Bernhard Weicht
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 247755 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bernhard Weicht |
| NOMBRES | Bernhard |
| APELLIDO | Weicht |
| FIRMA | WEICHT B |
| AFILIACIONES | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6886-5594 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 123 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Towards a Caring Sociology
Ageing and the need for care pose challenges to individuals, families, and societies. Within the sociology of ageing, care has received ample attention, while analyses often remain concentrated on organisational or policy challenges or questions of practical concern. However, as the feminist ethics-of-care tradition has pointed out, care also represents a philosophical concept in that it emphasises an alternative conceptualisation of the individu…
Negotiating euthanasia
Autonomy and independence have become crucial elements of end-of-life decision making. Opinions on the latter are, however, strongly contested in public discourses. This contribution analyses arguments in favour of and against a Dutch civil society initiative which promotes the extension of the legislation on euthanasia. The authors investigate Dutch newspapers associated with three groups: religious, liberal and humanist perspectives, and do so …
Sustaining relational subjectivity
The experience of dementia can only be understood adequately if the influence of gender is fully recognised. Research accounts have, however, tended to portray dementia in gender-neutral terms. This qualitative research study aims to redress this imbalance by investigating the gendered experience of women with dementia. The research addressed women's negotiation of relationships with spousal partners, other family members, professionals, support …
Clean up time! Redesigning care after Covid-19
We are a group of social scientists from Austria, Germany and Switzerland who drew attention to the care crisis in a cross-national ‘Care manifesto’ as early as 2013. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become impossible to overlook the crisis of care and we believe this provides an opportunity to correct serious shortcomings in the care sector. That is why we are putting forward a new position paper – ‘Clean up time! Redesigning care after COVID…
Is living well with dementia a credible aspiration for spousal carers
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Health Sociology Review on 21-5-18, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2018.1475249
Unyielding selflessness
Migration and care labour
A place to transform
Like all spaces, concrete caring places both shape and are shaped by understandings and constructions of normativity and identity. The traditional understanding of care for older people, imagining clearly demarcated dyadic roles, is firmly embedded in heterosexual logics of relationships within families, the own (family) home and institutional support. Social and residential places for older people thus both assume particular gender and sexual id…
Preserving personhood
Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia
The concept of personhood developed by Tom Kitwood highlights that the experience of dementia has relational dimensions that transcend the neurodegenerative impacts of the condition. This relational focus, however, has been narrowly conceptualised, with the impact of broader sociocultural factors on experience underplayed. The empirical exploration of interaction also requires reinforcement: a tendency for dyadic studies to portray findings in an…
The Meaning of Care
Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense
The Gender Informal Care Gap
This article investigates the relationship between the ‘gender informal care gap’ – the relative contributions of women to informal care for non-co-resident relatives and other members of social networks, compared to men – and public care policies, level of care needs, labour market position and gendered care attitudes. Since the literature suggests that none of these factors alone can explain the gender informal care gap, we develop a model base…
Migrant care work and care, migration and employment regimes
Migrant care work has emerged as an increasingly important solution to the challenges of growing eldercare needs in both the private and the public sphere. Migrant workers are employed in domestic services in Southern European and in some continental European countries, and they are a significant part of the work force in the formal care sector in many national contexts. The article provides an exploratory cross-country analysis of the phenomenon…
The making of ‘the elderly’
Embodying the ideal carer
Demographic developments have caused challenges to national arrangements for elderly care. In Austria one answer has been the employment of migrant carers in the home of people with care needs. The literature on migrant carers has largely discussed economic considerations and specific national welfare state arrangements which underlie the employment of carers. This article focuses on the relation between the moral construction of migrant carers i…
Enquire – a (Self-)Reflexive Journey
This article explores the more obvious processes related to establishing a postgraduate journal and more basic, general questions about the research process, the academic community, being a researcher, and in particular the place of postgraduates in academia. These various aspects will demonstrate the relevance and opportunities the journal Electronic Nottingham Quarterly for Ideas, Research, and Evaluation (ENQUIRE) can provide, not only for pos…
Embracing Dependency
This article analyses and challenges the categories of dependency and independence as they feature in discourses on care for older people in two countries, Austria and the UK. Using critical discourse analysis of newspaper extracts and transcripts of focus group discussions, I demonstrate how independence and self-sufficiency are constructed as ideals for human existence. Being dependent, on the other hand, is seen as the expression of an inferio…
Migrant care work and care, migration and employment regimes
Migrant care work has emerged as an increasingly important solution to the challenges of growing eldercare needs in both the private and the public sphere. Migrant workers are employed in domestic services in Southern European and in some continental European countries, and they are a significant part of the work force in the formal care sector in many national contexts. The article provides an exploratory cross-country analysis of the phenomenon…
The making of ‘the elderly’
Preserving personhood
Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia
The concept of personhood developed by Tom Kitwood highlights that the experience of dementia has relational dimensions that transcend the neurodegenerative impacts of the condition. This relational focus, however, has been narrowly conceptualised, with the impact of broader sociocultural factors on experience underplayed. The empirical exploration of interaction also requires reinforcement: a tendency for dyadic studies to portray findings in an…
The Gender Informal Care Gap
This article investigates the relationship between the ‘gender informal care gap’ – the relative contributions of women to informal care for non-co-resident relatives and other members of social networks, compared to men – and public care policies, level of care needs, labour market position and gendered care attitudes. Since the literature suggests that none of these factors alone can explain the gender informal care gap, we develop a model base…
Is living well with dementia a credible aspiration for spousal carers
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Health Sociology Review on 21-5-18, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2018.1475249
A place to transform
