Conclusion: Reimagining nonprofit organizing and voluntary action scholarship

In this concluding chapter, we lay out opportunities and gaps for future contributions that critical perspectives might make to nonprofit and voluntary action studies, noting how critical scholarship in the field very much continues to draw most heavily on (global Western), Anglo-European critical theories and theorists heavily influenced by European scholars. While we see perhaps a growing body of work in the field that draws on postcolonial and decolonizing theories, very little draws on epistemologies of the South. Work drawing on queer theories and critical disability theories is also beginning to emerge, but so far remains relatively sparse. There also seems to be a growing body of work using critical race theory but still very little work in the field draws more particularly on Latino, Asian, or tribal critical theory. We conclude the volume with a call for deepening critical analyses especially through more future-oriented, radical, utopian, and liberatory thinking within the field.