Volunteer Economies

The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2700432
AutoresAnn H Kelly (0000-0003-4658-2133), Hannah Brown (0000-0001-7933-3024), Ruth Prince
Ano2016
Páginas280
Data de publicação2016-05-19
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoVolunteer Economies (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBoydell and Brewer Limited (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/9781782046691
OpenAlexW3174139348
Open LibraryOL34528795M
ISBN9781782046691
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17

Across Africa today, as development activities animate novel forms of governance, new social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been the real impact of volunteers economically, politically and in society? The interdisciplinary experts in this collection examine the practices of volunteers - both international and local - and ideologies of volunteerism. They show the significance of volunteerism to processes of social and economic transformation, and political projects of national development and citizenship, as well as to individual aspirations in African societies. These case studies - from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Sierra Leone and Malawi - examine everyday experiences of volunteerism and trajectories of voluntary work, trace its broader historical, political and economic implications, and situate African experiencesof voluntary labour within global exchanges and networks of resources, ideas and political technologies. Offering insights into changing configurations of work, citizenship, development and social mobility, the authors offer new perspectives on the relations between labour, identity and social value in Africa. Ruth Prince is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at the Universityof Oslo; with her co-author Wenzel Geissler, she won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for their book The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Hannah Brown is a lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University

Citizenship · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development · Africa · Economic conditions · Ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit · Ethik · Human services · International cooperation · Labor service · Public policy · Social Science · Social Services & Welfare · Staat · Voluntarism · Volunteers · Wirtschaftsentwicklung