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Table of contents (57 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Historical and Conceptual Background
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Front Matter
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Special Types of Volunteering
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Front Matter
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About this book
Written by over 200 leading experts from over seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research on volunteering, civic participation and nonprofit membership associations. The first handbook on the subject to be truly multinational and interdisciplinary in its authorship, it represents a major milestone for the discipline. Each chapter follows a rigorous theoretical structure examining definitions, historical background, key analytical issues, usable knowledge, and future trends and required research. The nine parts of the handbook cover the historical and conceptual background of the discipline; special types of volunteering; the major activity areas of volunteering and associations; influences on volunteering and association participation; the internal structures of associations; the internal processes of associations; the external environments of associations; the scope and impacts of volunteering and associations; and conclusions and future prospects.
This handbook provides an essential reference work for third-sector research and practice, including a valuable glossary of terms defining over eighty key concepts. Sponsored by the International Council of Voluntarism, Civil Society, and Social Economy Researcher Associations (ICSERA; www.icsera.org), it will appeal to scholars, policymakers and practitioners, and helps to define the emergent academic discipline of voluntaristics.
Keywords
- Volunteering
- citizen participation
- voluntary associations
- membership associations
- voluntaristics
- influences on volunteering and participation
- history of associations
- theories of associations and volunteering
- typologies of associations and volunteering
- serious leisure
- leisure and volunteering
- Leisure General Activity Pattern/LGAP
- social capital
- social networks
- and associations
- hybrid associations
- informal volunteering
- stipended transnational and national service volunteering
- tourism volunteering
- online volunteering and cyber-associations
- capital
- demography
- environment
- Nation
- nature
- participation
- pluralism
- service
- society
- technology
- tourism
- Tradition
- Transnational
- trust
Reviews
“What makes the analysis of this vast and varied data effective is that questions and responses dictate the frame of the chapter. This is helpful for both students and other researchers being introduced to the field for the first time. The chapters in this text are rich, but leave the reader with a desire to learn more.” (Beth Oppenheim, Voluntas, Vol. 22 (2), 2018) “The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations produced under the leadership of David Horton Smith and his colleagues is a timely and highly useful publication. Like of no other academic publication before, the Handbook’s scope in scholarship and authorship is multinational, revealing the global progress of nonprofit sector and voluntary action research. The Handbook will no doubt be a useful tool for everyone interested in gaining an educated insight into volunteering and related issues.” (Professor Lev Jakobson, Firstvice-Rector, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
Authors and Affiliations
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Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA
David Horton Smith
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National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
David Horton Smith
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University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
David Horton Smith, Jurgen Grotz
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City University London, London, UK
David Horton Smith
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Institute for Philanthropy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
David Horton Smith
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University of Calgary, Canada
Robert A. Stebbins
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Institute for Volunteering Research, National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), UK
Jurgen Grotz
About the authors
Robert Stebbins is Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research and theoretic interests lie in work, leisure, and volunteering. His most recent books include Careers in Serious Leisure: From Dabbler to Devotee in Search of Fulfillment (Palgrave, 2014) and The Idea of Leisure ( 2012).
Jurgen Grotz is the Research Manager at the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK. He has over 25 years' research experience in the Voluntary and Community Sector, and has contributed to publications such as The State of the World's Volunteerism Report by UNV (2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations
Authors: David Horton Smith, David Horton Smith, David Horton Smith, David Horton Smith, David Horton Smith, Robert A. Stebbins, Jurgen Grotz, … Jurgen Grotz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-26317-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-26316-2Published: 29 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-26317-9Published: 18 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIII, 1414
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Policy, Social Policy, Social Work and Community Development, Sociology, general