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

by Joanna Puckering

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032126159
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2023
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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).

Table 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