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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...Wang (2002) describes how the reform period has hastened the collapse of the communist moral order of the Maoist era while no new moral order has arisen to fill ethnos, vol. 76:3, september 2011 (pp. 300–325) the gap....
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...…the reforms 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…...
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...To recall, Chinese society has been diagnosed with a moral vacuum or deficiency, as stated by Wang (2002), Yan (2003a, b) and Zhuo (2001) above, and commented on by the students themselves....
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...Stafford (2000), however, has criticized this view for overemphasizing patrilineal relations as compared to the importance of the cyclical relations of yang (parent – child relationship) and laiwang (relationships between friends, neighbors, and acquaintances)....
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...In a country where social relations and care are said to include only kin and close friends, the inner circle, but not strangers (Madge 1974; Tang 2005); where the reforms 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....
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...See Tang 2005....
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...An entire generation allegedly lost their ability to trust strangers and even neighbors due to their experience of punishment and betrayal (Tang 2005)....
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...Social obligations and trust ethnos, vol. 76:3, september 2011 (pp. 300–325) extend to one’s ‘own people’ but not to strangers (Tang 2005)....
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...An entire generation allegedly lost their ability to trust strangers and even neighbors due to their experience of punishment and betrayal (Tang 2005).9 Since 1978, economic reforms have led to growing socio-economic stratifications, individualization, residential separation of families into…...
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