Navigating the boundaries of active global citizenship

Lough, Benjamin J.; McBride, Amanda Moore

doi:10.1111/tran.12035

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“…The work surrounding global citizenship has received far less attention in the context of environmental volunteering [8], often focusing on volunteering in general [51][52][53]. Smith and Laurie [52] demonstrated (through secondary data) how international volunteering highlights individual autonomy, improvement and responsibility, while simultaneously "allying itself to notions of collective global citizenship, solidarity, development and activism" [52] (p 545).…”

Section: Global Citizenshipmentioning

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Examining Millennials’ Global Citizenship Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions to Engage in Environmental Volunteering

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Volunteering for nature conservation has become an important resource in solving local environmental problems of global importance. The study at hand assessed how well millennials’ global citizenship attitudes explain their behavioral intentions to engage in volunteer projects, as well as how prior experience of volunteering in environmental projects affects millennials’ global citizenship attitudes. Those who reported past participation in this type of volunteer experience were generally more inclined to partake in future environmental volunteering than those without prior experience. Likewise, for those with prior experience, global citizen factors played a greater role in intentions to experience environmental volunteering. This study makes valuable contributions to the literature surrounding nature conservation, as it illustrates that millennials’ global citizenship attitudes predict participation in environmental volunteering. This work concludes with insights concerning what programs (that provide millennials with opportunities to fulfill environmental duties associated with their global environmental citizenship) can do to provide a more valuable experience for young volunteers.

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Section: Global Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Millennials’ Global Citizenship Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions to Engage in Environmental Volunteering

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“…Brown, ; Butcher & Smith, ; Mostafanezhad, ; Sin, ), move beyond aid‐framed relationships (Palacios, ) or become and act as global citizens (e.g. Lough & McBride, ; Lyons, Hanley, Wearing, & Neil, ). Volunteer tourism scholarship has examined volunteer identity, authenticity and emotions, including providing a growing body of research on international volunteering and affect (e.g.…”

Section: A Partial Geography Of International Volunteeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unsettling geographies of volunteering and development

Laurie

Smith

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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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. K E Y W O R D Sbiographies, flattened topographies, international development, relational space, temporalities, volunteering | INTRODUCTIONIn his article "The geography of volunteer tourism: place matters", James Keese (2011) argues that destination is primary in the recruitment of international volunteers by non-government organisations (NGOs). Here we question the dominance of international volunteers in development volunteering scholarship and explore geography as more than place and destination. We interrogate the geographical imaginary that frames volunteering research and examine the extent to which current geographies of volunteering are able to contain the tensions and contradictions associated with contemporary international development, and their transcendence of established North-South spatial imaginaries. We argue that the "global work" (Jones, 2008) of wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/tran | 95

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“…A study with long‐term volunteers in Australia found that international volunteering was a form of "extreme acclimatisation" to the international business environment (Fee & Gray, , p. 531) which enabled volunteers to develop and practice a whole raft of soft skills including cross‐cultural communication and language skills, skills in communicating ideas, negotiating, influencing and persuading. A US study with short‐term volunteers also identified intercultural understanding and cross‐cultural communication and language skills as “international social capital” gained by the volunteers (Lough & McBride, ). Although some researchers are sceptical about Northern employers' receptiveness to the soft skills volunteers gain in developing countries (Noxolo, ), prospects for career advancement and gaining work experience in the international arena play an important part in the decision to volunteer abroad (McBride, Lough, & Sherraden, ; Trau, ).…”

Section: Relationships In International Volunteeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

International volunteering in a changing aidland

Schech

2017

Geography Compass

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The growing diversity of North – South international volunteerism challenges the widely accepted distinction between volunteering for development as a long‐standing component of official development assistance and the more recent phenomenon of volunteer tourism as a private sector led commercial endeavour focused primarily on the personal growth of the volunteer. This paper reviews recent research that blurs this distinction by placing international volunteering within the geographical imaginaries of development and the neoliberal practices of governance of aidland. It focuses on four themes tackled in recent research: i) the ways in which neoliberal ideologies have shaped the motivations, goals, practices and governance of international volunteering; ii) the contexts in which international volunteering can foster more equitable relationships between Northern and Southern development actors; iii) what roles emotion and affect play in these relationships, and iv) the extent to which international volunteering can offer a critical perspective on the rules, logics and ideologies of aidland. The main argument is that while neoliberal conceptualisations of development have evidently shaped international volunteering, they do not fully capture the relational and experiential impacts of volunteering. The technologies of proximity afforded by volunteering can lead to critical and transformative insights into development and aidland, particularly when volunteers are embedded in local organisations over a longer time.

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Navigating the boundaries of active global citizenship

Cited by 26 publications

References 61 publications

Examining Millennials’ Global Citizenship Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions to Engage in Environmental Volunteering

Examining Millennials’ Global Citizenship Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions to Engage in Environmental Volunteering

Unsettling geographies of volunteering and development

International volunteering in a changing aidland

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