Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives - Couverture souple

Ahlin, Tanja

 
9781978834323: Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1978834322 ISBN 13 : 9781978834323
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition. The open access publication was financially supported by the Social Science Research Master and partly also by the Health, Care and the Body Programme Group of the Department of Anthropology, both at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.

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À propos de l?auteur

TANJA AHLIN is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the anthropology department at the University of Amsterdam.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1978834322
ISBN 13 
9781978834323
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1978834330 ISBN 13 :  9781978834330
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2023
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