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UNINA9910456896103321 |
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Eliasoph Nina |
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Making volunteers [[electronic resource] ] : civic life after welfare's end / / Nina Eliasoph |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
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1-283-00915-3 |
9786613009159 |
1-4008-3882-7 |
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[Core Textbook] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Princeton studies in cultural sociology |
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Voluntarism - United States |
Young volunteers in community development - United States |
Volunteer workers in community development - United States |
Community development - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empower Yourself! -- CHAPTER 1. How to Learn Something in an Empowerment Project -- PART ONE. Cultivating Open Civic Equality -- CHAPTER 2. Participating under Unequal Auspices -- CHAPTER 3. "The Spirit that Moves Inside You": Puzzles of Using Volunteering to Cure the Volunteer's Problems -- CHAPTER 4. Temporal Leapfrog: Puzzles of Timing -- CHAPTER 5. Democracy Minus Disagreement, Civic Skills Minus Politics, Blank "Reflections" -- PART TWO. Cultivating Intimate Comfort and Safety -- CHAPTER 6. Harmless and Destructive Plug-in Volunteers -- CHAPTER 7. Paid Organizers Creating Temporally Finite, Intimate, Family-like Attachments -- CHAPTER 8. Publicly Questioning Need: Food, Safety, and Comfort -- CHAPTER 9. Drawing on Shared Experience in a Divided Society: Getting People Out of Their "Clumps" -- PART THREE. Celebrating Our Diverse, Multicultural Community -- CHAPTER 10. "Getting Out of Your Box" versus "Preserving a Culture": Two Opposed Ways of "Appreciating Cultural Diversity" -- CHAPTER 11. Tell Us about Your Culture: What Participants Count as "Culture" -- |
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CHAPTER 12. Celebrating ... Empowerment Projects! -- CONCLUSION. Finding Patterns in the "Open and Undefined" Organization: Gray Flannel Man Is Mostly Dead -- APPENDIX 1. On Justification -- APPENDIX 2. Methods of Taking Field Notes and Making Them Tell a Story -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter |
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Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. She reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach. With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. Eliasoph describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their resumés, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. She looks at adult "plug-in" volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. Eliasoph indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Based on participant research inside civic and community organizations, Making Volunteers illustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective. |
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UNINA9910827700303321 |
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Autore |
Moss Robert A. |
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Contemporary carbene chemistry / / edited by Robert A. Moss, Michael P. Doyle |
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1-118-73026-7 |
1-118-73037-2 |
1-118-73040-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (606 p.) |
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Wiley Series of Reactive Intermediates in Chemistry and Biology |
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MossRobert A |
DoyleMichael P |
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Carbenes (Methylene compounds) |
Carbon compounds |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: Preface PART 1: PROPERTIES AND REACTIONS OF CARBENES 1 Carbene Stability S. Gronert and R. M. O'Ferrall 2 Stable Carbenes J. P. Moerdyk and C. W. Bielawski 3 Acid-Base Chemistry of Carbenes A. M. O'Donoghue and R. S. Massey 4 Computational Methods for the Study of Carbenes and their Excited States H. L. Luk, S. Vyas, and C. M. Hadad 5 Dynamics in Carbene Reactions D. Merrer, K. Houk, and L. Xu 6 Ultrafast Kinetics of Carbene Reactions G. Burdzinski and M. S. Platz 7 Tunneling in the Reactions of Carbenes and Oxacarbenes D. Gerbig and P. R. Schreiner 8 Carbodicarbenes G. Frenking and R. Tonner 9 Catalytic Reactions with N-Mesityl Substituted N-Heterocyclic Carbenes J. Mahatthananchai and J. W. Bode 10 Supramolecular Carbene Chemistry U. Brinker, J.-L. Mieusset, and M. G. Rosenberg PART 2: METAL CARBENES 11 Modern Lithium Carbenoid Chemistry V. Capriati 12 Rhodium Carbenes H. Davies and B. Parr 13 Ruthenium Carbenes S. T. Diver and J. M. French 14 Nucleophilic Carbenes of the Chromium Triad Z. J. Tonzetich 15 Cobalt-Mediated Carbene Transfer Reactions X. Cui and X. P. Zhang 16 |
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"The newfound stability of carbenes has led to their development as catalysts and ligands for metal complexes of vast potential, including biomolecule labeling and surface modification of materials. Providing a fresh evaluation of the field, Contemporary Carbene Chemistry explores novel structural, catalytic, and organometallic aspects of carbene chemistry. Chapters focus on the most interesting, fruitful, and promising directions in their topical areas. Featuring a chapter by Nobel Laureate Robert Grubbs, this timely text provides graduate students with the most innovative and promising aspects of carbene research over the past decade"-- |
"Providing a fresh evaluation of the field, Contemporary Carbene Chemistry explores novel structural, catalytic, and organometallic aspects of carbene chemistry. Chapters focus on the most interesting, fruitful, and promising directions in their topical areas"-- |
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