Governing Through Volunteering: The Discursive Field of Government-Initiated Volunteering in the Form of Workfare Volunteering. (April 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Governing Through Volunteering: The Discursive Field of Government-Initiated Volunteering in the Form of Workfare Volunteering. (April 2019)
- Main Title:
- Governing Through Volunteering: The Discursive Field of Government-Initiated Volunteering in the Form of Workfare Volunteering
- Authors:
- De Waele, Els
Hustinx, Lesley - Other Names:
- Brudney Jeffrey L. guest-editor.
Handy Femida guest-editor.
Meijs Lucas C.P.M. guest-editor. - Abstract:
- Increasing third-party intervention in volunteering represents a key change in the environment of volunteering. One significant expression is "workfare volunteering": the governmental use of volunteering to foster the economic and/or social reintegration of social assistance recipients. We contribute to existing theory on "third-party volunteering" by studying the shifting discursive field in which volunteering becomes re-entangled with workfare volunteering. Our contribution is based on a governmentality-inspired discourse analysis of internal documents on workfare volunteering in one Belgian social assistance center. We conclude that workfare volunteering entails a strong violation of "voluntary" and "unpaid" properties of volunteering, relegates volunteering to an inferior status relative to paid work, and depicts workfare volunteers as suffering from a clear deficit: the inability to work under regular labor market condition. Through the discursive entanglement of various citizenship frames, the workfare volunteer is cast as an ever-aspiring, yet permanently failing citizen.
- Is Part Of:
- Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly. Volume 48:Number 2(2019) Supplment
- Journal:
- Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly
- Issue:
- Volume 48:Number 2(2019) Supplment
- Issue Display:
- Volume 48, Issue 2, Part 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 2
- Part:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0048-0002-0001
- Page Start:
- 72S
- Page End:
- 102S
- Publication Date:
- 2019-04
- Subjects:
- third-party volunteering -- workfare volunteering -- governing through volunteering -- governmentality perspective
Nonprofit organizations -- Periodicals
Voluntarism -- Periodicals
Charity organization -- Periodicals
361.763 - Journal URLs:
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0899764018783094 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0899-7640
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- Legaldeposit
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