@article{1438663,
      recid = {1438663},
      author = {He, Longtao,},
      title = {Care work, migrant peasant families and discourse of  filial piety in China /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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 Foucaults  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. Longtao He is an associate professor in  medical sociology and social work at SWUFE, China. He has  published numerous articles in journals such as Qualitative  Health Research, British Journal of Social Work, and  European Journal of Ageing. His research interests include  qualitative health sociology, health social work, and  ethics.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1438663},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1880-2},
}