Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in Philadelphia
Recent research has critically evaluated the rapid growth of volunteer urban environmental stewardship. Framings of this phenomenon have largely focused upon environmentality and/or neoliberal environments, unfortunately often presenting a totalising picture of the state and/or market utilising powe...
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| description | Recent research has critically evaluated the rapid growth of volunteer urban environmental stewardship. Framings of this phenomenon have largely focused upon environmentality and/or neoliberal environments, unfortunately often presenting a totalising picture of the state and/or market utilising power from above to create environmental subjects with limited agency available to local citizens. Based upon qualitative research with volunteer urban environmental stewards in Philadelphia, affective labour is proposed as an alternative explanation for participation. Stewards volunteered their time and labour due to the intense emotional attachments they formed with their neighbourhoods, neighbours, and nonhuman others in relationships of affective labour. Volunteer urban environmental stewardship as affective labour provides room for agency on the part of individuals and groups involved in volunteer urban environmental reproduction and opens up new ways of relating to and being with human and nonhuman others. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5b8bfc1147c4e0993a9001d9aef44b42022-12-22T00:56:01ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsConservation & Society0972-49232018-01-01161526310.4103/cs.cs_16_49Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in PhiladelphiaAlec FosterRecent research has critically evaluated the rapid growth of volunteer urban environmental stewardship. Framings of this phenomenon have largely focused upon environmentality and/or neoliberal environments, unfortunately often presenting a totalising picture of the state and/or market utilising power from above to create environmental subjects with limited agency available to local citizens. Based upon qualitative research with volunteer urban environmental stewards in Philadelphia, affective labour is proposed as an alternative explanation for participation. Stewards volunteered their time and labour due to the intense emotional attachments they formed with their neighbourhoods, neighbours, and nonhuman others in relationships of affective labour. Volunteer urban environmental stewardship as affective labour provides room for agency on the part of individuals and groups involved in volunteer urban environmental reproduction and opens up new ways of relating to and being with human and nonhuman others.http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2018;volume=16;issue=1;spage=52;epage=63;aulast=FosterEnvironmental IdentitiesAffective LabourEnvironmentalityNeoliberalismVolunteerismPhiladelphia |
| spellingShingle | Alec Foster Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in Philadelphia Conservation & Society Environmental Identities Affective Labour Environmentality Neoliberalism Volunteerism Philadelphia |
| title | Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in Philadelphia |
| title_full | Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in Philadelphia |
| title_fullStr | Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in Philadelphia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in Philadelphia |
| title_short | Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in Philadelphia |
| title_sort | volunteer environmental stewardship and affective labour in philadelphia |
| topic | Environmental Identities Affective Labour Environmentality Neoliberalism Volunteerism Philadelphia |
| url | http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2018;volume=16;issue=1;spage=52;epage=63;aulast=Foster |
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