Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts
基于对临终关怀机构的民族志研究，揭示了时间工作如何通过将临终阶段重新定义为能动时间，帮助同情给予者在极端情境中维持同情能力。
Abstract This article extends previous research on how compassion can be preserved in extreme contexts, highlighting the phenomenological experience of time in practices. Based on an ethnographic study of hospice care, we show how temporal work preserves compassion by enacting the end‐of‐life as a time of agency, a liminal time between the past (life) and an undesirable and certain future (death) that shifts focus to here and now actions. Taking a Heideggerian approach to the lived experience of compassion, we understand the hospice as a world where different ways of being are implicated in practices organized through existential spatiality ( being with the guest and being by the guest ). We show how exposure to people in end‐of‐life affects the experience of time in compassion practices, allowing them to be experienced as kairos , involving sacredness and spiritual connectedness with others, and as chronos , allowing compassion‐givers to restore their capacity by focusing on compassion tasks.