Catalogo
04. Assemblages Transformations and the Politics of Care - Bologna University Press
Collana
DiSCi - Studi antropologici, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà - DiSCi
04. Assemblages Transformations and the Politics of Care
a cura di Sylvie Fortin, Massimiliano Minelli, Ivo Quaranta
This volume presents a selection of the contributions to the Medical Anthropology at Home (MAAH) conference Assemblages transformations and the politics of care that took place in Bertinoro Italy 2014. The authors investigate the moral material and social assemblages the mechanisms of transformations the relationality and the shifting negotiations that define contexts and politics of care. Their shared aim is to problematize both curing and caring as embodied cultural processes investigating how forms of biosociality control and subjectification are configured in socially situated and culturally specific terms. Together they show how care is both extremely fragile as an analytical concept as well as exceptionally productive in questioning the very processes involved in our being human. Ivo Quaranta is Professor in Cultural and Medical Anthropology at the University of Bologna (Italy). Head of the Centre for International and Intercultural Health (Centro Studi e Ricerche in Salute Internazionale e Interculturale) he works on the analysis of the social production and cultural elaboration of suffering HIV-AIDS chronic conditions and the relationship between migration and health care. Massimiliano Minelli is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Perugia (Italy). His main research interests are focused on the relationship between cultural dynamics forms of mental disorder and public strategies for community mental health. He also deals with social networks and comm…
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Disciplina
Scienze politiche e sociali
Argomento
Antropologia, Filantropia
Formato
170 × 240 mm
Pagine
200
Anno
2018
Confezione
Brossura
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN
9788869233616
ISBN online
9788869235498