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Voluntarism, community life, and the American ethic
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ISBN: 128207220X 9786612072208 0253110203 9780253110206 9780253344236 0253344239 0253344239 9781282072206 6612072202 Year: 2004 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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""This is a major contribution to the literature on social participation and voluntary action. It is the first systematic ethnographic study I know that treats volunteers and the institutions they create."" -- John Van Til, author of Growing Civil Society ""Students and faculty interested in the issue of homelessness will find the book instructive... Recommended."" -- Choice Why do people volunteer, and what motivates them to stick with it? How do local organizations create community? How


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Structures of protection? Rethinking refugee shelter
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ISBN: 9781789207125 1789207126 9781800736306 9781789207132 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Berghahn

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"Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections on the relationship between architecture, place, politics, design and displacement"--

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