2020
DOI: 10.1017/asr.2019.70
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Circuits of Compassion: The Affective Labor of Uganda’s Christian Orphan Choirs

Abstract: Uganda’s touring orphan choirs engage in a form of charity that is dependent on the mobility not only of money, but also of people and sentiments. Boyd considers the moral economies that underlie this ongoing project of compassionate “circulation.” If a key finding of the work on humanitarian affect has been how such “affective surpluses” mask inequalities between donors and recipients, this article considers how participants in charitable relationships conceive of dependency and indebtedness differently. Thes… Show more

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