Care Work, Migrant Peasant Families and Discourse of Filial Piety in China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Longtao He
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	275
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-981-16-1879-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	981-16-1879-8
Barcode:	9789811618796

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