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Thesis
Stories of Care: Death and Dying in Washington State
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006282
Abstract
This thesis explores the relationship between Death Care Worker (DCW) and sensory experiences, and how these experiences shape their understanding of death, dying, and grief. Drawing on DCW's personal experiences, I argue that death and dying are highly relational. That they shape the DCW’s sense of self, identity, and meaning in life. Facing death and dying can start a process of (re)orientation (Ahmed 2006). Sensory experiences contribute to (re)orientation in DCW’s encounters with death and dying. This research views death care as an act of becoming-with more-than-human beings, as it fosters response-able relationships in living, dying, and death (Haraway 2008). It incorporates perspectives of subjectivity as a shared process of meaning-making (Ozawa-de Silva 2021), co-poiesis (Desjarlais 2018), and sympoiesis (Dempster 1998) as concepts of making together-with. This research defines DCW as not only human beings but also more-than-human beings such as microorganisms, plants, and machines, and so acknowledges broader relationships of care.
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- Title
- Stories of Care
- Creators
- Friederike Jordan
- Contributors
- Jeannette-Marie Mageo (Advisor)Clare M. Wilkinson (Advisor)Raven Weaver (Committee Member)Caroline Owens (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Anthropology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 117
- Identifiers
- 99901086432101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis