Joanna Puckering is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology of Durham University. She co-edited From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light (2018, Routledge, with Veronica Strang and Tim Edensor).

• Introduction; PART I Framing Volunteering and the Gift; 1 Virtues, gifts and volunteering; 2 Hierarchies and visions of reality; 3 Paths and patterns; 4 Volunteering and the ‘Durham Difference’; PART II Tensions and Paradoxes of the Gift; 5 Volunteering is optional and obligatory; 6 Volunteering combines autonomy, dependence and power; 7 Volunteering in whose interest?; PART III Gift Relationships, Discourses and Identities; 8 Social bonds, language and contingent volunteers; 9 Mutual partnerships and hierarchies of power; 10 Concluding thoughts: gifts, virtues or obligations?; References

Joanna Puckering is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology of Durham University. She co-edited From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light (2018, Routledge, with Veronica Strang and Tim Edensor).

• Introduction; PART I Framing Volunteering and the Gift; 1 Virtues, gifts and volunteering; 2 Hierarchies and visions of reality; 3 Paths and patterns; 4 Volunteering and the ‘Durham Difference’; PART II Tensions and Paradoxes of the Gift; 5 Volunteering is optional and obligatory; 6 Volunteering combines autonomy, dependence and power; 7 Volunteering in whose interest?; PART III Gift Relationships, Discourses and Identities; 8 Social bonds, language and contingent volunteers; 9 Mutual partnerships and hierarchies of power; 10 Concluding thoughts: gifts, virtues or obligations?; References

Joanna Puckering is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology of Durham University. She co-edited From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light (2018, Routledge, with Veronica Strang and Tim Edensor).

• Introduction; PART I Framing Volunteering and the Gift; 1 Virtues, gifts and volunteering; 2 Hierarchies and visions of reality; 3 Paths and patterns; 4 Volunteering and the ‘Durham Difference’; PART II Tensions and Paradoxes of the Gift; 5 Volunteering is optional and obligatory; 6 Volunteering combines autonomy, dependence and power; 7 Volunteering in whose interest?; PART III Gift Relationships, Discourses and Identities; 8 Social bonds, language and contingent volunteers; 9 Mutual partnerships and hierarchies of power; 10 Concluding thoughts: gifts, virtues or obligations?; References