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