Worlds of Care

The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities Volume 51
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-37985-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 51, 216 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: California Series in Public Anthropology

The stories of fathers caring for non-verbal children and how these experiences alter their understandings of care, masculinity, and living a full life.Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday lives of men caring for children with major physical and intellectual disabilities, Worlds of Care undertakes an exploration of how men shape their identities in the context of caregiving. Anthropologist Aaron J. Jackson fuses ethnographic research and creative nonfiction to offer an evocative account of what is required for men to create habitable worlds and find some kind of “normal” when their circumstances are anything but. Combining stories from his fieldwork in North America with reflections on his own experience caring for his severely disabled son, Jackson argues that care has the potential to transform our understanding of who we are and how we relate to others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Aaron J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. The Practice of Care
2. The Depths of Time: Past Becomings and Habitable Worlds

Interlude Gary’s Arrival Story

3. Between Bodies: The Fleshy Work of Caregiving
4. Conditions of Possibility: Fathering, Masculinity, and Moral (Re)Orientations

Interlude Connectivities

5. Belonging and Being-for-Others
6. The Axiom of Equality

Epilogue 
Notes 
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron J. Jackson is an anthropologist living and working in Melbourne. His research focuses on fatherhood, care, and disability.