Tanja Ahlin

Calling Family

Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives

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Produktbeschreibung

How do digital technologies shape how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? Calling Family explores how digital devices shape elder care at a distance and how it should be done in order to be considered good. Through Tanja Ahlin's ethnographic fieldwork among families of migrating nurses from Kerala, India, this book aspires to uncover the subtle workings of digital technologies beyond seeing them as tools of communication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781978834330
• ISBN-10: 1978834330
• Artikelnr.: 66406725

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
LENORE MANDERSON
PART I: MAPPING LANDSCAPES
1 Enacting Care
2 Crafting the Field
3 Struggling with Abandonment
PART II: CARING THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL
COLLECTIVES
4 Calling Frequently
5 Shifting Duties
6 Doing Health
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Note on Methodology
Notes
References
Index