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More-Than-Human Aging: Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life
What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species? Similarly,...
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What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species? Similarly, how do other species age (or not) with humans, and what sort of (a)symmetries, if any, are brought to light around how we understand and think about aging? So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species. This volume aims to start a conversation about aging by taking its more-than-human participants seriously--that is, not only as a support for or context of human aging but also, more symmetrically, as agents and subjects in the process of aging. The contributors draw upon richly descriptive ethnographic accounts, including moments of connection between seniors and dogs in a long-term care facility, human care for aging laboratory animals, and robotic companionship in later life. The ethnographies in this volume not only enrich our understanding of more-than-human companionship during the human aging process but also challenge and urge us to rethink what it means to live later in life in ecologically entangled social and moral worlds.
Author: Cristina Douglas, Andrew Whitehouse
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 10/11/2024
Pages: 230
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781978840935
About the Author
CRISTINA DOUGLAS is a medical anthropologist and a PhD candidate in social/medical anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. ANDREW WHITEHOUSE is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is a coeditor of Landscapes beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives. JAY SOKOLOVSKY is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is the editor of The Cultural Context of Aging, 4th edition, and author of Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century: A Multimedia-Enabled Text. SUSAN McHUGH is a professor of English at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. She is the author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories against Extinction and Genocide and Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines.
Author: Cristina Douglas, Andrew Whitehouse
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 10/11/2024
Pages: 230
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781978840935
About the Author
CRISTINA DOUGLAS is a medical anthropologist and a PhD candidate in social/medical anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. ANDREW WHITEHOUSE is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is a coeditor of Landscapes beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives. JAY SOKOLOVSKY is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is the editor of The Cultural Context of Aging, 4th edition, and author of Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century: A Multimedia-Enabled Text. SUSAN McHUGH is a professor of English at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. She is the author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories against Extinction and Genocide and Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines.
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