The Construction of solidarity bodies. A Case of workfare and volunteering Policies

This paper aims to investigate the phenomenon of volunteering as a workfare event, so as a synchronous rewriting of territorial politics and capitalism advocacy, according to principles such as risk and border. The two terms, as a solid sociological category, still seem to be able to shed a light on the material and semantic shift of European welfare1 . The assumption of this survey is that the volunteering field is the result of the forces and practices of distinction and/or segregation of the individuals who participate in it, directly and indirectly endorsing a corporate-style discourse, as well as inaccurate populist impulses. Such risk criteria, such as efficiency and effectiveness, in addition to work as an instrument measuring the impact of solidarity, are involved in a more accurate rewriting of a second level welfare. Individuals and intermediate political bodies – as voluntary bodies – guide the solidarity contract to a different public mediation.