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Varieties and Changes of Volunteering: Challenges for an International Standard on Voluntary Action

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Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering

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The chapter illustrates the traditional varieties and recent transformations of volunteering in five different cultural areas of the world (Anglo-Saxon, European, Latin American, East Asian, sub-Saharan African) and connects the peculiarities of domestic voluntary action to the different cultural and socioeconomic local patterns. It identifies in the intricate heterogeneity of local manifestations of volunteering one of the problematic challenges for the global research and policy-making agenda on the topic. Problematic aspects and cultural specificities with regard to the core elements of the common definition of volunteering – free will, unpaid, general interest – are put in focus. Opportunities and challenges of the future work with the ILO Manual are assessed.

The chapter is co-authored by Riccardo Guidi (Sects. 3.1, 3.2, and 3.8), John Wilson (Sect. 3.3), Bernard Enjolras (Sect. 3.4), Jacqueline Butcher (Sect. 3.5), Jacob Mwathi Mati (Sect. 3.6), and Ying Xu (Sect. 3.7).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For example, helping the members of the same community, beyond the household, may be an option in a highly individualized context and a traditional obligation in another; helping the cousin of a brother-in-law can be nearly compulsory in an area with extended family model and a free act of volunteering in another; helping others informally, with no organizational intermediations, may be considered the only way to volunteer in societies having a low degree of formalization and juridification and considered other than volunteering in a society largely based on formal institutions.

  2. 2.

    Regions are considered here as supra-national areas united by crucial cultural, economic, and institutional characteristics. By “volunteering tradition” it is meant a coherent, multi-layered, and dynamic combination of cognitive components, formal regulations, legitimized actors, and reiterated practices of volunteering which has been consolidated (institutionalized) in a context in a medium–long-term period (Guidi, 2021).

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    See more at https://ccss.jhu.edu/research-projects/vmp/evmp/.

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Guidi, R., Butcher, J., Enjolras, B., Mati, J.M., Wilson, J., Xu, Y. (2021). Varieties and Changes of Volunteering: Challenges for an International Standard on Voluntary Action. In: Guidi, R., Fonović, K., Cappadozzi, T. (eds) Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70546-6_3

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