A life worth living: Temporality, care, and personhood in the Danish welfare state

Svendsen, Mette N.; Navne, Laura Emdal; Gjødsbøl, Iben Mundbjerg; Dam, Mie S.

doi:10.1111/amet.12596

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“…This work resonates with a larger body of work that aims to reimagine the human, to understand “worth at the margins” (Svendsen et al. ), and to analyze the value of a life (Errington and Gewertz ; see also J. Fisher ; Wanderer ). Across this work, more‐than‐human frames remained deeply connected to understanding the experiences of vulnerable people.…”

Section: Captivity: Wolves Zombies and Oil Palmsmentioning

confidence: 55%

“…Svendsen et al. (, 20) similarly used a multispecies approach to examine the human, asking “ what it takes to, for example, turn premature infants, research piglets, and people with dementia into beings with worthy lives” (emphasis in original). They did this through a collaborative ethnographic project across three separate sites in Denmark—an intensive care unit, a research laboratory, and an elderly care center—to understand caregiving practices and regimes of valuing life in the zone between life and death and across species and temporality.…”

Section: Captivity: Wolves Zombies and Oil Palmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other work foregrounded oddkin beyond the human: through living alongside salamanders (Wanderer ), taxidermy as unexpected “interspecies affinity” (Kalshoven ), comparative work including fetal pigs, neonates, and elderly adults suffering from dementia (Svendsen et al. ), or plants (Chao ; Chapman ). Some renarrated the history of anthropological theory in an effort to “ integrat [ e ] dark and light anthropologies” (Rodseth , 398; emphasis in original), while others identified specific sites that illuminate unlikely transformative growth or world‐making, such as compost in Tanzania (Langwick ), toxic waste in Brazil (Willis ), urban rubble in Germany (Stoetzer ), “experiments in the ecology of everyday life” in the deserts of Southern California (Vine , 405), or Indigenous media futures (Dowell ; D. Fisher ; Ginsburg ; Hennessy, Smith, and Hogue ; Lempert ).…”

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Cultural Anthropology in 2018: Captivity and Its Unruly Failures

Doughty

2019

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews articles produced in the four key American Anthropological Association cultural anthropology journals throughout 2018, and identifies the ways cultural anthropologists took up Haraway's invitation to "stay with the trouble" through implicit and explicit engagement with logics of captivity and its failures. This work suggests ongoing attention to long-standing themes in cultural anthropology-tensions between capture and escape, constraint and resistance, structure and agency-even as it suggests that captivity and its unruly failures can productively draw our attention to new ways of thinking about governance, temporality, scale, affect, political economy, posthumanism, ontology, care, and infrastructure. In this review, I ask: What can and cannot be contained in the contemporary moment, and what is at stake in that containment, or in the seepage that exceeds its borders?The review focuses on key ways anthropologists analyzed these long-standing questions anew in 2018: captivity and the nature of the human, dependency and exile, and violence and borders, and, by contrast, runaway change and uncertainty, unruly people and affects, and seeping waste and toxicity. Overall, I suggest that captivity and seepage provide productive provocations for further study. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, captivity, escape, uncertainty, waste] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa artículos producidos en las cuatro revistas científicas claves de la Asociación Americana de Antropología a lo largo de 2018, e identifica las formas como los antropólogos culturales aceptaron la invitación de Haraway para "quedarse con el problema" a través de un envolvimiento con las lógicas de la captividad y sus fallas. Este trabajo sugiere atención continua a temas de larga data en antropología cultural -tensiones entre captura y escape, restricción y resistencia, estructura y agencia-aun cuando sugiere que esa captividad y sus fallas ingobernables pueden productivamente llamar nuestra atención a nuevas formas de pensar sobre gobernanza, temporalidad, escala, afecto, economía política, posthumanismo, ontología, cuidado e infraestructura.En esta revisión, pregunto: ¿Qué puede y qué no puede ser contenido en el momento contemporáneo, y qué está en juego en esa contención o en la filtración que supera sus fronteras? La revisión se enfoca en las formas claves en que los antropólogos analizaron estas cuestiones de larga data de nuevo en 2018: captividad y la naturaleza de lo humano, dependencia y exilio, y violencia y fronteras y, por contraste, cambio desenfrenado e incertidumbre, personas rebeldes y afectos, y residuos filtrantes y toxicidad. En general, sugiero que la captividad y la filtración proveen provocaciones productivas para estudio posterior. [año en revisión, antropología sociocultural, captividad, escape, incertidumbre, residuos]

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2019

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“…Across the human–animal entanglement scholarship, care has become a central theme (Druglitrø ; Friese ; Giraud and Hollin ; Guerrini ; Holmberg ; Kirk ; Svendsen et al. ). Care for laboratory animals is generally understood in utilitarian terms within medical science, where concern with the well‐being of animals is crucial for producing high quality science (Friese ; Giraud and Hollin ; Kirk ).…”

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Entanglements in Health and Well‐being: Working with Model Organisms in Biomedicine and Bioscience

Friese

Latimer

2019

Med Anthropol Q

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Drawing on collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how human health becomes entangled with that of model organisms in day‐to‐day biomedical science. Social science scholarship on modeling has explored either how specific models impact and shape our knowledge of human disease or how animal technicians and scientists affect laboratory animals. This article extends this relational approach by asking how embodied and institutional care practices for model organisms affect the health and well‐being of animal technicians and scientists. We focus on two interspecies bodily experiences: pathogenic exchange and stress. We then explore enrichment as a strategy for producing health and well‐being across species. We suggest that relations of care form a crucial part of biomedical knowledge production. Not only does care figure in the shaping of model organisms; care for technicians and scientists also plays a role in bioscientific knowledge production. We conclude by proposing an interspecies approach to occupational health.

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“…Life is extended to lifeless bodies as a result of the performative care bestowed on these by living and breathing human bodies (on the care of “substitution” extended to the fragile and dying that subsequently become “deathless,” see Svendsen et al. ). As an ethics of the body, taxidermy has its limits as an expression of human appreciation of a narrowly defined beauty of nature, yet in its insistence on care and precision due to the animal, and in the flight of the imagination it affords, taxidermy constitutes an affective and an ethical kinship.…”

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Gestures of taxidermy: Morphological approximation as interspecies affinity

Kalshoven

2018

American Ethnologist

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Gestures of taxidermy:Morphological approximation as interspecies affinity A B S T R A C TAnthropologists have recently begun to highlight human relatedness with other animal species, arguing for a more inclusive posthumanism in which boundaries between different categories of "life" become blurred. Taxidermy in Britain and western Europe both troubles and supports assumptions about interspecies entanglements. In taxidermy, living humans meet dead animals in ways that suggest kinship relations beyond death, expressed in morphological analogies. Lifelike animation occurs both discursively and plastically, and the recent influx of artists into taxidermy has given it particular prominence. A specific ethics of the body emerges, one that makes a professed environmental affinity among artist-taxidermists pale in comparison with the "morphological approximation" performed by professional taxidermists in relation to the animals whose lives they claim to prolong. [morphology, ethics of the body, taxidermy, interspecies affinity, morphological approximation, Britain, western Europe]

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A life worth living: Temporality, care, and personhood in the Danish welfare state

Abstract: A life worth living:Temporality, care, and personhood in the Danish welfare state

Cited by 41 publications

References 47 publications

Cultural Anthropology in 2018: Captivity and Its Unruly Failures

Cultural Anthropology in 2018: Captivity and Its Unruly Failures

Entanglements in Health and Well‐being: Working with Model Organisms in Biomedicine and Bioscience

Gestures of taxidermy: Morphological approximation as interspecies affinity

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