Getting more than we give - realities of volunteerism: Ian Breckenridge-Jackson at TEDxUCR
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Ian Breckenridge-Jackson is completing his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He specializes in race, gender, and class inequality with an emphasis in social movements. Ian was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a grant from the University of California Center for New Racial Studies for his work studying volunteerism and activism in post-Katrina New Orleans. His work has appeared in Policy Matters, the Routledge International Handbook of World-Systems Analysis, the second edition of Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, and the Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America (forthcoming). Ian is a co-founder and executive director of the Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum in New Orleans, an entirely free and volunteer-run museum and oral history project dedicated the Lower Ninth Ward, which continues to struggle against its erasure nearly ten years after Hurricane Katrina. The mission of the Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum is to promote community empowerment through remembering the past, sharing stories of the present, and planning for the future.
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Thank you for being bold enough to be blunt and honest!!!
Very very true. One way to repay the debt is teach the affected people some valuable life lessons while you volunteer there. Provide them hope and guidance when you interact with them, which they can use and benefit and remember you for the rest of their life. One of the policies for me is: when you go all the way to visit a country or place under the umbrella of doing volunteer work, give the affected people valuable life lessons while helping them. They will thank you for the rest of their life not the food you fed them, the lessons and hope you gave them. You will never be endebted.
MrRWF2004 I'd say I learned and record more when I go - why does it sound like you think yourself superior to them? You sound like a bigot
LarukuFangirl I don't think I am superior to them or anybody. For that matter no one is superior to anyone. When things are not going as it should be during worst situations it's human nature to feel depressed and feel down. It's the responsibility of others to provide them hope and guidance to fight. Not many do that. Just feeding them will make them feel bad about themselves and feel they are inferior to people who provide. That's my point.
Wonderful presentation by a fabulous professor! Professor Breckenridge-Jackson!! :D
He speaks the truth.
wow this talk really has the potential to open the worlds eyes.
He is an amazing professor
He’s super hot too
brilliant! Thank you for sharing this Talk!
bro this talk just blew my mind away lol
very inspiring well done!!!!!!!
Damn that microphone is SO SMALL.
Who paid the travel and food expenses? Did the volunteers pay the $1000 for the week? That cost benefit balance is laughable. That kind of stuff is why I always volunteer instead of donating to charities. The money far too often gets wasted or placed in the hands of people you don't want. Giving time generally lets you see first hand how things work and how to make a contribution that matters. If I went on that trip, I'd be a bit embarrassed to be associated with the group but I'd rather be the one having that experience than the one donating $20 unknowingly for a tourist's breakfast.
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Really interesting !
I thought this was Tyrell from the thumbnail lol
yes. 👍
how did you arrive at $18.77/hr? isn't construction a rather low skill labour?
actually no. Costruction is a pretty high paying job for being an industry that's technical and not college degree needed. In Fl the average construction workers akes $15-$17 ph
Additionally there's other studies about volunteerism that say an average volunteer worked hours is $20
Oh! :o
I didn't know that were the figures in the U.S thanks!
@@YuuTurnCos not just in the USA. There's European and Japanese studies I read that give the same digits:a volunteer's work is rated between $17 to $25 dollars per hour ... It's not common for this research to be available as it is said that It can cause the volunteers to feel discouraged. For me, as a nonprofit volunteer and manager I feel proud when I donate my time because I know how valuable it is on $ signs
@@LeonorisLibre That is so little pay. My partner makes $70 something an hour as journeyman carpenter.
You're being honest :)
The real disasters are yet to come.
I think your conclusions are ill-founded. Sorry. To say that it's institutional racism is a stretch. The real problem lies with seeing relief as the solution to "helping others" when relief is never designed as a long term solution in the first place. Thus why so many are still suffering today. Please please read "when helping hurts"
Kate O'Holleran Well at the very least ignorance, discrimination and prejudice is definitely a problem causing voluntourism. There is something wrong when a volunteer takes a selfie with an orphan to exploit the child.
I love how the lighter pigmentation folks want has to deny institutional racism... Specially when the information is coming from a sociologist who SPECIALIZES in race disparities... But sure, there's no racism Kate... SMH
Why is this guy so bland to listen to.... Listening to this for class, and it's killing me to even follow along, he makes me have two second attention span as I am trying to hear him talk..... Never had any problems with not being able to follow along. This dude seriously needs some oral speech communication classes real bad.
Somebody please tell me what his endpoint was; the conclusion (of his speech, like an essay)?