Walking and talking with volunteers: what does walking offer the study of volunteering, space and place?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan Daly ◽  
Michele Allen
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Physiological Movement

Abstract The walking interview is used to explore the lived experiences and meanings individuals attach to place(s). Despite scholarly interest in place and volunteering, attention to the walking interview is lacking. This article presents an exploratory study, which invited five volunteers to participate in a walking interview. Our aim is to discuss the walking interview to expand the range of methodologies employed in research on volunteering, particularly volunteering and place. The walking interview has novel implications for the conceptualization of volunteers and for the meanings individuals identify in their volunteer experience(s). Volunteers can be conceptualized as mobile subjects to explore the implications of physiological movement in place for the volunteer experience. Walking can unearth the significance of emotions and memories to volunteers’ negotiation of the ‘everyday politics’ of volunteering. The mobility of people and objects in sites of volunteering are salient as they reveal embodied aspects of the volunteer experience.

scholarly journals The Everyday Life of Security: Capturing Space, Practice, and Affect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonna Nyman
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Participatory Photography ◽  
High Politics ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Abstract Security shapes everyday life, but despite a growing literature on everyday security there is no consensus on the meaning of the “everyday.” At the same time, the research methods that dominate the field are designed to study elites and high politics. This paper does two things. First, it brings together and synthesizes the existing literature on everyday security to argue that we should think about the everyday life of security as constituted across three dimensions: space, practice, and affect. Thus, the paper adds conceptual clarity, demonstrating that the everyday life of security is multifaceted and exists in mundane spaces, routine practices, and affective/lived experiences. Second, it works through the methodological implications of a three-dimensional understanding of everyday security. In order to capture all three dimensions and the ways in which they interact, we need to explore different methods. The paper offers one such method, exploring the everyday life of security in contemporary China through a participatory photography project with six ordinary citizens in Beijing. The central contribution of the paper is capturing—conceptually and methodologically—all three dimensions, in order to develop our understanding of the everyday life of security.

scholarly journals The banality of WhatsApp: On the everyday politics of backstage activism in Mexico and Spain

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiliano Treré
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Drawing on interviews with social movements and organizations in Mexico and Spain, this paper sheds light on the dynamics of ‘backstage activism’ with a focus on WhatsApp. It illustrates how activists have integrated this app into their media ecologies to reinforce collective identity, cement internal solidarity and lower the pressure of protest. It shows that within WhatsApp groups, campaigners have countered the paranoia experienced in the frontstage of social media exchanging ironical material and intimate messages. It demonstrates that WhatsApp has been used as a robust organizational device and it is now firmly integrated into the mechanisms of organizations and movements. Its communicative affordances (speed, reliability, mobility, multimediality) in conjunction with the omnipresent smartphone are often emphasized. Nuancing characterizations that tend to either disregard its role or stress its negative side, this qualitative exploration foregrounds the banality of WhatsApp. This article unpacks the multiple roles of this app within the submerged practices of movements and organizations.

The ironic state: British comedy and the everyday politics of globalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 1641-1643
Author(s):  
Zoe Walker
Keyword(s):  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics

The everyday politics of international intervention

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-136
Author(s):  
Janosch Neil Kullenberg
Keyword(s):  
International Intervention ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics

The Everyday Politics of Migration Crisis in Poland

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Jaskulowski
Keyword(s):  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Migration Crisis

scholarly journals Bringing the Arts to the Everyday Lived Experiences of Young Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-295
Author(s):  
Marni J. Binder
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Art Forms

The purpose of this arts-based education research was to explore the complex art forms in Bali, Indonesia, for a cross-cultural understanding of the everyday importance of the arts in the teaching and learning of young children. Five Balinese artists and one Javanese artist were interviewed to discuss their journeys as artists from a young age, their practicing art forms, and perceptions of the importance of the arts in their communities, cultural identity, and in the everyday lived experiences of children. While there is literature on the historical and complex art forms of Bali, giving context to the importance of time and place and hierarchies of the culture, little is documented on the interconnection between the arts as a paradigm that shapes culture and informs an understanding of the arts as important to teaching and learning. This research experience aimed to deepen the researcher’s understanding of how the arts are embodied and woven together in Balinese culture, and how this knowledge can be connected to the teaching and learning of children in the Canadian context.

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