Managing Unruliness
The (Anti-)Politics of Volunteer Management Practices in Faith-Based Organizations
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| ID | 4887355 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Thomas G Kirsch (0000-0002-6521-4128, Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz Konstanz Germany, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Fascículo | 3-4 |
| Páginas | 403-427 |
| Data de publicação | 2021-05-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666 |
| Editora | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700666-12340174 |
| OpenAlex | W3184653823 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 39 |
Based on an ethnographic analysis of volunteer management practices in faith-based organizations in Zambia, this article outlines the dilemmas that these organizations face when deploying volunteers. Due to financial constraints, most of these organizations have to rely on voluntary work from local residents in order to realize their goals. I show that when the volunteers' work is concerned with social problems that are deemed to be controversial, faith-based organizations are at pains to demonstrate that their aims and activities should be categorized as 'social work' or 'humanitarian assistance', and not as activist (party) political engagement. Yet since volunteers are only loosely linked to these organizations in respect to their formal status, in practice they have a great deal of leeway in how issues are handled. This means that some of them use their commitment to volunteering to pursue their own political agendas. The article explores the strategies that faith-based organizations use to navigate the challenges that this kind of 'partisan volunteering' pose
Business · Ethnography · Face (sociological concept) · Faith · Faith-Based Organizations · Order (exchange) · Participant observation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Law · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development · Sex work and related issues · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Ethnography in Organizations
Volunteer tourismDeconstructing volunteer activities within a dynamic environment
From the Division of Labor in Society
Doing Good? The Politics and Antipolitics of NGO Practices
Ethnography in/of the World System
Multi-Sited Ethnography
Weapons of the Weak
The Spirit of Development
Inside Organizations
The Volunteer Management Handbook
Powers of Freedom
Images of Care, Boundaries of the State
The Gift
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance
Scaling-up HIV/Aids and TB home-based care
Chiluba's Christian nation
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance
Protestant Mission Education in Zambia, 1880-1954
President Frederick J.T. Chiluba of Zambia
Practising Ecumenism Through Boundary Work and Meta-Coding
Education in Zambia
Education in Zambia
New Beginnings between Public and Private
Volunteering as a Lifestyle Choice
Make a Complete Break with the past.' Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse
Anthropology of Organizations
For Sociology
Forum
Compassionate and egalitarian
It's Just about being Fair
On Equal Ground
Volunteering
Moral Ambitions of Grace
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Infectious Disease Control
Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |