Ethnographies of Social Support

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • Markus Schlecker

   Pages 1-15

3. Housing Support for the “Undeserving”: Moral Hazard, Fires, and Laissez-Faire in Hong Kong

   • Alan Smart

   Pages 17-37

4. “Who will love you if they have to look after you?”: Sakhalin Koreans Caring from a Distance

   • Dorota Szawarska

   Pages 39-58

5. Access to the Social: The Ethics and Pragmatics of HIV/AIDS Support Groups in South Africa

   • Marian Burchardt

   Pages 59-80

6. The Changing Scale of Imprisonment and the Transformation of Care: The Erosion of the “Welfare Society” by the “Penal State” in Contemporary Portugal

   • Manuela Ivone P. da Cunha

   Pages 81-101

7. The Compassion of Strangers: Intimate Encounters with Assistance in Moscow

   • Melissa L. Caldwell

   Pages 103-120

8. Young Chinese Volunteers: Self/Interest, Altruism, and Moral Models

   • Friederike Fleischer

   Pages 121-139

9. Engagements and Interruptions: Mapping Emotion at an Athenian Asylum Advocacy NGO

   • Heath Cabot

   Pages 141-159

10. Life, Labor, and Merit: War Martyrdom as Support Encounters in Late Socialist Vietnam

    • Markus Schlecker

    Pages 161-175

11. Empathy, Salvation, and Religious Identity: Hindu Religious Movements and Humanitarian Action in India

    • Frederique Pagani

    Pages 177-194

12. Epilogue

    • Bartholomew Dean

    Pages 195-211

13. Back Matter

    Pages 213-217

    PDF

Why do elderly choose to move away from their children so as to not receive their support? Using a number of case studies, contributors explore social support as a tool of mutuality, or maintaining relatedness and sharing feelings, rather than preventing or patching up problems. This book helps correct the dominant framework of deliberate action.

• children
• emotion
• ethics
• ethnography

To come.

• University of Cambridge, UK

  Markus Schlecker

• CUNY Graduate Center, USA

  Friederike Fleischer

• Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

  Friederike Fleischer

Marian Burchardt, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany Heath Cabot, College of the Atlantic, USA Melissa L. Caldwell, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Manuela Ivone P. da Cunha, University of Minho, Portugal Bartholomew Dean, University of Kansas, USA Frédérique Pagani, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, France Alan Smart, University of Calgary, Canada Dorota Szawarska, University of Warsaw, Poland

Policies and ethics