L'appel de Calcutta : continuités, ruptures et réappropriations chez les expatriés humanitaires en Inde

Authors

  • Nadia Giguère Université de Montréal

Keywords:

India, humanitarianism, representations, experiences, reflexivity, liminality

Abstract

Through the accounts of humanitarian workers in
Calcutta who chose expatriation, we shall explore how repre-
sentations of the self and of the other are transformed through
the experience of volunteering and by borrowing from history
and fantasy. While classical representations dating back to the
colonial period and the development of volunteer tourism keep
modeling the Western experience, we also note that experiences
of emancipation and a new sense of belonging support together
the expatriation project. Meanwhile, transnational practices
reinforce feelings of alienation towards Western lifestyles. The
article suggests that the expatriates' liminal status allows social
disjuncture as well as historical reproduction of the relation-
ship to the other.

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Published

2022-03-11

How to Cite

Giguère, N. (2022). L’appel de Calcutta : continuités, ruptures et réappropriations chez les expatriés humanitaires en Inde. Anthropologica, 53(1), 89–101. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/988

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 1 (2011): Changes of Place: Interrogating the Continuities and Disjunctures of Movement

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Copyright (c) 2011 Nadia Giguère

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