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Volunteer economies : the politics & ethics of voluntary labour in Africa /
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 volunt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk :
James Currey,
2016.
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| Colección: | African issues.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The politics & ethics of voluntary labour in Africa / Ruth Prince & Hannah Brown
- 1. The many uses of moral magnetism : volunteer caregiving & the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa / Christopher J. Colvin
- 2. The civics of urban malaria vector control : grassroots & breeding places in Dar es Salaam / Ann Kelly & Prosper Chaki
- 3. The purchase of volunteerism : uses & meanings of money in Lesotho's development sector / Stale Wig
- 4. Positions & possibilities in volunteering for transnational medical research in Lusaka / Birgitte Bruun
- 5. Doing good while they can : international volunteers, development & politics in early independence Tanzania / Michael Jennings
- 6. Hosting gazes : clinical volunteer tourism & hospital hospitality in Tanzania / Noelle Sullivan
- 7. Beneath the spin : moral complexity & rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering / Claire Wendland, Susan L. Erikson & Noelle Sullivan
- 8. A third mode of engagement with the excluded other : student volunteers from an elite boarding school in Kenya / Bjorn Hallstein Holte
- 9. Undoing apartheid legacies? Volunteering as repentance & politics by other means / Thomas G. Kirsch
- Epilogue : ebola & the vulnerable volunteer / Peter Redfield