CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Novikov, Egor |
|---|---|
| Title | A Good Shepherd Makes the Best Sheep: Volunteering in Kalighat Home for the Dying Destitutes as a Transgression Based Educative Practice |
| Summary | This paper studies international volunteering in Kalighat Home for the Dying Destitutes run by Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa in Kolkata as an experience of liminal transition. I argue that volunteers during their work in the shelter undergo a personal transformation under the influence of transgressive experience of touching dirt, death and body of the Other. Guided by the ritualized flow of daily routine and surrounding examples of self-neglecting service, they embody values of Christian love (caritas), which allow them to manage some basic tensions inherent to humanitarian work. Thereby, liminal experience of volunteering in Kalighat Home acts as an educative practice which forms subjects of pastoral power prepared to function in the framework of contemporary humanitarianism. |
| Supervisor | Naumescu, Vlad; Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/novikov_egor.pdf |
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