Materialities of care for older people: caring together/apart in the political economy of caring apparatus
Michela Cozza, Silvia Bruzzone, Lucia Crevani
Abstract
By applying a posthuman perspective to the analysis of care for older people (COP), we analyse the agential cuts (together/apart) enacted by humans (mainly caregivers and older people) and more-than-humans (a camera intra-acting with other objects) whose agential entanglement configures and reconfigures the political economy of the caring apparatus. Our study identifies 'targeting', 'monitoring', and 'aligning' as interrelated caring practices, thus contributing to advance a posthuman understanding of welfare technology, and advancing a critical use of the possibilities enacted by technologies.
Topics & Concepts
PosthumanPoliticsSociologyPerspective (graphical)WelfarePosthumanismProject commissioningPublishingPublic relationsAestheticsPolitical scienceLawArtificial intelligencePhilosophyComputer scienceInnovative Human-Technology InteractionInformation Systems Theories and ImplementationInnovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development