Dependency and autonomy

An anthropological approach from the care of the elderly

Bibliographic Data

ID15450545
AuthorsChiara Cerri (0000-0001-9930-7931, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume15
Issue2
Pages111-111
Publication date2015-07-07
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAthenea Digital Revista de pensamiento e investigación social (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1578-8946 • E-ISSN: 2014-4539
PublisherAutonomous University of Barcelona (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.5565/rev/athenea.1502
OpenAlexW2411230774
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited6

Through a review of care policies and active aging policies in Spain, relying on some ethnographic examples drawn from the author's fieldwork, the article proposes a critical reflection of such concepts as dependency, autonomy and vulnerability and the relationship between aging and elderly care. The analysis shows the existence of some contradictions between discourse and practice of these policies, apparently antagonistic in their definitions, encouraging a change of perspective to include the concept of interdependence and relational autonomy in scientific production and in social policies, to go beyond distinction between care-giver (independent subject) and care-receivers (dependent object)

Autonomy · Dependency (UML · Epistemology · Ethnography · Humanities · Object (grammar · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Vulnerability (computing · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Aging, Health, and Disability · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Sciences and Policies · Law · Social Psychology

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