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Volunteer Economies - The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa (Paperback)
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Volunteer Economies - The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa (Paperback)
Series: African Issues
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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. Across Africa today, as
development activities animate novel forms of governance, new
social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where
work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have
repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been
the real impact of volunteers economically, politically and in
society? The interdisciplinary experts in this collection examine
the practices of volunteers - both international and local - and
ideologies of volunteerism. They show the significance of
volunteerism to processes of social and economic transformation,
and political projects of national development and citizenship, as
well as to individual aspirations in African societies. These case
studies - from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia,
Sierra Leone and Malawi - examine everyday experiences of
volunteerism and trajectories of voluntary work, trace its
broaderhistorical, political and economic implications, and situate
African experiences of voluntary labour within global exchanges and
networks of resources, ideas and political technologies. Offering
insights into changing configurations of work, citizenship,
development and social mobility, the authors offer new perspectives
on the relations between labour, identity and social value in
Africa. Ruth Prince is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology
at the University of Oslo; with her co-author Wenzel Geissler, she
won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for their book The Land is Dying:
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Hannah Brown
is a lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University.
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