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Care Work, Migrant Peasant Families and Discourse of Filial Piety in China

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This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring. In his own attempt to develop a localized methodology, the author considers identifying similarities between Chinese philosophies and Foucault’s theories as the key step for localizing Foucauldian discourse analysis. Three similarities are located and articulated with regard to filial care. Firstly, the complexity of discursive relations identified by Foucault resembles the complicated Chinese notion of the relationality of the self. Secondly, both sides have a tendency to look back to ancient times for solutions and to critique the notion of ‘progress’ in modernity. For Foucault, the way to attain freedom or agency is through technologies of the self, such as speaking truth (parrhesia). Lastly, both value action and practice in their theories. The book then analyzes, through this localized methodological approach, statements made by migrant peasant workers to take readers through their discursive mechanisms to construct filial piety in relation to their subjective care experiences.

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Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
2108000383	EB0006033	306.85 Lon c	Central Library (OPAC)	Available

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Call Number

306.85 Lon c

Publisher

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan Singapore., 2021

Collation

xiii, 275p.:ill

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-16-1880-2

Classification

306.85

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

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Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Family

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