59 research outputs found
Doing home with care in ageing societies
No full textIn this chapter, we articulate this volume’s key conceptualization of home as a verb. The book’s aspiration is to unlock home, and look at the work it always takes to make home when home intersects with new forms or modes of care because of ageing. We argue that the three modes of ordering the book—moving imaginaries, negotiating institutions and shifting arrangements—allow us to deeply uproot the imaginary of home (and care) as fixed and unmovable. After presenting the different chapters in these three parts of the book, we articulate how this ‘verbing’ of home with care affords room to not only interpret but also design and practise home-care arrangements in new ways
Virtuous ageing as a poetic endeavour:Motivations to write and effects of writing among older adults in Norway
No full textAlmost at home: modes of tinkering in hospice
No full textThis chapter is about crafting home and care with objects, habits and bodies in dutch hospices. I focus on how hospice residents engage with what hospices offer to them as more or less specific packages of home and care. I will interpret these engagements as breaching experiments (garfinkel 1967). They bring forth more and less implicit assumptions and normativities of home and care built into hospice architectures, staff movements and residents’ whereabouts. It is these breaches, these gaps, that point to the (productive) work that occurs ‘in between’ categories of home and care, life and death, and the promising instability of these ‘inhabited landscapes’ (nading 2014: 19): to the entanglements that unsettle home and care as static sites of home and belonging on the one hand, and institutionalized care on the other
Litterære strategiar og sjølvopplevd kreft
No full textIn this article four literary works that thematise cancer are analysed in light of two recent trends in society: (1) the emergence of the bodily turn and the writing of one’s cancer experience through illness narratives, and (2) the increasing tendency towards an autobiographically influenced literature. The literary works comprise the novel Ei vinterreise (A Winter’s Journey) by Ragnar Hovland (2001), the novel La meg sove til dette bare er en drøm (Let Me Sleep Until This is Just a Dream) by Ellisiv Stifoss-Hanssen (2014), and two poetry collections, Den tredje porten (The Third Gate) by Åse-Marie Nesse (2000) and Muntre dødsdikt og andre dikt (Cheerful Death Poems and Other Poems) by Jan Jakob Tønseth (2015). All four authors have or had cancer at the time of writing, and the four works open up for a reading where the cancer is closely related to the life of the author. The article examines what the different books achieve by writing about cancer experiences in literary genres. A close reading of the books reveals that a literary representation opens up a more nuanced investigation of cancer experiences than what is found in more traditional illness narratives
Beyond Façade. Home making and Truthfulness in Dementia Care
No full textIn this chapter the authors investigate home-making practices for people with dementia in residential care that make use of objects or material environments. Many of these objects or environments have aspects of make-believe. Responding to concerns raised about the growing use of these objects as ‘environmental lies’ or mere ‘façade’ building, the authors discuss what truthful home making could mean. They distinguish two ways of being truthful, connected with two strategies of using objects. In the first strategy, called home-scaping, care tries to closely copy the formerly lived environments of residents. Truth in this case means correspondence with realities as lived outside residential care. The second strategy, home-playing, aims at attuning to residents and to newly emerging truths, here and now, in mutual play. The authors argue that, while both strategies have their value, home-scaping can and must learn from home-playing where it needs to be embedded in ongoing care practices
Dylan og døden: menneskeleg liding og narrativ etikk. Kap. 1
No full textDøden går som ein svart tråd gjennom Bob Dylans songlyrikk. Frå debutplata i 1962 med sine dødsfikserte tradisjonelle bluessongar, via menneskeleg liding og død i protestsongar på 1960-talet til meditasjonar over eigen dødelegheit og forgjengelegdom på 1990-talet, for berre å ha nemnd tre opplagte døme. I dette kapitlet vil eg argumentere for at Dylan sine framstillingar av menneskeleg liding og død inneber ein narrativ etikk (Booth, 2002; Newton, 1995). Omgrepet narrativ etikk viser til at forteljingar presenterer oss for ulike etiske og moralske problemstillingar gjennom dei hendingane og karakterane som møter oss, og gjennom den haldninga som forteljaren og forteljinga syner fram
Forteljing som identitetskonstruksjon ved alvorleg sjukdom. Ein hermeneutisk analyse av alvorleg sjuke og døyande sine forteljingar
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