The safe hand: Gels, water, gloves and the materiality of tactile knowing

Pink, Sarah; Morgan, Jennie; Dainty, Andrew R.J.

doi:10.1177/1359183514555053

“…We aim to contribute to the development of archaeological ethnography as a distinctive set of methodologies; see also Meskell (2005Meskell ( , 2012, Castañeda and Matthews (2008), Hamilakis and Anagnostopoulos (2009), Hamilakis (2011), and González-Ruibal (2014). To do so, we draw on a range of previous experimentation in more-or-less materially focused ethnographic methods across our research team, e.g., Holtorf (2004), Harrison (2002Harrison ( , 2004, DeSilvey (2012), Bond et al (2012), Macdonald and Basu (2007), Pink and Morgan (2013), and Pink et al (2014).…”

Section: Heritage As a Series Of Future-assembling Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I have previously used such methods in asking informants to reenact and assist with mapping remembered ways of moving through and engaging with recently abandoned archaeological landscapes in Australia, and in exploring the production of knapped-glass artifacts, e.g., Harrison (2004). The work of Sarah Pink and colleagues on the use of short-term multi-researcher ethnography within the field of health care provides another example of intensive, materially focused, "applied" ethnographic research with significant implications for the kind of work we are undertaking (Pink and Morgan 2013;Pink et al 2014). Our project team remains open to the different qualities of the data that such engagements might produce.…”

Section: Heritage As a Series Of Future-assembling Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeologies of Emergent Presents and Futures

Harrison

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2016

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This article traces the genealogy of the subfield that has become known as the "archaeology of the contemporary past" and argues for its more thorough integration with an expanded field of historical archaeology. One of the central challenges for archaeology over the coming decades will be to find a way to engage with emerging, contemporary, sociomaterial phenomena and, hence, with issues of both contemporary and future ecological, social, political, and economic concern. Drawing on the framework for a new internationally collaborative, interdisciplinary research project, Heritage Futures, that seeks to understand the materialdiscursive processes of heritage and other heritage-like fields as distinctive forms of future-assembling practices through the application of a range of archaeological ethnographic methods, the article concludes that the potential for an expanded field of historical archaeology lies in its ability to engage with emergent futures by way of archaeological ethnographies that are attuned to the sociomaterial aspects of these and other future-assembling practices.

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“…, Pink et al . , Schillmeier and Domènech ). The role of dress, however, has received limited attention within the sociology of health and illness.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Dressing disrupted: negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia

Buse

¹

,

Twigg

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2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper explores how the materiality of dress mediates and shapes practices of care in the context of dementia. Earlier research called for an approach to conceptualising care that recognised the role played by everyday artefacts. We extend this to a consideration of dress and dressing the body in relation to people with dementia that involves the direct manipulation of material objects, as well as the materiality of bodies. The paper draws on an ESRC funded study Dementia and Dress, which examined experiences of dress for people with dementia, families and care-workers using ethnographic and qualitative methods. Our analysis explores the process of dressing the body, the physicality of guiding and manipulating bodies into clothing, dealing with fabrics and bodies which 'act back' and are resistant to the process of dressing. We consider how the materiality of clothing can constrain or enable practices of care, exploring tensions between garments that support ease of dressing and those that sustain identity. Examining negotiations around dress also reveals tensions between competing 'logics' of care (Mol 2008).

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“…For instance, Pink et al (2014) examine how mundane objects like gloves, soap and hand gel are embedded within health care-workers practices of 'tactile knowing' (p. 427). Latimer (2003) employed an ethnographic analysis of everyday thingssluice pans, towels, washing bowls, cotton balls -to explore how nurses perform their identity through the materials they work with.…”

Section: Care Clothing and Materials Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Dressing Disrupted: Negotiating Care Through the Materiality of Dress in the Context of Dementia

Buse¹,

Twigg²

2018

Materialities of Care

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This paper explores how the materiality of dress mediates and shapes practices of care in the context of dementia. Earlier research called for an approach to conceptualising care that recognised the role played by everyday artefacts. We extend this to a consideration of dress and dressing the body in relation to people with dementia that involves the direct manipulation of material objects, as well as the materiality of bodies. The paper draws on an ESRC funded study Dementia and Dress, which examined experiences of dress for people with dementia, families and care-workers using ethnographic and qualitative methods. Our analysis explores the process of dressing the body, the physicality of guiding and manipulating bodies into clothing, dealing with fabrics and bodies which 'act back' and are resistant to the process of dressing. We consider how the materiality of clothing can constrain or enable practices of care, exploring tensions between garments that support ease of dressing and those that sustain identity. Examining negotiations around dress also reveals tensions between competing 'logics' of care (Mol 2008).

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The safe hand: Gels, water, gloves and the materiality of tactile knowing

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Archaeologies of Emergent Presents and Futures

Archaeologies of Emergent Presents and Futures

Dressing disrupted: negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia

Dressing Disrupted: Negotiating Care Through the Materiality of Dress in the Context of Dementia

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