Introduction: Imagistic Inquiries

How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independence, frailty and charisma, good and bad aging and care, and norms and practices of care in old age?¹ And how can imagistic inquiries offer grounds for critique? These are some of the questions that run through the chapters in this book, which explore the body as a speaking image, imagistic gestures, imagistic steps, imaginations of self and other, imagistic fences, resonance images, unchanging images, and haunting images and drawings underneath among elderly who age in challenging and uncertain circumstances in Denmark, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda,...