Rethinking Volunteering and Cosmopolitanism: Beyond Individual Mobilities and Personal Transformations
| Autor: | Matt Baillie Smith, Nisha Thomas, Shaun Hazeldine |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
L700
Mobilities L400 Corporate governance L600 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development L500 0507 social and economic geography Environmental ethics 0506 political science Diaspora Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Assemblage (archaeology) Cosmopolitanism Sociology Interrogation 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Geopolitics. 26:1353-1375 |
| ISSN: | 1557-3028 1465-0045 |
| Popis: | In this paper we use assemblage thinking to offer a new interrogation of the relationalities of volunteering and development and to revisit volunteering’s relationship to cosmopolitanism. Recent debates about the rise of new actors in development cooperation have seen a growing interest in the geopolitical significance of volunteers and their contribution to development. Research has addressed the ways international volunteering can shape cosmopolitan subjectivities, whilst claims for volunteering’s universality are a key feature of global development policy. However, we argue that existing approaches to volunteering, cosmopolitanism and development remain contained by established development imaginaries and their ascription of agency, authority and expertise to actors from the global North. We use the idea of the assemblage, and data from two research projects, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent’s (IFRC) Global Review on Volunteering, and a doctoral research project on diaspora volunteering, to explore the constitution of what volunteering is within and between places. Through this, we identify alternative sites for interrogating the capacity of volunteering to challenge established ideas of agency, care and responsibility in development. |
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