Aelwyn Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aelwyn Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aelwyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Innovative Ageing, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences Swansea University Swansea UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2404-9813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Remains? Salvaging Meaning from “Dementia Friendly Communities” Using Cut-Ups and Collage
This paper explores the possibilities of using alternative forms of analysis when thinking about “dementia friendly communities,” a recent if not by now historic phenomenon. Using ethnographic methods, I ask the question: what remains beyond, in excess of, and is never quite captured in discourses around such communities, if they exist? Dementia is an elusive concept, often appearing as personal disruption, and often threatening the ways that con…
Encountering Berlant part two
Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of 'cruel optimism'. Cruel optimism names a double-bind in which attachment to an 'object' holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming. The lines between harming, sustaining, damaging and flourishing blur, sometimes collapsing entirely. By holding together opposites the concept exemplifies and performs the centrality of …
Encountering Berlant part two
Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of 'cruel optimism'. Cruel optimism names a double-bind in which attachment to an 'object' holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming. The lines between harming, sustaining, damaging and flourishing blur, sometimes collapsing entirely. By holding together opposites the concept exemplifies and performs the centrality of …
What Remains? Salvaging Meaning from “Dementia Friendly Communities” Using Cut-Ups and Collage
This paper explores the possibilities of using alternative forms of analysis when thinking about “dementia friendly communities,” a recent if not by now historic phenomenon. Using ethnographic methods, I ask the question: what remains beyond, in excess of, and is never quite captured in discourses around such communities, if they exist? Dementia is an elusive concept, often appearing as personal disruption, and often threatening the ways that con…
Encountering Berlant part two
Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of 'cruel optimism'. Cruel optimism names a double-bind in which attachment to an 'object' holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming. The lines between harming, sustaining, damaging and flourishing blur, sometimes collapsing entirely. By holding together opposites the concept exemplifies and performs the centrality of …
Epistemology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)