Activism, volunteering and citizenship
Lead Research Organisation:
Northumbria University
Department Name: Sch of Arts and Social Sciences
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Baillie Smith M
(2011)
Existing at the Interface: Indian NGO Activists as Strategic Cosmopolitans
in Antipode
Laurie N
(2018)
Unsettling geographies of volunteering and development
in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Matt Baillie Smith (Author)
(2010)
The personal is problematic : capturing activist biographies and NGO narratives in South India
Matt Baillie Smith (Author)
(2011)
International volunteering and development : neoliberal professionalisation and global citizenship today
in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
| Description | International volunteering, diaspora and development |
| Amount | £17,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Voluntary Service Overseas |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2011 |
| End | 08/2014 |
| Description | Activist life histories from Bangladesh, Philippines and UK : reflections on voluntary action |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Professor David Lewis, LSE, at the fifth seminar of the ESRC funded Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship seminar series: Biographies of Activism and Social Change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | An autobiographical vision of different modes of activism in the last half century |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper presentation considering issues around democracies, dictatorships and citizenship in South America. It will examine collective identities and "emergent" citizenship in relation to ethnicity and class. Relations of force will be considered as a defining issue in the current global crisis. The paper will discuss the potential and limits of Research-Action and volunteering and activism as a civilizational experience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Christianity and the university experience in contemporary England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This paper will introduce 'Christianity and the university experience in contemporary England', a new three-year project run collaboratively by Durham University, the University of Derby and the University of Chester and funded under the AHRC/ESRC's Religion and Society scheme. The project will explore the beliefs, values and social contribution of Christian undergraduate students at English universities, focusing on how faith identities are negotiated and constructed within university contexts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/powerpoint/1273387/auneandsharma.ppt |
| Description | Faith in action : faith-based organisations and service provision for homeless people |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) are key players in the provision of services for homeless people, and are major repositories of voluntary activity. Drawing upon the findings of a recent AHRC/ESRC-funded examination of the (evolving) role of FBOs within the homeless sector, this seminar will examine continuities and discontinuities between services provided by 'faith based' and 'secular' welfare organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/powerpoint/1273387/sarahjohnsen.ppt |
| Description | Feminism in water : from targeting women to questioning knowledge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Dr Margreet Zwarteveen, Wageningen University, at the fouth seminar of the ESRC-funded 'Activism, volunteering and citizenship seminar series, entitled 'Impact and links to policy and practice'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Feminism, activism and social change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Professor Janet Newman, Open University, at the fifth seminar of the ESRC-funded 'Activism, volunteering and citizenship' seminar series, entitled 'Biographies of activism and social change'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/socscience/socscieventspage/sem5/ |
| Description | From old dinosaurs to development professionals and marketeers : professionalisation trends and consequences in the INGO sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Bev Jones at the third seminar of the ESRC funded Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship seminar series: Processes of Professionalisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/socscience/socscieventspage/sem3/ |
| Description | Inconvenient data and 'the problem of politics' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Professor Molly Andrews, University of East London, at the 5th seminar of the ESRC-funded 'Activism, volunteering and citizenship' seminar series, entitled 'Biographies of activism and social change'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | International volunteering, development and diaspora |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to ESRC/Institute for Volunteering Research public policy seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Neoliberal women? : rethinking professionalisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Feminist analysts of neoliberalism usually argue that public institutions and collective identities have been usurped by processes associated with marketisation. Theirs is a narrative of loss; the decline of the nation-state, the privatisation of public services, the co-option of feminism, deepening gendered and racialised inequalities. In contrast this paper sees neoliberalism as constitutive, and focuses on new spatial imaginaries, governing practices, and political subjects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Pathways to impact |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Professor Charlie Jeffrey, Edinburgh University, at the fourth seminar of the ESRC-seminar series 'Activism, volunteering and citizenship'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Situating South Indian activist biographies and subjectivities : the personal is problematic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Dr Matt Baillie Smith and Dr Katy Jenkins (Northumbria University, at the fifth seminar of the ESRC funded Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship seminar series: Biographies of Activism and Social Change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | The impact of religious organisations in development : an example from South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Dr Barbara Bompani, Edinburgh University, at the fouth seminar of the ESRC-funded 'Activism, volunteering and citizenship' seminar series, entitled 'Impact and links to policy and practice'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/socscience/socscieventspage/sem4impact/ |
| Description | The place of trafficked women's biographies in anti-trafficking activism in Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Professor Nina Laurie, Newcastle University, at the fifth seminar of the ESRC funded Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship seminar series: Biographies of Activism and Social Change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | VSO - a journey through time and space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Judith Brodie, Director of VSO, at the first seminar of the ESRC funded Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship seminar series: 'Mapping the themes' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/socscience/socscieventspage/sem1map/ |
| Description | Young British global citizens : being on the receiving end of gappers and steppers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Maggie Anderson, Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the fifth seminar of the ESRC funded Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship seminar series: Biographies of Activism and Social Change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/socscience/socscieventspage/sem5/ |
| Description | Young evangelical Christians participating in faith-based international volunteering in Latin America |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This paper introduced an ongoing project that is investigating what happens to the religious identities and spiritual understandings of young evangelical Christians who have participated in faith-based international volunteering projects in Latin America. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/powerpoint/1273387/peterhopkins2.ppt |
| Description | Youth volunteering and emergent transnationalism : training for global (professional) work? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented by Dr Andrew Jones, Birkbeck, at the third seminar of the ESRC-funded 'Activism, volunteering and citizenship' seminar series, entitled 'Processes of professionalisation'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |