Tupper Emily, Atkinson Sarah, Pollard Tessa M
Department of Anthropology and The Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Department of Geography and The Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Palgrave Commun. 2020 May 13;6:94. doi: 10.1057/s41599-020-0473-9.
The recent phenomenon of movement volunteering programmes is a form of 'fitness philanthropy' that combines exercise with volunteering in order for physical activity to generate a more widely shared set of benefits. These newest practices of fitness philanthropy radically rework both exercise and volunteering through the ways in which these come together and take place outdoors and in the everyday spaces of the street or community. The paper explores these new practices through the movement volunteering programme 'GoodGym', in relation to the concept of 'healthy publics'. Fieldwork comprised ethnography, including participant observation, interviews, go-along interviews, conversations, photography and an end of fieldwork discussion workshop. We focus on the experiences of three different constituencies in GoodGym: the volunteers; the participants and passers-by; the space and atmosphere. The formation of these dynamic, multiple and shifting healthy publics emerge through the complex intersections of several processes. We draw particular attention to the centrality in the new fitness philanthropy practices of visibility and spectacle, sociality and merging mobilities in constituting healthy publics.
近期出现的运动志愿服务项目是一种“健身慈善”形式，它将锻炼与志愿服务相结合，使体育活动能产生更广泛共享的一系列益处。这些最新的健身慈善实践通过将锻炼与志愿服务结合起来，并在户外以及街道或社区的日常空间中进行的方式，从根本上重塑了锻炼和志愿服务。本文通过运动志愿服务项目“善跑团”，结合“健康公众”的概念来探讨这些新实践。实地调查包括人种志研究，涵盖参与观察、访谈、随行访谈、对话、摄影以及一次实地调查结束后的讨论研讨会。我们关注善跑团中三个不同群体的经历：志愿者；参与者和路人；空间与氛围。这些动态、多元且不断变化的健康公众的形成，是通过几个过程的复杂交叉而出现的。我们特别关注在新的健身慈善实践中，可见性与奇观性、社交性以及融合的流动性在构建健康公众方面的核心地位。
