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  • Pride and Purpose: reflections on timebanking practice for fostering social networks in wellbeing improvement schemes

  • LEE GREGORY
  • Journal:
    Journal of Social Policy / Volume 50 / Issue 3 / July 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 June 2020, pp. 627-644
    Print publication:
    July 2021

  • This paper explores the relationship between social capital and a community initiative known as timebanking. Its purpose is to offer a more critical account of the literature to date, which suggests timebanking generates improved health outcomes because it facilitates bridging social capital. Drawing on Cattell’s (2011) analysis of social networks the paper offers an alternative account. It suggests a more nuanced view of social networks shows the development of different networks by members, resulting from gendered forms of participation. The consequences of this is that whilst different network forms provide sources of pride and coping mechanisms for members, for women they inhabit more diverse networks which offer greater benefits whilst men may still experience some forms of exclusion and isolation through their participation.