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International volunteering, faith and subjectivity: negotiating cosmopolitanism, citizenship and development
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In this article, the authors analyse the short term mission experiences of young UK Christians volunteering in Latin America to explore the relationships between international volunteering, faith and subjectivity, and reveal the contingent and multilayered ways subjectivities evolve and are performed through international volunteering.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 81 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cosmopolitanism & Global citizenship.read more
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Critical geographies of love as spatial, relational and political
TL;DR: The work of Ahmed, Sedgwick and Berlant as mentioned in this paper is useful for furthering geographers' insights on love, and they argue for a consideration of love as spatial, relational and political.
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Volunteer tourism and the popular humanitarian gaze
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop the popular humanitarian gaze as an analytic to describe the geopolitical assemblage of institutions, cultural practices and actors (e.g., celebrity humanitarians, alternative consumers and volunteer tourists) that play a critical role in the privatization and depoliticization of popular humanitarian interventions.
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The place of spirit Modernity and the geographies of spirituality
TL;DR: The authors argue that modernity, religion and spirituality are entangled and spread through daily life, and that adding new forms of spirituality to the mix of geographies of religion requires reconsidering more than the boundary between secularity and religion but rethinking the place of spirituality in modern life.
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Unsettling Geographies of Volunteering and Development
Nina Laurie,Matt Baillie Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine the geography of volunteering in relation to international development and show how existing geographies of volunteering and development have produced fixed understandings of agency and experiences in diverse contexts, whilst meanwhile side-lining the temporalities associated with such fixings.
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Transitions to religious adulthood: relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on religious, vocational and aged relationalities to explore how these are engaged with, and experienced by, young people "over there" in Latin America and "back home" in the UK.
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.
Susan Greenhalgh,Arturo Escobar +1 more
TL;DR: The 2012 edition of the 2012 edition vii Preface xlv as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about development and the anthropology of modernity, with a focus on post-development.
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Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter:
TL;DR: The notion of ''meaningful contact'' was introduced by as mentioned in this paper to explore the paradoxical gap that emerges in geographies of encounter between values and practices, and the need for geographers to pay more attention to sociospatial inequalities and the insecurities they breed, and to unpacking the complex and intersecting ways in which power operates.
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Conceiving cosmopolitanism : theory, context and practice
Steven Vertovec,Robin Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define cosmopolitanism as "the social experience of cities" and "the cosmopolitan perspective: sociology in the second age of modernity", and discuss the role of the class consciousness of frequent travelers in the development of transnational neighbourhoods.
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‘Doing development’: the gap year, volunteer‐tourists and a popular practice of development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors critique the construction of this public face of development, while also asking, from a pedagogical perspective, what travelling participants learn about "the others" they encounter on, and through, such programmes.
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“Research, Performance, and doing Human Geography: Some Reflections on the Diary–Photograph, Diary–Interview Method”
TL;DR: The authors argue that not only can social action be viewed as performance, but also it is productive to reframe the research process itself as a kind of performance, which allows for a more experimental and more flexible attitude towards both the production and interpretation of research evidence.
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