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

This book takes a critical, grounded and ethnographic approach to elicit a deeper understanding of university volunteering.

List of contents

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; 10 Concluding thoughts: gifts, virtues or obligations?; References

About the author

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).

Summary

This book takes a critical, grounded and ethnographic approach to elicit a deeper understanding of university volunteering.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Puckering
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032126159
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3212615-9
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Volunteer Work, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Charities, Voluntary Services & Philanthropy, Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher