This paper critically engages with the implications of the “affect turn” in the geographies of development and volunteering. By way of considering “affective life” at a residential youth care centre in Peru through an ethnographic study, we aim to contribute to current discussions of “(self‐)transformation” taking place through affectivity in the experience of volunteering. Conceptually, our approach to investigating “affective life” and volunteering involves two steps. First, we critically review this body of work's recent focus on the individualistic mode of volunteer self‐transformation in encountering “vulnerable others.” We identify the need to think about affect and embodiment also from the perspectives of the “vulnerable” groups whose lives are entangled with the presence of international volunteering. Second, we argue for an affect‐informed approach to socio‐politically shaped vulnerability, with a particular emphasis on lived experiences and affective capacities related to enduring social and material conditions. Against the backdrop of marginalisation of adolescent mothers from rural and indigenous backgrounds, many of whom are survivors of sexual abuse, we analyse the experiences of these youths living at a specific residential care centre and interacting with volunteers on a daily basis. In doing so, we employ a series of perspectives from the residents, while taking into account the organisational environment. We also show the complex ways in which resident–volunteer encounters are at play in life‐enhancing affective states, capacities, and relations emerging among the residents. Our findings on the residents' self‐ and shared capacity of transformation highlights the importance of attending to the spatialities of affective life in academic work focused on the contemporary geographies of international volunteering.

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秘鲁库斯科住宅护理项目中的情感生活、“弱势”青年和国际志愿服务

本文批判性地探讨了“影响转向”在发展和志愿服务地理学中的含义。通过民族志研究来考虑秘鲁一家青年护理中心的“情感生活”，我们的目标是为当前关于通过志愿服务体验中的情感而发生的“（自我）转变”的讨论做出贡献。从概念上讲，我们调查“情感生活”和志愿服务的方法包括两个步骤。首先，我们批判性地回顾了这一系列最近关注的志愿者在遇到“弱势他人”时自我转变的个人主义模式。我们也确定需要从生活与国际志愿服务纠缠在一起的“弱势”群体的角度来考虑影响和体现。第二，我们主张对社会政治塑造的脆弱性采取一种基于情感的方法，特别强调与持久的社会和物质条件相关的生活经历和情感能力。在来自农村和土著背景的青少年母亲（其中许多是性虐待的幸存者）被边缘化的背景下，我们分析了这些年轻人住在特定住宿护理中心并每天与志愿者互动的经历。在这样做的过程中，我们采用了居民的一系列观点，同时考虑了组织环境。我们还展示了居民与志愿者的相遇在增强生活的情感状态、能力和居民之间出现的关系中发挥作用的复杂方式。我们对居民的调查结果