ABSTRACT
In this book I examined how neoliberal views of aid and development have affected the practice of development volunteering. I highlighted the “space of flows” in which development volunteering occurs, beginning by situating the activity in debates about civil society (focusing on the state/ civil society nexus), and linking these to global development. I drew attention to the ways in which individual volunteers, recipients of aid and civil society organisations (CSOs) and donor states are connected to argue that development volunteers play a role in transmitting the dominant ideologies underpinning aid policy and practice (and currently these are neoliberal), through their activities in the field.
