Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other: Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Self-respect

Caze, Marguerite La

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01208.x

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“…Asymmetrical reciprocity refers to the expression of moral respect arising from one’s varying social positions and life histories [48]. Thereby, being treated humanely by employers, as a moral enactment of self-respect [49], was important for the MCWs to remain as a caregiver, more so than the workload itself:For me, treating me nicely is important as a human being. I don’t mind working hard and I don’t care about difficulties in working.…”

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A feminist phenomenology on the emotional labor and morality of live-in migrant care workers caring for older people in the community

Chiang

Leung

et al. 2019

BMC Geriatr

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BackgroundGlobal societal changes, such as increasing longevity and a shortage of family caregivers, have given rise to a popular worldwide trend of employing live-in migrant care workers (MCWs) to provide homecare for older people. However, the emotional labor and morality inherent in their interactions with older people are largely unknown. The aim of the present study is to understand the corporeal experiences of live-in migrant care workers in the delivery of emotional labor as seen in their interactions with older people by: (1) describing the ways by which they manage emotional displays with older people; and (2) exploring their morality as enacted through emotional labor.MethodsWe performed a secondary analysis drawing on feminist phenomenology to thematically analyze data from interviews with 11 female MCWs. Follow-up interviews were conducted with 10 participants. The participants had two to 15 years of experience in caring for older people in their homes in Hong Kong.ResultsPerforming emotional labor by suppressing and inducing emotions is morally demanding for live-in MCWs, who experience socio-culturally oppressive relationships. However, developing genuine emotions in their relationships with older people prompted the MCWs to protect the interests of older people. Through demonstrating both fake and genuine emotions, emotional labor was a tactic that live-in MCWs demonstrated to interact morally with older people.ConclusionsEmotional labor allowed live-in MCWs to avoid conflict with older people, and to further protect their own welfare and that of others. This study highlights the significance of empowering live-in MCWs by training them in ways that will help them to adapt to working conditions where they will encounter diverse customs and older people who will develop an increasing dependence on them. Thus, there is a need to develop culturally appropriate interventions to empower live-in MCWs to deliver emotional labor in a moral manner.

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A feminist phenomenology on the emotional labor and morality of live-in migrant care workers caring for older people in the community

Chiang

Leung

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BMC Geriatr

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“…This perspective recognizes that identity differences should not be shorn of their politics, nor reduced to celebrations of difference (Greene, 2005). Young (1997) inspires us instead to think about coming to know people across difference from a perspective of 'asymmetrical reciprocity' where life histories and social positions -including gender, race, sexuality, age and culture -are taken into account (La Caze, 2008).…”

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“…In naming this community we are also demanding, in a justice of recognition informed by Young (2000), that our interests and perspectives be heard (La Caze, 2008). Over time we intend to:…”

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Naming Our Reality: Low-income LGBT People Documenting Violence, Discrimination and Assertions of Justice

Billies

Johnson²,

Murungi³

et al. 2009

Feminism & Psychology

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“…This remainder represents the concrete dignity and identity of the incommensurability of the other. Marguerite La Caze (2008) adds her note of caution for being mindful of this remainder because it often represents the consequences of oppression that mar the other's ability for self-representation. One should not be mislead into thinking that another's self can be fully grasped and differences in life perspectives annulled through attempting respectful communication alone.…”

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Accommodating thrown-being in the world

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In Accommodating thrown-being in the world, I bring the facticity of an unchosen existence into focus for philosophical investigation. I place this feature of the human condition centrally within a conceptual framework from which I analyse it from an ontological and then a concrete perspective.It is the method I adopt to understand firstly what it means to be such a being and, secondly, to take this understanding into the context of the lived problems that surface on account of our initial unchosen lives. This juxtaposition uses the structure of the underlying ways we have our being to elucidate a possible approach, or ethos, to the seemingly intractable problems of difference, inequalities and contingent ways of being a human. My guiding objective in this thesis is to validate the rationale for proposing this ethos, which is to embrace the fact of our initial unchosen being as a way of nurturing receptivity to the equivalent fact of this unchosen aspect in other lives. The central question is that if I did not choose my life and you did not choose yours, how are we to accommodate this fact within philosophical thought? Is there something purposeful to be said of thrown-being that can illuminate my unchosen start in life, and can this explanatory light be extended to my relationship with others?I am not content to leave the idea of thrown-being in the background of philosophical thought as something 'given', instead in this thesis I treat it as a problem that must be approached in a positive way because we must all persist with an unchosen existence. I take the term 'thrown-being' from Heidegger's ontology, which has been seminal for the ideas in this thesis. It has allowed me to look at the human condition from within its ways of being, which is to understand it at the deepest level of how we navigate the fact of our existence. We are thrown-beings into a projective way of being.Therefore, any thinking we do about this being is always after the fact. I can only reflect on the fact of my unchosen initial life. It is this characteristic that justifies the use of ontology as part of my methodology in this thesis.After explaining Heidegger's existential analytic, I engage with Jean-Luc Nancy's development of the existential of being-with. This is provided as part of Nancy's thesis of being singular plural, which is a way of understanding that sense and meaning, as the foci of being, are made through the interplay between subjects who are themselves objects in a never-ending sequence of exchange and repetition. Meaning is made at the limit of sense and can identify a singular experience of being.This idea of thinking at the limit is useful to my argument that thrown-being gives us a meaning of homelessness, which because of our essential ontological nature is at the same time a shared meaning. However, it is only through authentic being that we can actually face this particular ii meaning of our facticity. It is also authenticity that affords the opportunity for responsibility. This proto-ethical position is...

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Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other: Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Self-respect

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

A feminist phenomenology on the emotional labor and morality of live-in migrant care workers caring for older people in the community

A feminist phenomenology on the emotional labor and morality of live-in migrant care workers caring for older people in the community

Naming Our Reality: Low-income LGBT People Documenting Violence, Discrimination and Assertions of Justice

Accommodating thrown-being in the world

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