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Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance.

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Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance edited by Christine Milligan and David Conradson, The Policy Press, Bristol, 2006, ix + 304 pp., cloth US$75 (ISBN 10-1-86134-632-8)

The non-profit and voluntary sector, the third sector, is an area neglected by human geography despite its huge impact on social and economic life and the inherent need to analyze its spatial variation. Landscapes of Voluntarism is, therefore, an important collection of essays, because it provides a reference base and opens a vista of opportunity. It covers elderly care, homecare, immigration, and marriage counselling, ethnic community support and several other non-profit areas. In a foreword, Jennifer Wolch, whose 1989 book Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition reintroduced Geography to the voluntary sector, positions this text as a reference point for the discipline. Christine Milligan, along...