{"id":2489,"date":"2021-11-27T01:10:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/anthropology-of-aid\/?page_id=2489"},"modified":"2022-11-28T21:05:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:05:35","slug":"2021-2022-immaterial-labour-in-aidland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/anthropology-of-aid\/the-issues\/professions-of-doing-good\/2021-2022-immaterial-labour-in-aidland\/","title":{"rendered":"(2021-2022) Immaterial labour in ‘Aidland’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Written by Lizzie Cramb, Aniqah Farris, Ros Little, Libby Mercer, Moosa Ma-il Mohamed, Matilda Ponsoby, and Hassan Qureshi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Disclaimer – Ethics<\/em><\/p>\n

The situation in Afghanistan may be distressing for students. We hope that this lesson will be navigated with responsibility and sensitivity to prioritise the wellbeing of students to ensure a safe environment and a positive lesson.<\/p>\n

Consider that some of the students may have personal relations or experiences with this topic. Trigger warnings can include but are not limited to: violence, war, guns, sexual assault<\/em><\/p>\n

Aims<\/h1>\n

\u00a0(Learning Outcomes):<\/p>\n

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  1. Students should be able to summarise the \u2018Aidland\u2019 approach<\/li>\n
  2. Students should be able to compare and contrast material labour vs immaterial labour<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Students should address\/discuss emotional and moral labour, and confront their differences and consistencies in the context of aid work<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Background<\/h1>\n

    The aim of our lesson is for students to look at and understand immaterial labour through the lens of \u2018Aidland\u2019. Aidland is an approach coined by Raymond Apthrope (2005) that focuses on the lives, motivations, and professional work of the aid workers themselves, rather than the aid recipients or governments, and policies that distribute and manage aid. It takes into account that aid workers may be detached from the reality in which they are working and perceive their actions differently from what the consequences suggest, and thus allows us an insight into the ways that aid workers organise and understand their own lives and worlds (Mosse, 2011). This approach is beneficial as it helps us understand the unintended consequences that derive from everyday practices of aid workers, rather than from bureaucratic means or systematic failure, and allows us to maintain a level of critique while exploring the ethical motivations of aid workers. By looking at immaterial labour vs material labour and ideas of moral and emotional labour through this lens, we can explore the motivations behind aid work from the perspective of the workers themselves.<\/p>\n

    Requirements<\/h1>\n

    Target number of students = 30<\/p>\n

    Space to split students into a small and large group<\/p>\n

    Resources<\/h1>\n