Caring for Strangers: Aging, Traditional Medicine, and Collective Self‐care in Post‐socialist Russia

Chudakova, Tatiana

doi:10.1111/maq.12276

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“…Likewise, an example from post‐socialist Russia: Although a public “healthy lifestyle movement” is thriving, health‐centric initiatives focus primarily on younger subjects (Chudakova , 79). Older persons are regarded as inappropriate major consumers of medicine, while older “grandmothers” who “run between doctors” face moral stigma for their “inability to accept the natural aging process” (p. 78).…”

Section: “You Don't Have To (And Should Not) Act or Feel Old”: Anti‐omentioning

confidence: 99%

On Being (Not) Old: Agency, Self‐care, and Life‐course Aspirations in the United States

Lamb

2019

Med Anthropol Q

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This article examines U.S. endeavors to eradicate old age. Drawing on research with older, mostly white, Americans across social classes, I probe how older people engage in “healthy,” “successful” aging as a moral project, health identity, and way of approaching the life course. Moving beyond influential literature on biopolitics and biomedicine that tends to treat medicine, science, and biopolitical governance as overdetermined causal forces, I explore instead how a confluence of factors—including cultural ideologies of personhood and independence, medical interventions, social hierarchies, and individual experiences—together lead to the stigmatization of oldness. Social inequalities also matter, as an ethos of self‐care and individual agency to ward off oldness is most pronounced among the able‐bodied and socioeconomic elite. The aim is to illuminate the convergence of factors that stigmatize oldness in contemporary North America, while highlighting the ways that class profoundly figures in people's varied attempts to not be old.

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Section: “You Don't Have To (And Should Not) Act or Feel Old”: Anti‐omentioning

confidence: 99%

On Being (Not) Old: Agency, Self‐care, and Life‐course Aspirations in the United States

Lamb

2019

Med Anthropol Q

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“…Those health promotion campaigns that do construct citizens as informed and engaged consumers appear to address primarily more affluent and younger families and individuals (Chudakova 2017: 2). Of concern here is a likely exclusion of those citizens who lack financial and institutional resources such as older people.…”

Section: The Governmentality Of Ageingmentioning

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The ambiguities of self-governance: Russian middle-aged middle-class women's reflections on ageing

Davidenko

2017

Ageing and Society

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In a youth-centred culture, where ageing is associated with physical and mental decline, investment in a youthful appearance promises access to socially valuable resources. The need for regular care for the self, primarily through consumption, constitutes part of the narrative of successful or positive ageing. Due to its emphasis on self-reliance and efforts to remain healthy, productive and youthful, the discourse of successful ageing has been seen as intersecting with a neoliberal rationality, or a shift of responsibility for risks associated with ageing from the state to the individual. While some authors criticise an emphasis on individual effort to maintain personal wellbeing for a lack of attention to structural factors, others view such an approach favourably as a way of transcending state paternalism. In this paper, I engage with the discourse of 'responsibilisation' drawing on the interviews with middle-aged, middleclass women from Moscow about their experiences of ageing. I employ the theoretical framework of 'governmentality' to demonstrate how the interviewed women's attempts to make sense of what it meant to age 'appropriately' within their milieus informed both their awareness of a need to improve and reinvent the self constantly through consumption in the context of post-Soviet Russian society, and their questioning of and resistance to this pressure.

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“…Kao što se to može videti na primeru gore navedene Sandre koja je imala opsesiju zdravom ishranom, zdravlje se sve više stavlja u domen lične odgovornosti, sa sve učestalijim potenciranjem na redovne zdravstvene preglede, odbacivanjem rizičnih socijalnih ponašanja kao što su nezaštićeni seksualni odnosi, alkoholizam, brza ishrana itd. To je bio slučaj i u Rusiji gde je promocija brige za sopstveno zdravlje i zdravih životnih stilova dovela i do praktikovanja drugih, alternativnih vidova pomoći koji ne funkcionišu po strogo biomedicinskom modelu (Chudakova 2016).…”

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The Construction of the Neoliberal Self in Belgrade Psychotherapeutic Practice

Vukomanović¹

2020

EAP / IEA

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The processes of neoliberalization and European integration in Serbia have been underway for some time, and in addition to their effect on certain elements of the social structure such as the family, the economy, political life etc., their impact is also evident in the way that Serbian citizens perceive themselves and their position in this environment. Due to reduced social protection, the withdrawal of the state from the public sphere, and increasing financial and employment insecurity, individuals are obliged to assume responsibility for their lives and to engage in self-improvement with the aim of personal development and the finding of new survival strategies. Through interviews with psychotherapists and persons who have used the services of private psychotherapy, this paper looks at the relationship between private psychotherapeutic practice in Belgrade as a technique for self-improvement and the construction of the self in its clients, and then relates it to the broader socio-economic context in which the respondents live and work. The findings suggest that with regard to its clients, private psychotherapeutic practice mirrors the emphasis on independence, autonomy and responsibility for one's life and life decisions, which are typical features of the entrepreneurial self characteristic of the period of post-socialist neoliberalization.

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Caring for Strangers: Aging, Traditional Medicine, and Collective Self‐care in Post‐socialist Russia

Cited by 17 publications

References 54 publications

On Being (Not) Old: Agency, Self‐care, and Life‐course Aspirations in the United States

On Being (Not) Old: Agency, Self‐care, and Life‐course Aspirations in the United States

The ambiguities of self-governance: Russian middle-aged middle-class women's reflections on ageing

The Construction of the Neoliberal Self in Belgrade Psychotherapeutic Practice

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