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

Ahlin, Tanja

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1978834322 ISBN 13: 9781978834323

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2023

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1978834322
• ISBN 13: 9781978834323
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 193
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile