The voluntary sector plays a crucial role in shaping place, and is in turn shaped by that context, yet this ‘place leadership’ role has been underexplored in research. This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine this intriguing phenomenon in different political and cultural contexts.
Using case studies from the UK, the US, China and Europe, the book provides fresh insights into the dynamic relationship between place, leadership and voluntary action. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, it sets state-of-the-art agendas for understanding and strengthening the voluntary sector’s influence in place leadership.
Table of Content
1: Introduction – James Rees and Carol Jacklin-Jarvis
Part 1: Reimagining the Voluntary Sector Contribution to Leadership in and of Place
2. Placed in Wales: the Impact of Welshness on Voluntary Leaders of Welsh Civil Society – Flossie Caerwynt and Amy Sanders
3. Place Leadership – the Civic Contribution of Community-Based Voluntary Organisations in Deprived Neighbourhoods – Susanne Martikke
4. Visible Places: Unpacking Global and Local Embeddedness of Civil Society Actors in Bulgaria – Mariana Bogdanova
5. The Contributions and Challenges of Feminist Place-based Leadership: Partnership Agreements and Disagreements – Louise Warwick-Booth, Susan Coan and Ruth Cross
6. Weaving Connections Amid Hostility – A Study of Leadership in and of Place – Sally Vivyan
Part 2: Voices Of Experience
7. A Personal and Networked Practice Account of How Voluntary and Community Sector Leadership Works in Bermondsey – Dora Dixon-Fyle, Sandra Ferguson, Anita Mitra, Emma Snow, Jacyntha Stewart and Simon Williams
8. Place Making and Community Action: An Analysis of a Community Newspaper – Alex Murdock
9. Place-Based Leadership in Ethnically Diverse Cities: A Subaltern Autoethnographic Account of Moving from the Periphery to the Centre – Fidele Mutwarasibo
10. The Journey to Becoming: A Critical Realist Approach to Place-based Leadership in the Voluntary Sector – Helen Britton
Part 3: Developing and Delivering Voluntary Sector Place Leadership
11. Leadership, Language and Place: How a Nonprofit Organisation Constituted and Extended its Resource Environment during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Antonio Jimenez-Luque and Marcus M Lam
12. Signs of a Healthy Relationship: Developing Communities through Relationship-Based Leadership – Jodie Low, Genna Whitlock and Christine Collymore
13. Grantmaking Foundations and Place Based Leadership: The Opportunities and Challenges of Relational Philanthropy Within Place – Janis Petzinger, Caroline Broadhurst, and Tobias Jung
14. Community Foundations and Community Leadership in Urban China – Lili Wang, and Rong Tian
15. Leadership Development for Place-based Communities – Vita Terry and Carol Jacklin-Jarvis
16. Conclusion – Carol Jacklin-Jarvis and James Rees
About the author
James Rees is Reader at the Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) at the University of Wolverhampton.
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