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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 by Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown - PART 1: Citizenship and Civic Participation?
The civics of urban malaria vector control: Grassroots and breeding places in Dar es Salaam by Ann Kelly and Prosper Chaki
The many uses of moral magnetism: Volunteer caregiving and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa by Christopher J. Colvin - PART 2: Unequal Economies
The purchase of volunteerism: Uses and meanings of money in Lesotho's development sector by Ståle Wig
Volunteering in transnational medical research in Lusaka by Birgitte Bruun - PART 3: Hosts and Guests
Doing good while they can: International volunteers, development and politics in early independence Tanzania by Michael Jennings
Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering by Claire Wendland, Susan L. Erikson and Noelle Sullivan
Hosting gazes: Clinical volunteer tourism and hospital hospitality in Tanzania by Noelle Sullivan - PART 4: Moral Journeys
A third mode of engagement with the excluded other: Student volunteers from an elite boarding school in Kenya by Bjørn Hallstein Holte
Volunteering as repentance by Thomas G. Kirsch
Epilogue: Ebola and the Vulnerable Volunteer by Peter Redfield
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Ruth Prince, Hannah Brown
