Everyday Life Construction, Outdoor Activity and Health Practice among Urban Empty Nesters and Their Companion Dogs in Guangzhou, China
Everyday Life Construction, Outdoor Activity and Health Practice among Urban Empty Nesters and Their Companion Dogs in Guangzhou, China
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中国广州城市空巢老人及其伴侣犬日常生活建设、户外活动及健康实践
DOI：
10.3390/ijerph17114091
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
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Yin, Duo
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作者：
Chen, Xianfei;Zhu, Hong;Yin, Duo
在本文中，我们认为，对老年人的日常生活的研究需要超越自我中心主义，因为非人类的支持有助于他们的社交网络的多样性。我们通过研究伴侣犬如何参与广州（中国老龄化和高度城市化的城市）的城市空巢家庭，城市空巢老人在晚年生活中建立多物种亲属关系以及改善城市空巢老人的健康状况来阐述这一论点。结合前期观察和20次深入访谈，评估养狗与晚年生活重建之间的关联。具体来说，我们专注于城市空巢老人和他们的伴侣狗对户外活动的共同追求;这种追求代表了一种共享的休闲实践，保持了多物种的亲缘关系，是老年人改善幸福感和身体机能的创造性方式。本文从关系和反思的角度出发，探讨了城市空巢老人与陪伴犬之间的互动关系，以及这种互动关系在城市休闲空间中的意义。
In this paper, we argue that research on the everyday life of older people needs to move beyond anthropocentrism because non-human support contributes to the diversity of their social networks. We elaborate this argument by examining how companion dogs are involved in the urban empty-nest family in Guangzhou (an aging and highly urbanized city in China), the building of multispecies kinships by urban empty nesters in later life and improving the health of urban empty nesters. Participatory observations and 20 in-depth interviews were combined to assess the association between dog ownership and the reconstruction of later life. Specifically, we focus on the co-disciplined pursuit of outdoor activities by urban empty nesters and their companion dogs; this pursuit represents a shared leisure practice that maintains multispecies kinship and is a creative way for older individuals to improve their happiness and physical functioning. This paper provides a relational and reflective understanding of the interaction between the urban empty nesters and companion dogs and the implications of this interaction in the urban leisure space.