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This book takes a critical, grounded and ethnographic approach to
elicit a deeper understanding of university volunteering.
Anthropological theories of reciprocal gift exchange are used to
re-visit some of the value-laden and at times conflicting ways of
understanding volunteering as freely undertaken or coerced,
altruistic or self-interested. It also explores how some of the
changing uses and expectations of volunteering are related to the
exercise of power and to the effect of social norms or structural
constraints on agency. The book contains a detailed case study of a
UK university, focusing on its relationships with local communities
and voluntary organisations to illustrate the complex and
culturally situated nature of volunteering and the gift. Joanna
Puckering also draws on examples from countries such as the United
States and Australia to address wider questions of why people do
what they do, and why volunteering motives and outcomes attract
differing interpretations. This volume will be relevant to scholars
from anthropology, sociology and geography as well as those
involved in the higher education and voluntary, corporate and
social enterprise sectors.
What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book
shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can
transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this
book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between
scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual
perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of
enlightenment, phallic territorial markers, and memorials of
historical relationships with the sea. However, the
interdisciplinary conversation also reveals underlying and
sometimes unexpected connections. It elucidates the human and
non-human evolutionary adaptations that use light for signalling
and warning; the visual languages created by regularity and
synchronicity in pulses of light; how lighthouses have generated a
whole 'family' of related material objects and technologies; and
the way that light flows between social and material worlds.
What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book
shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can
transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this
book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between
scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual
perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of
enlightenment, phallic territorial markers, and memorials of
historical relationships with the sea. However, the
interdisciplinary conversation also reveals underlying and
sometimes unexpected connections. It elucidates the human and
non-human evolutionary adaptations that use light for signalling
and warning; the visual languages created by regularity and
synchronicity in pulses of light; how lighthouses have generated a
whole 'family' of related material objects and technologies; and
the way that light flows between social and material worlds.
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