ABSTRACT
Volunteering and leisure are closely linked. Researchers have argued that some forms of volunteering are also leisure, and many leisure organizations rely on the contributions of volunteers. Yet both are also contested concepts, as is apparent in the discussions developed by the contributors to this volume (e.g. Blackshaw, Bramham, Rojek, Roberts, Spracklen, Stebbins, et al.) and their writings elsewhere. Likewise, there are divergent views with respect to how both leisure and volunteering are changing. A further common thread engages with debates about how an increasingly fragmented and fluid society (Bauman, 2005) is reflected in both leisure and volunteering.
