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Insights on International Volunteering

Perspectives from the Global South
Voluntaris Sonderband 2018
Nomos,  2018, 142 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8487-4083-3


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englischThis special issue aims to validate the voices of southern partners in communities where international volunteering takes place. The collection deals with nine countries from the Global South: Peru, Guatemala, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and India. Its individual chapters embody a distinctive approach that aims to decentre critical perspective by representing subaltern voices. The study’s data is drawn from 212 individual interviews and 21 focus groups, and its findings are couched within critical and normative theories, which offer alternative views to the often dominant critical constructions that frame dialogue on international volunteering. This approach presents these stories and interpretations in a way that better situates the voices of the host organisation and community staff within historical, political, social and economic reality.

»This book is essential reading for scholars examining international volunteer efforts, particularly those interested in de-centering the Eurocentric foundation of IVS. This book of cases will provide important lessons for students in introductory NGO courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level and would be a valuable supplemental text in courses incorporating service learning... This text should be required reading for ALL volunteers from the North prior to their departure for placements in the South.«
Roseanne Mirabella, Voluntas 2021, 1424

»Deshalb sollte jede entsendende Einrichtung, die Freiwillige, und jede Hochschule, die Studierende ins Praktikum in den Globalen Süden schickt, dieses Heft für alle Beteiligten zur Pflichtlektüre machen.«
Prof. Dr. Ute Straub, www.socialnet.de [...]