Unsettling geographies of volunteering and development
Unsettling geographies of volunteering and development
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志愿服务和发展的令人不安的地域
DOI：
10.1111/tran.12205
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Laurie N
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作者：
Laurie N
本文批判性地探讨了志愿服务与国际发展的地理关系。我们确定了参与维持北南关系的投资，这些投资已经成为这一领域学术界的主导，并探索了打破这一地理格局的新方法。我们从五个不同的研究项目中收集了经验材料，这些研究项目在六年的时间内以不同的主题和地理焦点进行。我们这样做是为了展示现有的志愿服务和发展地理如何在不同的背景下产生对代理和经验的固定理解，同时将与这种固定相关的时间性放在一边。我们强调，北方的流动性、时间性和传记性的持续增长如何隔离了特定的环境和志愿服务类型，并掩盖了其他往往是共同的、有时是共同产生的发展进程、关系和空间。在制定新的方法时，我们首先强调必须审视“隐藏的几何结构”，这些几何结构形成了个人、机构和组织之间的联系，而这些联系对志愿服务与发展之间的关系至关重要。其次，我们引入了平坦地形的概念，以强调与这种关系相关的地理差异。我们的目标是让人们看到新的志愿者和发展行动者，并揭示志愿服务的不同节奏和惯例，以及与志愿服务和发展有关的不同身份，传记和职业和生活形式。
This article critically examines the geography of volunteering in relation to international development. We identify the investments involved in sustaining the North–South imaginaries that have come to dominate scholarship in this field and explore new ways of unsettling this geography. We draw together empirical material from five different research projects, conducted with distinct thematic and geographical foci over a six‐year timeframe. We do so in order to show how existing geographies of volunteering and development have produced fixed understandings of agency and experiences in diverse contexts, meanwhile side‐lining the temporalities associated with such fixings. We highlight how the continued privileging of northern mobilities, temporalities and biographies has segregated particular settings and types of volunteering and obscured other, often shared and sometimes co‐produced development processes, relationships and spaces. In developing a new approach, we first emphasise the importance of looking at the “hidden geometries” that shape the individual, institutional and organisational articulations that are central to the relationship between volunteering and development. Second, we introduce the idea of a flattened topography to level the emphasis on difference in the geographies associated with this relationship. We aim to make visible new volunteers and development actors as well as reveal different rhythms and routines of volunteering, and different identities, biographies and forms of career and life‐making connected with volunteering and development.