3 In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FOREWORD xi
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
6. Introduction 17
7. 1 Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet 23
8. 2 Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderlands 42
9. 3 In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change 65
10. PART II The Category Fallacy and Care amid the Experts
11. Introduction 85
12. 4 Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call for Decolonizing Global Health 91
13. 5 The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India 112
14. 6 Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness 133
15. PART III Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power
16. Introduction 155
17. 7 A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India 161
18. 8 Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception 187
19. 9 Environments and Mutable Selves 210
20. PART IV Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies after Hope Has Departed)
21. Introduction 233
22. 10 Anthropology in a Mode of Dying 239
23. 11 Ethnographic Open 257
24. 12 Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human 287
25. AFTERWORD Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care 305
26. IN MEMORIAM 327
27. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 329
28. BIBLIOGRAPHY 331
29. CONTRIBUTORS 371
30. INDEX 373