Drawing in Ethnography

Seeing and Unseeing Everyday Life with Dementia in Sweden

Bibliographic Data

ID4564435
AuthorsHelena Cleeve (0000-0001-6650-8606, Department of Sociology and Work Science, Gothenburg University Gothenburg, Sweden, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume42
Issue8
Pages752-770
Publication date2023-11-17
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2023.2235068
PMID37610787
OpenAlexW4386084963
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

In this article, I present how drawing offers valuable ethnographic possibilities in care settings where verbal communication is challenging. The empirical examples derive from a study where I drew in situ in dementia care units to explore what residents and staff members found important in their everyday practices. I demonstrate how experimenting with the drawing process as well as the resulting drawings enabled diverse forms of participation to see and unsee matters together with residents and staff members. Treating drawings as steppingstones, meant that inquiries could be shaped together with interlocutors and that questions could be kept open and relevant

Aesthetics · Art · Dementia · Disease · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Sociology · Anthropology · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Representations and Identity

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