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Part I: Volunteering: An Introduction and Theoretical Framework.- 1: Volunteering: A Complex Social Phenomenon.- Part II: Cross-national Approaches.- 2. The Economic Value of Volunteering: Comparative Estimates among Developing, Transitional, and Developed Countries.- 3. Perceptions of Volunteering and Their Effect on Sustainable Development and Poverty alleviation in Mozambique, Nepal and Kenya.- 4. The Role of Civic Service in Enhancing Youth Employability: Reflections on National Youth Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa.- 5. Corporate Volunteering in the Global South.- 6. The Value of Volunteers in Community-Based Organisations: Insights from Southern Africa.- 7. Models, Developments and Effects of Trans-Border Youth Volunteer Exchange Programmes in Eastern and Southern Africa.- Part III: Country studies.- 8. Global Solidarity: Learning from Volunteer Frameworks in Peru.- 9. Beyond Images and Perceptions: Conceptualizing and Measuring Volunteerism in Buenos Aires.- 10. Solidarity and Volunteering: A View from Mexico.- 11. Volunteerism and the State: Understanding the Development of Volunteering in China.- 12. Volunteering in Armenia: Leaving the Soviet Legacy Behind?.- 13. The Current State of Volunteering in Turkey.- Part IV: Conclusion.- Conclusion.


About the Author:

Jacqueline Butcher is Director of the Centro de Investigación y Estudios sobre Sociedad Civil, (CIESC) (Center for Civil Society Research and Studies) in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Tecnológico de Monterrery, Mexico City Campus. Her areas of research focus on civil society, volunteering and solidarity. Her work has appeared in various academic journals such as Voluntas, and the Mexican Journal of Psychology and Human Development. Recent edited publications include Mexican solidarity: Citizen participation and volunteering (2010, Springer) and Generosidad en México (Generosity in Mexico) (2013, Porrúa). She is associate editor for Voluntas as well as a former President of the International Society for Third Sector Research, (ISTR).

Christopher J. Einolf is an Associate Professor at DePaul University's School of Public Service in Chicago, where he researches volunteering, charitable giving, and human rights. His work has appeared in Journal of Marriage and Family, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Social Science Research, and Social Indicators Research, and he recently published America in the Philippines, 1899-1902: The First Torture Scandal (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014). He wrote the report on informal volunteering for the 2011 United Nations State of the World's Volunteering Report, which will be published as a chapter in the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook on Volunteering and Nonprofit Associations



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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783319819938
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
  • Sub Title: Voices from the South
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3319819933
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jun 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 476 gr


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