ABSTRACT

This paper contributes to studies of care practices and care ethics beyond the Minority world by analysing informal caringscapes after a family death in urban Senegal. Based on the findings of a qualitative study in the cities of Dakar and Kaolack, we explore exchanges of care by the living for the living in the period immediately following the death, and changes in these care practices over the longer term. We focus on mobilities and changing care roles in family lives over time. We demonstrate the central significance of family commitments and concern for the wellbeing of the ‘family’ in caring exchanges. We suggest that a deeply relational understanding of personhood as bound up with family and community underlies many current caring practices in urban Senegal and challenges current conceptualisations of care interdependencies.

摘要

本文通过分析塞内加尔城市家庭死亡后的非正式护理场景，有助于研究少数民族世界之外的护理实践和护理伦理。根据在达喀尔和考拉克市进行的定性研究结果，我们探讨了生者在死后立即进行的护理交流，以及这些护理实践在长期内的变化。随着时间的推移，我们专注于流动性和改变家庭生活中的护理角色。我们展示了家庭承诺和关心“家庭”在关怀交流中的福祉的核心意义。我们认为，对人格与家庭和社区的深刻关系理解是塞内加尔城市当前许多护理实践的基础，并挑战了当前护理相互依赖的概念化。