Journal article
Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
Journal of aging studies, Vol.51, pp.100799-100799
12/01/2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100799
PMCID: PMC6880794
PMID: 31761091
Abstract
Social science and gerontological research on care tends to focus on identifying practices that qualify as "good care" and promoting interventions that might produce it. In this article, we identify this approach to care as the "evaluative lens." We argue that while useful, an evaluative approach to studying care can limit scholars' abilities to attend to the complex and disorderly aspects of care in daily life. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in three distinct contexts of elder care, we show the central role that contextual unpredictability plays in care experiences. In so doing, we argue for scholarship that recognizes care as a form of becoming, embedded in processual and historically contigent relations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
- Creators
- Aaron T. Seaman - University of IowaJessica C. Robbins - Wayne State UniversityElana D. Buch - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of aging studies, Vol.51, pp.100799-100799
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100799
- PMID
- 31761091
- PMCID
- PMC6880794
- NLM abbreviation
- J Aging Stud
- ISSN
- 0890-4065
- eISSN
- 1879-193X
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- Hartford Doctoral Social Work Fellows Program T32-AG000117 / National Institute on Aging; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) University of Michigan (Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies) University of Michigan (Department of Anthropology) 1028600; 0819259 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) University of Chicago's Social Sciences Division, a UCLA Social Science in Practice Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Michigan (Institute for Research on Women and Gender); University of Michigan System University of Michigan (School of Social Work); University of Michigan System x2 / Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research University of Iowa Department of Internal Medicine Institute of Gerontology and Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University University of Iowa Department of Anthropology University of Michigan (Rackham Graduate School); University of Michigan System
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; Center for Social Science Innovation; General Internal Medicine; Community and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984269246302771
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