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URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/bureaucratic-literacies-community-volunt
 eering-and-social-change-in-the-philippines/
SUMMARY:Bureaucratic literacies\, community volunteering and social change 
 in the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 20 November\, 12:30-14:00 GMT\nFulton 212\, University
  of Sussex or Zoom Webinar\nRegister here\nPart of the series: CIE Researc
 h Cafés\nSpeaker: Dr Chris Millora\, Goldsmiths\n"In the Philippines\, l
 ocal volunteer action inspired by communal\, person-to-person solidarity c
 oexists with forms shaped by the formalised mechanisms of NGOs\, funders a
 nd government programmes. Drawing on my recent book Local Volunteering\, A
 dult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines (Bloomsbury Academic 20
 25)\, I explore how literacy and learning shape the ways bureaucratic forc
 es from state and non-state development actors influence the activities\, 
 relationships\, and identities of local volunteers. I will take a closer l
 ook into volunteers’ and other actors’ interactions with written texts
  such as the manuals they read\, certificates they received and documents 
 they were expected to produce. In doing so\, I demonstrate how literacy an
 d volunteering can\, counterintuitively\, reproduce and even intensify ine
 qualities within already unequal communities. This ‘critical’ view of 
 volunteering is important especially as the United Nations declares 2026 a
 s the International Year of Volunteering."\nTake a look at CIE's full even
 t schedule here
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CATEGORIES:Seminar,Webinar
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