‘Ordinary people like myself’: character work and modesty in the Refugees Welcome movement
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- dc.contributor.author Monforte, Pierre
- dc.contributor.author Dijk, Teun Adrianus van, 1943-
- dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-05T07:05:39Z
- dc.date.available 2023-07-05T07:05:39Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract This article uses discourse analysis to investigate how British volunteers involved in the Refugees Welcome movement give an account of their engagement and of the changes that they aim to achieve through their actions. Focusing on the different ways participants ‘do modesty’ when they present their actions and their own role within the movement, we show that ‘character work’ – their effort to shape their own reputation – is an essential feature of their discourse. In particular, we show that, by presenting themselves as 'modest' and 'ordinary' participants, they aim to display a character that is distinct from the heroic figure of the social activist and the humanitarian actor. In so doing, they construct a character that resists categorisations and an engagement which aims to appeal to universal values and emotions.
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- dc.identifier.citation Monforte P, van Dijk TA. ‘Ordinary people like myself’: character work and modesty in the Refugees Welcome movement. J Civ Soc. 2023;19(1):20-36. DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2023.2206154
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2023.2206154
- dc.identifier.issn 1744-8689
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57472
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Civil Society. 2023;19(1):20-36.
- dc.rights © 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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- dc.subject.keyword Refugees Welcome
- dc.subject.keyword character work
- dc.subject.keyword modesty
- dc.subject.keyword discourse
- dc.subject.keyword volunteering
- dc.title ‘Ordinary people like myself’: character work and modesty in the Refugees Welcome movement
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