Chain gang conservation: young people and environmental volunteering
Leyshon, M; Fish, R
Date: 1 January 2011
Publisher
University of Hertfordshire Press
Abstract
This chapter examines how young people come to be enrolled and engaged in
programmes of unpaid environmental conservation in rural areas. Set within a
theoretical debate regarding the nature of unpaid work and its relationship to voluntary
and coercive forms of environmental action, the chapter considers the principal
pathways ...
This chapter examines how young people come to be enrolled and engaged in
programmes of unpaid environmental conservation in rural areas. Set within a
theoretical debate regarding the nature of unpaid work and its relationship to voluntary
and coercive forms of environmental action, the chapter considers the principal
pathways through which people between the ages of 14-25 come to be involved in
efforts to protect and enhance rural landscapes and locales. Drawing on a combination
of extended survey and in-depth qualitative research in the west and south of rural
England, the chapter considers the systems of governance that surround the
organisation of these unpaid activities and considers how these activities are
rationalised and designed as practical and embodied experiences of citizenship. The
chapter argues that enhancing participation rests less on fostering more young
participants into the conservation sector than structuring these activities in more
productive ways. As a result the chapter argues for the need to include young people in
designing programmes of environmental work that take into consideration the
reciprocity between the natural and the social relations of environmental conservation.
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