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Gifts, Virtues and Obligations of University Volunteering: The Proper Thing to Do book cover

1st Edition

Gifts, Virtues and Obligations of University Volunteering The Proper Thing to Do

By Joanna Puckering Copyright 2022
254 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book takes a critical, grounded and ethnographic approach to elicit a deeper understanding of university volunteering. Anthropological theories of reciprocal gift exchange are used to re-visit some of the value-laden and at times conflicting ways of understanding volunteering as freely undertaken or coerced, altruistic or self-interested. It also explores how some of the changing... Read more

Introduction

PART I Framing Volunteering and the Gift

1 Virtues, gifts and volunteering

2 Hierarchies and visions of reality

3 Paths and patterns

4 Volunteering and the ‘Durham Difference’

PART II Tensions and Paradoxes of the Gift

5 Volunteering is optional and obligatory

6 Volunteering combines autonomy, dependence and power

7 Volunteering in whose interest?

PART III Gift Relationships, Discourses and Identities

8 Social bonds, language and contingent volunteers

9 Mutual partnerships and hierarchies of power

Concluding thoughts: gifts, virtues or obligations?

References

Biography

Joanna Puckering is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology of Durham University. She co-edited From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light (2018, Routledge, with Veronica Strang and Tim Edensor).

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