Lonely Together
Subaltern Family Albums and Kinship During Medical Incarceration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12910683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adria L Imada (0000-0001-9999-8496, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 297-321 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Photography and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-4517 • E-ISSN: 1751-4525 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17514517.2018.1465651 |
| OpenAlex | W2808798696 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
During one of the longest and most extensive systems of medical incarceration in modern history (1866–1969), the Hawai‘i Board of Health exiled men, women, and children with leprosy (now known as Hansen’s disease) to a remote settlement on the island of Molokai. Some of these patients had access to cameras and the time to pursue photography, unlike most institutionalized and incarcerated people in the twentieth century. This article discusses subaltern family photographs produced by male patients during their decades-long exile from the 1930s to the 1990s. Patient-photographers crafted vernacular albums that reimagined non-normative, a-filial kinship in the absence of family connectedness and biological reproduction. Facing death and displacement, photographers envisioned uncertain futures suffused with anticipation, loss, and loneliness. While family albums are archival practices usually associated with women, unpartnered men took up the labor of piecing together affective relationships with chosen intimates. I further consider how patients developed anti-spectacular visual practices to represent heterogeneous bodies with disabilities, including their own, in consumer snapshots
Anticipation (artificial intelligence · Genealogy · Kinship · Loneliness · Political science · Queer · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
Imperial Hygiene
Suspended Conversations
Staring How We Look
Stigma
Camera Indica
The Birth of the Clinic
"Baby's Picture is Always Treasured"
Colliding Histories
An Archive of Feelings
Photography on the Color Line
Aloha America
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
Queering the Trans✲ Family Album
Promiscuous Signification
The Female World of Cards and Holidays
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |