Keywords: volunteering, welfare, mental health, aging, care, well-being Abstract My research, based on an ethnographic action research approach, explores two case studies in the context of community welfare. Both are voluntary associations, ODV, active in a city in Emilia Romagna, they operate fundamentally to ensure assistance and well-being for people in a situation of proven fragility, as a result of mental distress, in one of the cases analyzed and the other instead oriented to favor the maintenance of personal autonomy, socialization and cognitive capacity of the very elderly, the segment of the population with an average age of over eighty. These two contexts, governed by the organization of volunteers, both in management and assistance functions, in taking care of specific population needs, also represent spaces of democratic experimentation, in which the processes of commoning - understood as collaborative practices of construction and management of common resources - open up new possibilities for rethinking welfare in light of the demands of inclusion and participation. The anthropological perspective allows us to examine care not only as a response to material needs, but as a practice of social reproduction that embodies relations of power, gender and class. Critical ethnography proves to be an essential tool for deconstructing welfare not only as an institutional system, but as a field of political and symbolic struggle.
La mia ricerca, fondata su un approccio di ricerca-azione etnografica, nella quale adotto la duplice prospettiva di osservatrice e volontaria, esplora due casi di studio nel contesto del welfare di comunità: le associazioni di volontariato (ODV) Insieme a Noi, che opera nel campo del disagio psichico, e l'associazione G.P. Vecchi (ODV) e la supervisione del Centro Patologie Cognitive , Azienda Sanitaria locale, Modena organizza nelle Palestre della Memoria, attività per la prevenzione del decadimento cognitivo dei grandi anziani, Questi due contesti rappresentano spazi di sperimentazione democratica, in cui i processi di commoning — intesi come pratiche collaborative di costruzione e gestione di risorse comuni — aprono nuove possibilità per ripensare il welfare alla luce delle istanze di inclusione e partecipazione promosse dall'amministrazione comunale nel progetto di riforma del welfare di comunità. La prospettiva antropologica consente di esaminare questa forma del prendersi cura, mediante il contributo esclusivo del volontariato, non solo come una risposta ai bisogni materiali, ma come una pratica di riproduzione sociale che incorpora relazioni di potere e genere. L'etnografia critica si rivela uno strumento essenziale per decostruire il welfare non solo come sistema istituzionale, ma come campo di lotta politica e simbolica.
Welfare di comunità e volontariato, un'etnografia delle relazioni tra attori sociali.
GUIDI, ALDA
2024/2025
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Keywords: volunteering, welfare, mental health, aging, care, well-being Abstract My research, based on an ethnographic action research approach, explores two case studies in the context of community welfare. Both are voluntary associations, ODV, active in a city in Emilia Romagna, they operate fundamentally to ensure assistance and well-being for people in a situation of proven fragility, as a result of mental distress, in one of the cases analyzed and the other instead oriented to favor the maintenance of personal autonomy, socialization and cognitive capacity of the very elderly, the segment of the population with an average age of over eighty. These two contexts, governed by the organization of volunteers, both in management and assistance functions, in taking care of specific population needs, also represent spaces of democratic experimentation, in which the processes of commoning - understood as collaborative practices of construction and management of common resources - open up new possibilities for rethinking welfare in light of the demands of inclusion and participation. The anthropological perspective allows us to examine care not only as a response to material needs, but as a practice of social reproduction that embodies relations of power, gender and class. Critical ethnography proves to be an essential tool for deconstructing welfare not only as an institutional system, but as a field of political and symbolic struggle.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14251/3188