Like all spaces, concrete caring places both shape and are shaped by understandings and constructions of normativity and identity. The traditional understanding of care for older people, imagining clearly demarcated dyadic roles, is firmly embedded in heterosexual logics of relationships within families, the own (family) home and institutional support. Social and residential places for older people thus both assume particular gender and sexual id…
Embracing Dependency
This article analyses and challenges the categories of dependency and independence as they feature in discourses on care for older people in two countries, Austria and the UK. Using critical discourse analysis of newspaper extracts and transcripts of focus group discussions, I demonstrate how independence and self-sufficiency are constructed as ideals for human existence. Being dependent, on the other hand, is seen as the expression of an inferio…
Sustaining relational subjectivity
The experience of dementia can only be understood adequately if the influence of gender is fully recognised. Research accounts have, however, tended to portray dementia in gender-neutral terms. This qualitative research study aims to redress this imbalance by investigating the gendered experience of women with dementia. The research addressed women's negotiation of relationships with spousal partners, other family members, professionals, support …
Towards a Caring Sociology
Ageing and the need for care pose challenges to individuals, families, and societies. Within the sociology of ageing, care has received ample attention, while analyses often remain concentrated on organisational or policy challenges or questions of practical concern. However, as the feminist ethics-of-care tradition has pointed out, care also represents a philosophical concept in that it emphasises an alternative conceptualisation of the individu…
Clean up time! Redesigning care after Covid-19
We are a group of social scientists from Austria, Germany and Switzerland who drew attention to the care crisis in a cross-national ‘Care manifesto’ as early as 2013. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become impossible to overlook the crisis of care and we believe this provides an opportunity to correct serious shortcomings in the care sector. That is why we are putting forward a new position paper – ‘Clean up time! Redesigning care after COVID…
Migration and care labour
Enquire – a (Self-)Reflexive Journey
This article explores the more obvious processes related to establishing a postgraduate journal and more basic, general questions about the research process, the academic community, being a researcher, and in particular the place of postgraduates in academia. These various aspects will demonstrate the relevance and opportunities the journal Electronic Nottingham Quarterly for Ideas, Research, and Evaluation (ENQUIRE) can provide, not only for pos…
Embracing Dependency
This article analyses and challenges the categories of dependency and independence as they feature in discourses on care for older people in two countries, Austria and the UK. Using critical discourse analysis of newspaper extracts and transcripts of focus group discussions, I demonstrate how independence and self-sufficiency are constructed as ideals for human existence. Being dependent, on the other hand, is seen as the expression of an inferio…
Embodying the ideal carer
Demographic developments have caused challenges to national arrangements for elderly care. In Austria one answer has been the employment of migrant carers in the home of people with care needs. The literature on migrant carers has largely discussed economic considerations and specific national welfare state arrangements which underlie the employment of carers. This article focuses on the relation between the moral construction of migrant carers i…
Migrant care work and care, migration and employment regimes
Migrant care work has emerged as an increasingly important solution to the challenges of growing eldercare needs in both the private and the public sphere. Migrant workers are employed in domestic services in Southern European and in some continental European countries, and they are a significant part of the work force in the formal care sector in many national contexts. The article provides an exploratory cross-country analysis of the phenomenon…
The making of ‘the elderly’
The Meaning of Care
Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense
The Gender Informal Care Gap
This article investigates the relationship between the ‘gender informal care gap’ – the relative contributions of women to informal care for non-co-resident relatives and other members of social networks, compared to men – and public care policies, level of care needs, labour market position and gendered care attitudes. Since the literature suggests that none of these factors alone can explain the gender informal care gap, we develop a model base…
Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia
The concept of personhood developed by Tom Kitwood highlights that the experience of dementia has relational dimensions that transcend the neurodegenerative impacts of the condition. This relational focus, however, has been narrowly conceptualised, with the impact of broader sociocultural factors on experience underplayed. The empirical exploration of interaction also requires reinforcement: a tendency for dyadic studies to portray findings in an…
Migration and care labour
A place to transform
Like all spaces, concrete caring places both shape and are shaped by understandings and constructions of normativity and identity. The traditional understanding of care for older people, imagining clearly demarcated dyadic roles, is firmly embedded in heterosexual logics of relationships within families, the own (family) home and institutional support. Social and residential places for older people thus both assume particular gender and sexual id…
Preserving personhood
Unyielding selflessness
Is living well with dementia a credible aspiration for spousal carers
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Health Sociology Review on 21-5-18, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2018.1475249
Clean up time! Redesigning care after Covid-19
We are a group of social scientists from Austria, Germany and Switzerland who drew attention to the care crisis in a cross-national ‘Care manifesto’ as early as 2013. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become impossible to overlook the crisis of care and we believe this provides an opportunity to correct serious shortcomings in the care sector. That is why we are putting forward a new position paper – ‘Clean up time! Redesigning care after COVID…
Negotiating euthanasia
Autonomy and independence have become crucial elements of end-of-life decision making. Opinions on the latter are, however, strongly contested in public discourses. This contribution analyses arguments in favour of and against a Dutch civil society initiative which promotes the extension of the legislation on euthanasia. The authors investigate Dutch newspapers associated with three groups: religious, liberal and humanist perspectives, and do so …
Sustaining relational subjectivity
The experience of dementia can only be understood adequately if the influence of gender is fully recognised. Research accounts have, however, tended to portray dementia in gender-neutral terms. This qualitative research study aims to redress this imbalance by investigating the gendered experience of women with dementia. The research addressed women's negotiation of relationships with spousal partners, other family members, professionals, support …
Towards a Caring Sociology
Ageing and the need for care pose challenges to individuals, families, and societies. Within the sociology of ageing, care has received ample attention, while analyses often remain concentrated on organisational or policy challenges or questions of practical concern. However, as the feminist ethics-of-care tradition has pointed out, care also represents a philosophical concept in that it emphasises an alternative conceptualisation of the individu…
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