Forecasting and foreclosing futures: The temporal dissonance of advance care directives

Zivkovic, Tanya

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.035

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“…In this paper I draw on ethnographic research with Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese communities as a way to broaden existing Australian research in this field. My own research extends previous critiques on current approaches to end-of-life care and challenges the assumption that we can all, and in equal measure, grasp and make complex medical decisions about an unknown and incalculable future (Zivkovic 2018). In this previous work with diverse migrant communities in Adelaide (Zivkovic 2018), I have described how participants' difficulties in imagining the future limited their ability to make anticipatory decisions about the end of life.…”

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“…My own research extends previous critiques on current approaches to end-of-life care and challenges the assumption that we can all, and in equal measure, grasp and make complex medical decisions about an unknown and incalculable future (Zivkovic 2018). In this previous work with diverse migrant communities in Adelaide (Zivkovic 2018), I have described how participants' difficulties in imagining the future limited their ability to make anticipatory decisions about the end of life. For example, Mrs Huang, a Chinese grandmother in her 60s, was asked, while sitting in her daughter's lounge room, how she would plan for ageing, illness and death.…”

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“…Additionally, as many older Vietnamese and Chinese participants were unable to speak or read English, they could not document their own individual medical preferences when filling out the 'Do It Yourself' English-language form. Hence, for many families, cultural expectations of filial piety became a practical necessity, foregrounding the role of children, who were called upon to think, plan and act, often in the short term, when the need for medical decision-making arose (Zivkovic 2018).…”

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“…Notions of fate, much like advance care directives, appear at the outset to foreclose possibilities of multiple futures (Zivkovic 2018). With fate the future is preordained.…”

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“…The notion of individual responsibility to anticipate and manage one's (uncertain) future has been vociferously critiqued in previous analyses of advance care planning across diverse cultural contexts (Borgstrom 2015;Seymour et al 2004;Zivkovic 2018) In this paper I have used reincarnation as a marker for rethinking death as an opening rather than a closure (Ingold 2000). In so doing I have attempted to make space for trajectories of living and dying that run counter to public policy instruments that focus on an irrevocable, yet calculable, end to life.…”

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Preparing for (life after) death: Advance care directives and cyclic temporalities

Zivkovic

2019

Australian J of Anthropology

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This paper explores the disjuncture between medico-legal trajectories of living and dying, in which lives start and stop, and the cyclic comings and goings of Buddhist and Hindu bodies. Drawing on fieldwork with Buddhist and Hindu communities in Adelaide, South Australia, I attend to the multiple temporalities that become implicated in end-of-life decision-making about how and when a person may die. Thus, I reorient advance care planning from the linear projection of a single life towards cyclic considerations of the life course. In regarding life and death as ongoing I make space for temporalities of living and dying that run counter to public policy instruments, which focus on an irrevocable, yet calculable, end to life. I demonstrate how advance care planning processes and documents that construct the life course as advancing in a singular, linear and predictable trajectory overlook the multiple temporalities and directions that lives and deaths may take.

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“…Notions of fate, much like advance care directives, appear at the outset to foreclose possibilities of multiple futures (Zivkovic 2018). With fate the future is preordained.…”

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confidence: 99%

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2019

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Between ambitions and actions: how citizens navigate the entrepreneurial process of co-producing sustainable urban food futures

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Cities increasingly envision sustainable future food systems. The realization of such futures is often understood from a planning perspective, leaving the role of entrepreneurship out of scope. The city of Almere in the Netherlands provides a telling example. In the neighborhood Almere Oosterwold, residents must use 50% of their plot for urban agriculture. The municipality formulated an ambition that over time, 10% off all food consumed in Almere must be produced in Oosterwold. In this study, we assume the development of urban agriculture in Oosterwold is an entrepreneurial process, i.e. a creative (re)organization that is ongoing and intervenes in daily life. To understand how this entrepreneurial process helps to realize sustainable food futures, this paper explores what futures for urban agriculture residents of Oosterwold prefer and deem possible and how these futures are organized in the present. We use futuring to explore possible and preferable images of the future, and to backcast those images to the present day. Our findings show residents have different perspectives of the future. Furthermore, they are capable in formulating specific actions to obtain the futures they prefer, but have trouble committing to the actions themselves. We argue this is the result of a temporal dissonance, a myopia where residents have trouble looking beyond their own situation. It shows imagined futures must fit with the lived experiences of citizens in order to be realized. We conclude that urban food futures need planning and entrepreneurship to be realized since they are complementary social processes.

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A Qualitative Study of Nursing Home Staff Lived Experience With Advance Care Planning

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Forecasting and foreclosing futures: The temporal dissonance of advance care directives

Cited by 30 publications

References 36 publications

Preparing for (life after) death: Advance care directives and cyclic temporalities

Preparing for (life after) death: Advance care directives and cyclic temporalities

Between ambitions and actions: how citizens navigate the entrepreneurial process of co-producing sustainable urban food futures

A Qualitative Study of Nursing Home Staff Lived Experience With Advance Care Planning

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