Pleasure and Dementia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Driessen (0000-0001-5627-1684) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2018.360103 |
| OpenAlex | W2800002984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 29 |
What can pleasure in the nursing home teach us about dementia and subjectivity? In this article I seek to challenge the assumption that the ‘fourth age’ involves the loss of subjectivity. In presenting dementia as a single pathway towards loss and decline, alternative pathways that provide more hopeful imaginaries become obscured. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in residential dementia care, I show how care professionals craft conditions that invite residents to take pleasure in, for example, dancing and bathing, and thus to become what I call ‘appreciating subjects’. Although residents do not craft these conditions themselves, they are active in accepting the invitations offered and enacting their appreciations. I argue that pleasure is a relational achievement, one that is contagious for those who let themselves be affected
Aesthetics · Dementia · Disease · Pathology · Pleasure · Psychoanalysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Philosophy
The good, the bad and the grey areas of care
Fragile storytelling
Care without co‐presence
Affordances of Fun
What else can sex education do? Logics and effects in classroom practices
Time in the State of Dementia Caregiving in South Korea
‘Why Bother?’ Skeptical Doubt and Moral Imagination in Care for People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities
Temporal Belonging
Anticipatory Grief in Dementia
Silence as Presence
Writing our Futures Possible
Questions of (non)Disclosure among People Living with Alzheimer's Disease in Denmark
Indledning
Attending to difference
In constant search of the good
Speaking from the blind spot
Land, History and People
Enacting agency
Expanding the ethnographic toolkit
Thinking with attachments
Experiences as Actors
Temporalities of Aged Care
Co-creative Affordance
Articulating Interesting Subject Positions for People with Dementia
Generative Hanging Out
Expanding Personhood beyond Remembered Selves
Ellen and the little one
Living with/out Dementia in Contemporary South Korea
Becoming malleable
Discerning personhood through lena-dena
The Body in Health and Social Care
Rethinking Old Age
The Promise of Happiness
Washing the Citizen
Attachments, you say? … How a concept collectively emerges in one research group
Enacting Appreciations
Ethnographic reflections on selfhood, embodiment and Alzheimer's disease
Making Alzheimer’s disease matter. Enacting, interfering and doing politics of nature
Unforgotten
Dementia and the Limits to Life
Frames and counter-frames giving meaning to dementia
A Sociology of Attachment
The Body We Care for
Those Things That Hold Us Together
Music Lovers
On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia
Enjoy your food
Hungers that Need Feeding
On Becoming Disabled and Articulating Alternatives
Tackling Indifference-Clowning, Dementia, and the Articulation of a Sensitive Body
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |