‘You're the one that I want’: differentiating between beneficiaries in voluntary organizations

IF 1.2 4区管理学 Q4 MANAGEMENT

Culture and Organization Pub Date : 2023-01-14 DOI:10.1080/14759551.2023.2167083

Anna Wettermark

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper examines differentiations between beneficiaries in voluntary organizations. Drawing on the writings of Ahmed and Bauman, the paper suggests that beneficiaries are socially constructed through efforts to assist them and according to complex and varied criteria that combine immediate ‘re-cognition’ of otherhood with attention to the ‘achievements’ of beneficiaries, i.e. how well beneficiaries narrate and perform their assimilability. Taking the case of language cafés as an example, the study suggests that differentiations between beneficiaries emerge not only according to essentialist criteria, but also according to how convincingly beneficiaries express optimism about the future, intention to contribute to local community, and willingness to shed their past, and how respectful of boundaries they appear in the eyes of selves. Relational, narrative, and ideological dimensions then complement essentialist criteria to influence if/how others are included, implying that identities of both selves and others need to be seen as relational and context dependent.

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“你就是我想要的人”：区分志愿组织中的受益人

摘要本文考察了志愿组织中受益人之间的差异。该论文借鉴了Ahmed和Bauman的著作，认为受益人是通过帮助他们的努力，并根据复杂多样的标准进行社会建构的，这些标准将对他人身份的即时“重新认知”与对受益人“成就”的关注相结合，即受益人叙述和表现其可同化性的程度。以语言咖啡馆为例，研究表明，受益人之间的差异不仅根据本质主义标准，还根据受益人对未来的乐观态度、为当地社区做出贡献的意愿以及摆脱过去的意愿，以及他们在自我眼中是多么尊重界限。关系、叙事和意识形态维度补充了本质主义标准，以影响他人是否/如何被包括在内，这意味着自我和他人的身份都需要被视为关系和上下文相关的。

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Culture and Organization MANAGEMENT-

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3.20

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Culture and Organization was founded in 1995 as Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies . It represents the intersection of academic disciplines that have developed distinct qualitative, empirical and theoretical vocabularies to research organization, culture and related social phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as organizational, communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The Journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understanding of organizational phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understand-ing of organizational phenomena.