ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses the laboured strategies of reciprocation in sharing practices. It argues that reciprocity is a necessary condition for the possibility for sharing. It attends to notions of boundaries, immediacy, causality and reciprocity for sharing and identifies the affective labours of sharing, examining equivalence, causality and listening as particular strategies of reciprocity. This chapter demonstrates the necessity of legibility and attentiveness for reciprocity and raises awareness of the expectations, obligations and limitations that complicate this relationship.