Engineering community spirit: the pre-figurative politics of affective citizenship in Dutch local governance

Wilde, Mandy de; Duyvendak, Jan Willem

doi:10.1080/13621025.2016.1229194

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“…Our findings indicate that participants' engagement in AFT simultaneously elicits hybrid forms of belonging to both homeland and receiving communities. This is evident in, for example, the way AFT participants liken their affective experience of the event to gezelligheid (sociability) that is a central aspect of Dutch culture (de Wilde and Duyvendak 2016). For example, Dutch Somali volunteer Roble (male,20s) argues that 'here they can feel safe and they have never had this much gezelligheid in Somalia.…”

Section: Transnational Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diaspora as aesthetic formation: community sports events and the making of a Somali diaspora

Spaaij

Broerse

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper uses the concept of aesthetic formation to examine the practices through which diasporic imaginations become tangible and experienced as 'real'. The authors interpret sport as an embodied aesthetic practice through which diasporas materialise, with important implications for identification and belonging. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on a transnational community-based sports event, the Amsterdam Futsal Tournament, the paper discusses how articulations of Somali diasporism become tangible and embodied in subjects who participate in this event. The authors conclude that these materialisation practices can simultaneously elicit multiple forms and levels of belonging that also foster a sense of integration and belonging to the nation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Transnational Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diaspora as aesthetic formation: community sports events and the making of a Somali diaspora

Spaaij

Broerse

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Through their interpellation of the body and the senses, food and games were also tools to get parents to start talking and interacting in other ways than those of a group discussion. These techniques play on mothers' domestic and child-rearing roles, rendering the discussion group a deeply gendered homely space (De Wilde and Duyvendak, 2016).…”

Section: Liberating Speech: Fun and Affectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circuiting parents’ voice: Parenting discussion groups and institutional healing in northeast Paris

Vollebergh

2020

Ethnography

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The discussion group is a common form of parenting support offered by associations in the pluri-ethnic, working-class neighborhoods of northeast Paris. Situated in a larger formation of voice that hails marginalized parents to speak, professionals engage with these discussion groups as potential social ‘transistors’: simultaneously circuiting parents’ voice inwards to restore parents’ agentive capacities and amplifying it outwards into an audible collective voice aimed at impacting state–citizen relations. In order to reach this double effect, professionals deploy ‘paralinguistic techniques’, which produce and combine intimate and civic, normative and alternative (semi-)public speech contexts. As a result, discussion groups emerge as pedagogical instances of a ‘Republican’ public sphere and its reworkings. Against the backdrop of anxieties of a disintegrating Republic and failing institutions, discussion groups highlight a desire for new conduits of citizenship, as well as the ways in which marginalized residents are called upon to invest these with their voice.

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“…Schinkel and Van Houdt, 2010) and perspectives on state pedagogies (Clarke, 2005; Newman, 2010; Newman and Tonkens, 2011) to study how precisely the Dutch state teaches its citizens to feel certain ways about their precarious position. Conceptualisations of ‘affective citizenship’ (Muehlebach, 2012; De Wilde, 2015) have drawn attention to the ways in which government now mobilises affects such as a sense of belonging (Duyvendak, 2011; De Wilde and Duyvendak, 2016) and compassion with others (Berlant 2004, Muehlebach, 2011). Following Andrea Muehlebach, we understand affective labour as central to the ‘unwaged labour regime’ that relies on producing ‘good feeling’, and is ‘valued by the state and other social actors’ because it presumably contributes to fostering social cohesion (2011: 61–62).…”

Section: Governing Precarity Through Affectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pedagogies of optimism: Teaching to ‘look forward’ in activating welfare programmes in the Netherlands

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Berg

2018

Critical Social Policy

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In the context of the Dutch welfare state, precarisation entails particular pedagogies: citizens are taught how to feel about being insecure through the techniques of (1) accepting; (2) controlling; and (3) imagining. Welfare activation thus focuses on teaching citizens to accept their precarious position, to embrace it and to prepare for its continuation while remaining optimistic about its discontinuation. Perhaps cruelly, then, the state teaches citizens to develop optimism towards certain imagined futures while at the same time acknowledging the unattainability of these futures. Importantly, case managers in Dutch welfare offices are often precarious themselves too, making the affective labour they perform both difficult and essential for themselves. Contemporary activation and workfare programmes are therefore best understood as characterised by insecurity and precarisation on both the receiving and the providing end of state–citizen encounters.

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Engineering community spirit: the pre-figurative politics of affective citizenship in Dutch local governance

Cited by 31 publications

References 52 publications

Diaspora as aesthetic formation: community sports events and the making of a Somali diaspora

Diaspora as aesthetic formation: community sports events and the making of a Somali diaspora

Circuiting parents’ voice: Parenting discussion groups and institutional healing in northeast Paris

Pedagogies of optimism: Teaching to ‘look forward’ in activating welfare programmes in the Netherlands

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