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Lin, Xiaodong (2022) Virtuous eating : landscaping the ethics of elder care with food. Health & Place, 78 . 102702. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102702 ISSN 1353-8292.
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Abstract
The paper invigorates the discussion on ethics of care in ‘care-ful geographies’ by highlighting the importance of thinking with ‘culture’ and its moral dimensions in filtering local ethics of elder care in China. More specifically, it illuminates how care, both as ethics and virtue, was manifested by a group of Buddhist older adults' appreciation of vegetarian eating in relation to the responsibilities for their own health and accompanying moral obligations. The conceptualization of ‘virtuous eating’ provides a hermeneutic cultural tool to interpret the shifting identifications with vegetarian eating, articulated as xiu lian (修練cultivation), fu bao (福報blessing) and ci bei (慈悲compassion), thus generating its analytical capacity in highlighting the reciprocity and relationality of care. The meanings associated with values and morality of vegetarian eating were enacting in forging new configurations of ethics of care within their self-therapeutic caring encounters.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Global Sustainable Development |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Food habits -- China, Food, Food -- Philosophy, Food -- Social aspects, Older people -- Nutrition -- China | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Health & Place | ||||||||
Publisher: | Pergamon | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1353-8292 | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 78 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 102702 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102702 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 November 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 April 2023 |
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