Griffiths, Mark and Brown, Eleanor Joanne orcid.org/0000-0003-4987-801X (2016) Embodied experiences in international volunteering:power-body relations and performative ontologies. Social and Cultural Geography. pp. 665-682. ISSN 1464-9365
Abstract
In this paper we debate the interpretation of embodied experience on international volunteering placements. Drawing on six in-depth interviews with volunteers recently returned from Northern Thailand, we document the affects and emotions that play a key role in the formation of volunteer–host relations. We then present two interpretations of the data, conceptualising power-body relations in two different ways: from power’s affective and emotional literacy, to the body’s autonomous capacities. With these two interpretations at hand we then consider the performative nature of academic labour and make the case, following the work of feminist geographers J.K. Gibson-Graham, for a research praxis that does not set limits on subjectivity but rather excavates – and writes into being – the possible. We therefore argue for a conceptualisation and interpretation of embodied experience in volunteering as a site of potential transformation and transcendence of the inequalities that otherwise set the conditions of the volunteer–host encounter.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | Volunteer–host encounters, interpretative practices, development, power relations, |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Education (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2016 09:20 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:09 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1210670 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14649365.2016.1210670 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102640 |
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