Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

Publication Title

Conservation and Society

Keywords

Environmental Identities, Affective Labour, Environmentality, Neoliberalism, Volunteerism, Philadelphia

Abstract

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.

Funding Source

This research was supported by funding from National Science Foundation grant (CBET – 1444745), “Sustainability Research Network: Integrated Urban infrastructure Solutions for Environmentally Sustainable, Healthy, and Livable Cities.”

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.4103/cs.cs_16_49

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I'm not sure which creative commons license it falls under: https://journals.lww.com/coas/fulltext/2018/16010/volunteer_environmental_stewardship_and_affective.6.aspx

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