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Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.
List of contents
Introduction: The politics and ethics of voluntary labour in Africa - Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown
Part 1: Citizenship & Civic Participation
The many uses of moral magnetism: Volunteer caregiving and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa - Christopher James Colvin
The civics of urban malaria vector control: Grassroots and breeding places in Dar es Salaam - Ann H. Kelly
The civics of urban malaria vector control: Grassroots and breeding places in Dar es Salaam - Prosper Chaki
PART 2: Unequal Economies
The purchase of volunteerism: Uses and meanings of money in Lesotho's development sector - Ståle Wig
Positions and possibilities in volunteering for transnational medical research in Lusaka - Birgitte Bruun
PART 3: Hosts and Guests
Doing good while they can: International volunteers, development and politics in early independence Tanzania - Michael Jennings
Hosting gazes: Clinical volunteer tourism and hospital hospitality in Tanzania - Noelle Sullivan
Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering - Claire L. Wendland
Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering - Susan L. Erikson
Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering - Noelle Sullivan
PART 4: Moral Journeys
A third mode of engagement with the excluded other: Student volunteers from an elite boarding school in Kenya - Bjørn Hallstein Holte
Undoing apartheid legacies?: Volunteering as repentance and politics by other means - Thomas G. Kirsch
Epilogue: Ebola and the vulnerable volunteer
About the author
Ruth Prince, Hannah Brown
Summary
Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.
