Lecture | Unfolding Finitudes
Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World
- Cheryl Mattingly, Lone Grøn, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Maria Louw & Lotte Meinert
- Date
- Tuesday 20 May 2025
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- Serie
- Unfolding Finitudes: Current Ethnographies of Aging, Dying and End-of-Life Care
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Register to participateOn Tuesday the 20th of May 2025 we will host talk about the book Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World (Fordham University Press, 2022). We have the pleasure of having both editors, Prof. Cheryl Mattingly (University of Southern California) and Prof. Lone Grøn (VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research), as well as three of the contributing authors, Dr. Harmandeep Kaur Gill (University of Copenhagen), Dr. Maria Louw (Aarhus University), and Prof. Lotte Meinert (Aarhus University) present for this talk.
This talk is a organised by the Globalizing Palliative Care research group.
About the book Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World
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.
