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dc.contributor.authorLopez Franco, Erikaen
dc.contributor.authorShahrokh, Theaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-11T13:45:21Z
dc.date.available2016-01-11T13:45:21Z
dc.date.issued01/09/2015en
dc.identifier.citationLopez Franco, E. and Shahrokh, T. (2015) The Changing Tides of Volunteering in Development: Discourse, Knowledge and Practice. IDS Bulletin 46(5): 17-28en
dc.identifier.issn1759-5436en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/7751
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the changing narratives of volunteering in development and the interplay of volunteering with global and local theories of how change happens. Firstly, we analyse the links between the evolution of mainstream development trends and changes in volunteering approaches and programmes. Secondly, we look at how changing conceptions of volunteering have repositioned international volunteering in relation to national and local contexts. Thirdly, we present the implications of shifts in understandings of knowledge creation, which happens from the ground up, on volunteering research and programming. This discussion is situated within pressure for ‘results’ within contemporary development discourse and practice. The article concludes that the volunteering sector is at a crossroads; organisations working in meaningful partnerships with volunteers from local to global levels must remain at the forefront – questioning mainstream trends and advocating people?centred development. This article draws on a literature review undertaken to inform the Valuing Volunteering project.en
dc.format.extent12en
dc.publisher© 2015 Institute of Development Studiesen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin Vol. 46 Nos. 5en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen
dc.titleThe Changing Tides of Volunteering in Development: Discourse, Knowledge and Practiceen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1759-5436.12172en


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