Weaponized volunteering' and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2306345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Itamar Y Shachar (0000-0003-1459-6469, Ghent University, corresponding author), Nir Gazit (0000-0002-8807-6530, Ruppin Academic Center), Erella Grassiani (0000-0003-0722-400X, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-213 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00113921221095964 |
| OpenAlex | W4281674631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 76 |
This introductory chapter to the monograph issue Weaponized Volunteering explicates and situates the theoretical and conceptual problems the collection addresses. It defines the concept of 'weaponized volunteering' and analyzes its importance for understanding the relations between contemporary trends of moralization and militarization or securitization. It does so by providing a brief genealogy of the concept of 'volunteering' and the rising public interest in it since the 1990s, with the upsurge of neoliberal transformations and a post-political public sphere. The introduction then continues to review changing ideas in the literature concerning civil-military relationships and also concerning the entanglement of what is considered civil and what falls under non-military 'security' domains. It then connects both themes to explain the value of the concept of 'weaponized volunteering'. Finally, the introduction explores how the various articles in this monograph issue contribute to understanding how moralization and militarization, civic volunteerism, and securitization are increasingly entangled, and reinforce each other
Civil society · Economics · Law and economics · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Securitization · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Sex work and related issues · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Neoliberalism as Exception
Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities
Elements of the Philosophy of ‘Right’
Military, Masculinity, and Citizenship
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
The contested politics of mobility
Waiting for Jose
The Failure of Civil Society
Ethical Security Studies
The Anthropology of Security
Avoiding Politics
Security
Powers of Freedom
Defining Who is a Volunteer
Firearm Instrumentality
Military (Non-)Policing in the Occupied Territories
Securitization theory and securitization studies
Securitizing capital
Opening Up the “Black Box” of “Volunteering”
Beyond ambivalence
The Copenhagen School on Tour in Kyrgyzstan
Varieties of militarism
The White Management of ‘Volunteering’
Explaining Satisfaction with Volunteering in Emergencies
Civicness
Adventures in Aidland. The anthropology of professionals in international development
The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School
Cowboys and Professionals’
Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times
Altruism and Volunteerism
The Study of War and the Military in Israel
Technology of Self, Technology of Power. Volunteering as Encounter in Guangzhou, China
Morality of Security
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Sacrificial Citizenship
Spaces at the intersections of militarism and humanitarianism
Patterns of militarism in Israel
We are not ignorant
The three anthropological approaches to neoliberalism
Community, Citizenship, and the third Way
Volunteer Armed Forces and Military Purpose
The Nation-State and Violence
Rethinking the Public Sphere
Between Facts and Norms
Anthropological Theory
The Moral Neoliberal
The Difference that Citizenship Makes
Making War at Home in the United States
Critical Security and Anthropology from the Middle East
Anthropology of security and security in anthropology
Extending Conceptual Boundaries
Settling the Neoliberal Contradiction through Corporate Volunteering
Juggling Logics on the Egyptian-Israeli Borderland
The Logic of Crisis and Civil-Military Relations Theory
Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies
The Military
Feminism and Military Gender Practices
Civic Action
Toward a Critical Anthropology of Security
Spectacles of migrant 'illegality
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |