Discipline in chaos: Foucault, dementia and aging in India
dc.contributor.author | Brijnath, Bianca | |
dc.contributor.author | Manderson, L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T12:58:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T12:58:03Z | |
dc.date.created | 2016-09-12T08:37:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Brijnath, B. and Manderson, L. 2008. Discipline in chaos: Foucault, dementia and aging in India. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 32 (4): pp. 607-626. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27270 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11013-008-9111-5 | |
dc.description.abstract |
In India, care work for people in late-stage dementia is primarily conducted in the home. Using source material from urban India and drawing on Foucauldian theory, we illustrate the significance of three power/knowledge scripts in this context: social and cultural notions of acceptable, public bodies; medicalized forms of care; and the cultural contexts of the individual caregivers. The caregiver is the embodiment of these discourses and is charged with the task of mapping discipline onto inherently undisciplinable bodies. A tension exists between the caregiver's struggle to contain the unruliness of the person with dementia and, simultaneously, to act as a broker between the world of the care-recipient and the social world. We conclude that although the caregiver is the starting point for the exercise of discipline, the three power/knowledge scripts that inform care work are as much about surveying, routinizing and mobilizing caregivers' bodies as they are about disciplining the bodies of people with dementia. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. | |
dc.title | Discipline in chaos: Foucault, dementia and aging in India | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 32 | |
dcterms.source.number | 4 | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 607 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 626 | |
dcterms.source.issn | 0165-005X | |
dcterms.source.title | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | |
curtin.department | School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work | |
curtin.accessStatus | Fulltext not available |
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