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Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to
increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The
Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social
phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a
transformational impact on social life whilst at the same time
functioning as catalysts of shifts and ruptures as regards
human/non-human relations. Bearing a particular mark on subject
areas and questions which have recently come to shape developments
in anthropological thinking, the volume brings epidemics to the
forefront of anthropological debate, as an exemplary arena for
social scientific study and analysis.
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to
increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The
Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social
phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a
transformational impact on social life whilst at the same time
functioning as catalysts of shifts and ruptures as regards
human/non-human relations. Bearing a particular mark on subject
areas and questions which have recently come to shape developments
in anthropological thinking, the volume brings epidemics to the
forefront of anthropological debate, as an exemplary arena for
social scientific study and analysis.
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.
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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