining Child Welfare in the Spirit of Reconciliation is a most crucial look at child welfare practices in Canada, social work as a tool for advocacy, and the need to address the historical legacy of the Sixties Scoop.



Living Before Dying


Living Before Dying
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Author : Janette Davies
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2017-08-01

Living Before Dying written by Janette Davies and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with Social Science categories.


This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of the work. Living Before Dying shows a world where, in extreme old age, people have to learn how to cope with living communally.



Transforming The Canadian History Classroom


Transforming The Canadian History Classroom
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Author : Samantha Cutrara
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2020-10-01

Transforming The Canadian History Classroom written by Samantha Cutrara and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with Education categories.


We are all our history. Yet in Canadian classrooms, students are often left questioning how they can study a past that does not reflect their present. Discourses of nationhood often separate “us” from “them,” and despite curricular revisions, the mainstream narrative that shapes the way we teach students about the Canadian nation can be divisive. Responding to the evolving demographics of an ethnically and culturally diverse population, Transforming the Canadian History Classroom advocates for a radically innovative practice that places students – the stories they carry and the histories they want to be part of – at the centre of history education.



Imagistic Care


Imagistic Care
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Author : Cheryl Mattingly
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20

Imagistic Care written by Cheryl Mattingly and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Social Science categories.


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