If the twenty-first century will be a Chinese one, what will its anthropology bring? The new
realities of life in China have fundamentally reshaped the anthropology of modern China …

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed 87,000 people and left 5 million homeless. In response
to the devastation, an unprecedented wave of volunteers and civic associations streamed …

Narratives of volunteerism and civil society that emerged in Greece in the beginning of the
twenty-first century echoed the modernization and Europeanization visions of Greek society …

The scholarly exploration of “volunteering” has mainly focused on identifying its antecedents
or consequences, in order to facilitate the management and promotion of volunteering. In …

In this article, I track shifting paradigms of refugee management in Italy in times of austerity
and welfare state restructuring. Drawing on an ethnographic analysis of asylum-related …

The current literature on volunteering in tourism is very Western-centric, and volunteering in
different cultural contexts needs to be further explored. This study is devoted to exploring the …

Over the past 20 years, volunteering has developed as a new field for governmental control
and regulation of an emergent civil society. This article draws on interviews with 60 young …

This article explores the angst of deeply committed volunteers in China, engaging with
anthropological debates on ethics under conditions of “moral breakdown.” Under market …

Abstract Between 7 September and 12 November 2015, approximately 800 volunteers met
up to 1000 refugees a day under the banner of Refugees Welcome to Malmö, at Malmö …

Volunteering is a worldwide phenomenon but most studies of volunteering focus on the
developed countries of North America, the Pacific, and Europe. Studies of less developed …