Belonging

Mattes, Dominik; Kasmani, Omar; Acker, Marion; Heyken, Edda

doi:10.4324/9781351039260-26

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“…Home is a complex site of study, as the home environment has multiple meanings. Home is not only a dwelling; it is also a place of social interaction, ease and relaxation, personal identity, and privacy ( Mattes et al, 2019 ). At home, past experiences and memories, as well as anticipations of the future, are intertwined with current experiences and emotions attached to the concrete and symbolic aspects of home.…”

Section: Emotions Home and Carementioning

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Care Poverty Within the Home Space: Exploring the Emotional Experiences of Unmet Care Needs

Sihto

Aerschot

2021

Front. Sociol.

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Older adults face inequalities in care. The concept of care poverty has been developed to point out how unmet care needs are not just an individual issue but a phenomenon linked to social and economic disadvantage and societal inequality. In this paper, we approach the question of care poverty by focusing on its intertwinement with emotions and the home space. We analyze how the presence, or more commonly absence, of care shapes interviewees’ descriptions of emotional experiences tied to the home space. Our data consists of 12 semi-structured interviews conducted in 2019 and 2020 with customers of outreach work for older adults in Finland. These customers typically face a situation that can be characterized as care poverty: their care needs are not (or have not been) met by either the service system or informal sources. When analyzing the data, we followed the guidelines for thematic analysis proposed by Braun and Clarke. Our analysis shows how care and lack of care transform interviewees’ emotional connections with the home space, highlighting particularly three main themes: insecurity, isolation and belongingness. Our analysis reveals how lack of care can transform the home into an unsafe place; a space characterized by isolation, or a space where one sometimes ceases to feel at ease or “like oneself.” The emotional experience of home and being adequately cared for is also tied to the sense of (not) belonging to a place. Based on our analysis, we argue that as an experience, care poverty is not just about individual unmet needs and/or a scarcity of resources at the societal level; it should also be understood as deeply relational—born and shaped in interactions (or the lack of interactions) among people, and lived in and through relationships with others. Furthermore, we highlight the importance of a sense of belonging to the feeling of being adequately cared for.

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Section: Emotions Home and Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Care Poverty Within the Home Space: Exploring the Emotional Experiences of Unmet Care Needs

Sihto

Aerschot

2021

Front. Sociol.

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“…Over the past decade, the notion of belonging has gained increasing attention across various disciplines including anthropology, geography, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and political science (see Mattes et al 2019 ). Often, however, scholars focusing on belonging have failed to state what precisely they meant by the notion, which has prompted some to argue that the concept has been vaguely defined, is ill-theorized, and wields questionable explanatory power (Antonsich 2010 ; Lähdesmäki et al 2016 ).…”

Section: Belonging In the Social Sciences And Humanitiesmentioning

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“…It is, furthermore, important to always stay alert to the intersectionality involved in such politics, as it is inevitably “inflected by factors like age, gender, class, race, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality. Belonging, whether at the level of the collective or the individual, is never free of dynamics of power” (Mattes et al 2019 : 302).…”

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“…Grey 2010 ). In consideration of the conceptual overlaps of belonging and identity, it is important to note that with its emphasis on the “practice and performance of commonality, reciprocity, and mutuality,” the notion of belonging “better address[es] and represent[s] the relationality involved in affective processes of collectivization than the categorical notion of identity” (Mattes et al 2019 : 301; see also Anthias 2013 and Pfaff-Czarnecka 2011 ).…”

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Embodied Belonging: In/exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion

Mattes

Lang

2020

Cult Med Psychiatry

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In this introduction, we propose the notion of ‘embodied belonging’ as a fruitful analytical heuristic for scholars in medical and psychological anthropology. We envision this notion to help us gain a more nuanced understanding of the entanglements of the political, social, and affective dimensions of belonging and their effects on health, illness, and healing. A focus on embodied belonging, we argue, reveals how displacement, exclusion, and marginalization cause existential and health-related ruptures in people’s lives and bodies, and how affected people, in the struggle for re/emplacement and re/integration, may regain health and sustain their well-being. Covering a variety of regional contexts (Germany/Vietnam, Norway, the UK, Japan), the contributions to this special issue examine how embodied non/belonging is experienced, re/imagined, negotiated, practiced, disrupted, contested, and achieved (or not) by their protagonists, who are excluded and marginalized in diverse ways. Each article highlights the intricate trajectories of how dynamics of non/belonging inscribe themselves in human bodies. They also reveal how belonging can be utilized and drawn on as a forceful means and resource of social resilience, if not (self-)therapy and healing.

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“…These brief scenes of the church's routine religious practice illustrate how affect, particularly arranged, contributes to realizing "collective effervescence, togetherness, a single trajectory among many bodies" (Brahinsky 2012: 215), and, ultimately, to instilling a sense of (trans)local belonging (Mattes et al 2019a). More than that, they point to the ways in which the believers' bodies and their carefully nurtured "religiously inflected sensory aptitudes" (Brahinsky 2012: 217) are directed and brought into relation with other human bodies and with particular material and sensory-affective environments.…”

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Traversing Fields

Kasmani

Mattes

2020

Social Analysis

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This article, a reflection on collaborative fieldwork involving a Sufi Muslim and a Pentecostal Christian setting in Berlin, examines whether distinct and diverse religious groups can be brought into a meaningful relation with one another. It considers the methodological possibilities that might become possible or foreclose when two researchers, working in different prayer settings in the same city, use affect as a common frame of reference while seeking to establish shared affective relations and terrains that would otherwise be implausible. With two separately observed accounts of prayer gatherings in a shared urban context, we describe locally specific workings of affect and sensation. We argue that sense-aesthetic forms and patterns in our field sites are supralocal affective forms that help constitute an analytic relationality between the two religious settings.

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Belonging

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Care Poverty Within the Home Space: Exploring the Emotional Experiences of Unmet Care Needs

Care Poverty Within the Home Space: Exploring the Emotional Experiences of Unmet Care Needs

Embodied Belonging: In/exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion

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