Technology of Self, Technology of Power. Volunteering as Encounter in Guangzhou, China
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...…“volunteering” as resulting from a determination by an autonomous subject, whose calculated interests and motivations can be delineated and researched, while tending to neglect the ways in which individuals navigate between different and sometimes contradictory motivations (e.g., Fleischer, 2011)....
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...At least since the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, volunteerism has caught scholars’ attention (e.g., Fleischer 2011, 2013, 2018; Hustinx, Handy, and Cnaan 2012; Rolandsen 2008, 2010)....
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...Fleischer (2011), on the other hand, proposes amore nuanced approach, examining the tensions between volunteering in China as a “technology of power” deployed by the state and as a “technology of the self” by means of which student volunteers “refashion their identity into functional subjects in…...
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...…have allegedly triggered a dramatic rise of individualization and materialism resulting in a moral vacuum and a lack of solidarity (Wang 2002; Yan 2003b; Zhuo 2001); and where intense competition and the onechild policy produce ‘little emperors’, i.e. spoiled and egotistic youngsters…...
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...It is often used in the negative, in terms of lack, and tightly connected to the idea of ‘development’ (Yan 2003a: 494–496)....
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...Yan (2003b), in turn, suggests that the violent experiences under Maoism and the disruptions that have been caused by the reforms have given rise to an ultrautilitarian individualism....
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...As Yan (2003a) points out, suzhi is not actually a very precise concept....
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...Other studies examine the overall ‘results’ or ‘revenue’ of volunteer work (e.g. Eckstein 2001; Thoits & Hewitt 2001)....
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