New Perspectives on Mutual Dependency in Care-Giving

SOURALOVÁ, Adéla. New Perspectives on Mutual Dependency in Care-Giving. 1st ed. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015, 168 pp. ISBN 978-1-4724-5666-3.

Basic information

• Original name: New Perspectives on Mutual Dependency in Care-Giving
• Name in Czech: Nové perspektivy vzájmené závislosti v pečování
• Authors: SOURALOVÁ, Adéla (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 1. vyd. Farnham, 168 pp. 2015.
• Publisher: Ashgate

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Book on a specialized topic
• Field of Study: 50000 5. Social Sciences
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/15:00084288
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5666-3
• Keywords (in Czech): vzájemná závislost; péče o děti; druhá generace
• Keywords in English: mutual dependency; care-giving; second generation
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Many scholars see caregiving relationships as being based on mutual dependency or interdependency. Extensively cited notions of the ‘global care chain’ or ‘international division of reproductive labour’ have prepared the ground for analysis of global interdependencies in several domains. This book goes further by taking mutual dependency as a starting point for analysing all relationships. Using the example of Vietnamese families in the Czech Republic and the Czech native nannies, it shows how paid caregiving is contextualized in terms of various relationships between three types of actors: employer-employee, caring for the child, and mother-child. All of these ties are based on ontologically different principles and each of them operates as a piece of a puzzle, which is meaningful only in relation to each other.

Abstract (in Czech)

Kniha shrnuje výsledky kvalitativního výzkumu vietnamských rodin zaměstnávajících české chůvy. Analyzuje tyto vztahy prizmatem tzv. vzájemné závislosti a zdůrazňuje nutnost zahrnutí perspektivy zkoumaných dětí do výzkumu delegované péče.