Dependence, independence and interdependency:

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• Dependence, independence and interdependency
• families, farming and the life course
• A life course perspective on childhood and later
  life
• Parallels between childhood and later life
• Childhood as a model for later life
  infantilisation
• Independence within farming communities the
  case of Tom Davenport

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• (the anthropologist) confronts the same grand
  realities that others historians, economists,
  political scientists, sociologists confront in
  more fateful settings Power, Change, Faith,
  Oppression, Work, Passion, Authority, Beauty,
  Violence, Love, Prestige but they confront them
  in contexts obscure enough to take the capital
  letters off them that is exactly the advantage.
  There are enough profundities in the world
  already (Geertz, 197321)

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• (from Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas)
• First voice
• All over the town, babies and old men are
  cleaned and put into their broken prams and
  wheeled on to the sunlit cockled cobbles or out
  into the backyards under the dancing underclothes
  and left.
• Old man
• I want my pipe and he wants his bottle

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• Dependence and independence often seen as binary
  pair.
• Dependency seen as property of the person

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• Literature on care prioritised the caring
  relationship and took the condition as read
• Literature on disability emphasised its socially
  constructed nature

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• Tom Davenport dependence, independence and
  interdependency

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• While independence or dependency may be
  experienced, empirically, interdependency is a
  useful analytic concept for examining such
  experiences from a life course perspective

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• Moral/affective positions can be sustained by
  intervening in everyday social life in particular
  ways.

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• Hockey, J. and James, A. (1993) Growing Up and
  Growing Old, Sage London
• Geertz, C. (1973) The Interpretation of Cultures,
  Basic Books New York
• Christensen, P., Hockey, J. and James, A. (1999)
  Thats farming, Rosie Power and Familial
  Relations in an Agricultural Community, in J.
  Seymour and P.Bagguley (eds) Relating Intimacies,
  MacmillanBasingstoke.