The past decades have seen a rise in religious and secular responses to inequality that seek to offer those who are relatively wealthy an opportunity to personally engage with impoverished people and places. This article examines three cases of elite white South Africans who intentionally immersed themselves in poor urban environments. In dialogue with the anthropology of ethics, I argue that immersion was seen as an experimental tool for transforming the self and cultivating virtues of empathy and responsibility towards others. In this way, immersion acted as a technology of the self, linking care of the self to care of others. Yet such experimentation was not without risk. Though imagined as a tool that could promote care of the self and care of others, immersion carries with it the potential to reinforce power divides and/or solicit negative moral judgment.

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南非的白色城市浸入，主体间性和照护伦理

在过去的几十年中，宗教和世俗主义对不平等现象的反应有所增加，这些现象试图为相对富裕的人们提供与贫困人口和地方进行私人接触的机会。本文研究了三例故意使自己沉浸在恶劣的城市环境中的南非白人精英的情况。在与伦理人类学的对话中，我认为浸入被看作是一种改造自我，培养对他人的同理心和责任感的实验工具。这样，沉浸式作为自我的技术，将对自我的关心与对他人的关心联系起来。然而，这样的实验并非没有风险。尽管被认为是可以促进对自我和他人的关心的工具，