Complications and contradictions: volunteering in Athens

2024/07/18 by Henshaw, Russell

paper · doi:10.5287/ora-bd7qz4ojd

Abstract

This paper presents a brief ethnographic portrait of a solidarity group in Athens. It attempts to explore some of the difficulties and contradictions of the solidarity movement and the moral labour in which volunteers engage.

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