Volunteer Economies

• 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 ChakiThe many uses of moral magnetism: Volunteer caregiving and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa by Christopher J. Colvin - PART 2: Unequal EconomiesThe purchase of volunteerism: Uses and meanings of money in Lesotho's development sector by Ståle WigVolunteering in transnational medical research in Lusaka by Birgitte Bruun - PART 3: Hosts and GuestsDoing good while they can: International volunteers, development and politics in early independence Tanzania by Michael JenningsBeneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering by Claire Wendland, Susan L. Erikson and Noelle SullivanHosting gazes: Clinical volunteer tourism and hospital hospitality in Tanzania by Noelle Sullivan - PART 4: Moral JourneysA third mode of engagement with the excluded other: Student volunteers from an elite boarding school in Kenya by Bjørn Hallstein HolteVolunteering as repentance by Thomas G. KirschEpilogue: Ebola and the Vulnerable Volunteer by Peter Redfield

[T]he volume's diverse depictions of voluntary labour is one of its greatest strengths. Asking the reader to consider 'voluntourists' alongside low-income individuals who rely on clinical trials to access healthcare challenges the reader's own conceptions of moral economic activity as well as the basic definition of the word 'volunteer'.