Calling Family

"Caring is commonly an exercise in sensitive listening and empathic understanding, with particular attention to all that is not said. This book shows how a scholar can manifest care through their research, and thereby appreciate how carers enact care in their daily lives and their creative deployment of digital technologies in facilitating transnational care." ~Daniel Miller, coeditor of The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology

"Calling Family innovatively combines the STS theoretical lens with anthropological sensitivity for social context. Through heartfelt storytelling, the reader is transported from the gardens of Kerala to the deserts of Oman, or takes a car ride across London via webcam. The author teases out the intricate influences of technologies on care and highlights the role of affect for transnational care collectives – the global assemblages of people and digital technologies through which families care at a distance." ~Loretta Baldassar, coauthor of Families Caring Across Borders: Migrating, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving

"Written with great empathy, Calling Family is an extremely timely and original book that explores how everyday digital technologies have become essential for caring relations across distance and how eldercare within such transnational care collectives is transformed."
  ~Monika Palmberger, coeditor of Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration