Volunteer economies : the politics and ethics of voluntary labour in Africa /: the politics and ethics of voluntary labour in Africa. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ruth Prince, Hannah Brown.
• Editors: Prince, Ruth; Brown, Hannah
• Other Names: Sullivan, Noelle contributor.; Chaki, Prosper contributor.; Prince, Ruth contributor.; Wig, Ståle contributor.; Erikson, Susan L contributor.; Kirsch, Thomas G contributor.; Kelly, Ann H contributor.; Bruun, Birgitte contributor.; Holte, Bjørn Hallstein contributor.; Colvin, Christopher James contributor.; Wendland, Claire L contributor.; Brown, Hannah contributor.; Jennings, Michael contributor.
• Contents: Introduction: The politics and ethics of voluntary labour in Africa by Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown - PART 1: Citizenship and Civic Participation?; The civics of urban malaria vector control: Grassroots and breeding places in Dar es Salaam by Ann Kelly and Prosper Chaki; The many uses of moral magnetism: Volunteer caregiving and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa by Christopher J. Colvin - PART 2: Unequal Economies; The purchase of volunteerism: Uses and meanings of money in Lesotho's development sector by Ståle Wig; Volunteering in transnational medical research in Lusaka by Birgitte Bruun - PART 3: Hosts and Guests; Doing good while they can: International volunteers, development and politics in early independence Tanzania by Michael Jennings; Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering by Claire Wendland, Susan L. Erikson and Noelle Sullivan; Hosting gazes: Clinical volunteer tourism and hospital hospitality in Tanzania by Noelle Sullivan - PART 4: Moral Journeys; A third mode of engagement with the excluded other: Student volunteers from an elite boarding school in Kenya by Bjørn Hallstein Holte; Volunteering as repentance by Thomas G. Kirsch; Epilogue: Ebola and the Vulnerable Volunteer by Peter Redfield
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Oxford : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 361.763096; Voluntarism -- Economic aspects -- Africa; Voluntarism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Africa; Voluntarism -- Political aspects -- Africa
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782046691
• Related ISBNs: 9781847011404; 9781847011398
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