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Voluntarism, health and place: bringing an emerging field into focus

Voluntarism, health and place: bringing an emerging field into focus
Voluntarism, health and place: bringing an emerging field into focus
Featuring a review of health geography contributions to the recent ‘voluntary turn’ in the health and social sciences, this paper introduces a theme section comprising five other papers that explore the links among voluntarism, health and place. The introductory paper elucidates the emergence of health voluntarism as a field of study within geography and highlights the crucial difference ‘place’ makes to understanding voluntary activity in the context of health, care and wellbeing. Questions are raised about theoretical, methodological and policy contributions and potential avenues for fulfilling a more inclusive ‘health geographies of voluntarism’ are discussed.

voluntary turn, geographies of voluntarism, health geography, field of study
1353-8292
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Skinner, Mark W.
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Power, Andrew
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Skinner, Mark W.
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Power, Andrew
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Skinner, Mark W. and Power, Andrew (2011) Voluntarism, health and place: bringing an emerging field into focus. Health & Place, 17 (1), 1-6. (PMID:20888283)

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Featuring a review of health geography contributions to the recent ‘voluntary turn’ in the health and social sciences, this paper introduces a theme section comprising five other papers that explore the links among voluntarism, health and place. The introductory paper elucidates the emergence of health voluntarism as a field of study within geography and highlights the crucial difference ‘place’ makes to understanding voluntary activity in the context of health, care and wellbeing. Questions are raised about theoretical, methodological and policy contributions and potential avenues for fulfilling a more inclusive ‘health geographies of voluntarism’ are discussed.

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Published date: January 2011
Keywords: voluntary turn, geographies of voluntarism, health geography, field of study
Organisations: Geography, PHEW – C (Care)

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Local EPrints ID: 194115
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/194115
ISSN: 1353-8292
PURE UUID: 6fcf9e5f-38b0-440b-b5b1-1a5b6977180b
ORCID for Andrew Power: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3887-1050

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Date deposited: 25 Jul 2011 09:06
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:39

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Author: Mark W. Skinner
Author: Andrew Power ORCID iD

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