Volunteering as Performance : the Dynamic Between Self-Interest and Selflessness Within the Volunteer Industry /

Volunteering as Performance : the Dynamic Between Self-Interest and Selflessness Within the Volunteer Industry /

This thesis investigates volunteering as performance. In exploring this topic I discuss a dynamic between self-interest and selflessness in the observable performance of service through the social mechanisms of volunteerism. I argue that self-interest is a prominent motivation for volunteering, but...

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Main Author: Bernstein, Joshua David (Author)
Other Authors: Dox, Donnalee (Thesis advisor)
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [College Station, Texas] : [Texas A & M University], [2013]
Subjects:
Major Performance Studies.
Volunteering
Volunteerism
Volunteer tourism
Voluntourism
Voluntoured
Relay For Life
American Cancer Society
College student volunteerism
College student volunteering
Volunteer motivation
Selflessness
Self-interest
Self-interest and volunteering
Thailand
performance studies
Ethnography
I to i
Volunteering as performance
Cultural performance
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