Volunteers on the Political Anvil: Citizenship and Volunteer Biodiversity Monitoring in Three Postcommunist Countries

Sandra Bell, Hugo Reinert, Joanna Cent, Malgorzata Grodzińska-Jurczak, Hanna Kobierska, Dan Podjed and Deivida Vandzinskaite
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Sandra Bell: Department of Anthropology, Durham University, 43 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HN, England
Hugo Reinert: Estonian Institute of Humanities, University of Tallinn, Salme 12, 10413 Tallinn, Estonia
Dan Podjed: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana, AÅ¡kerceva 2, 51-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Deivida Vandzinskaite: Department of Recreation and Tourism, Klaipeda University, H Manto 84, LT-5808 Klaipeda, Lithuania

Environment and Planning C, 2011, vol. 29, issue 1, 170-185

Abstract: We present comparative ethnographic material on volunteer biodiversity monitoring from environmental organisations in three postcommunist countries: Poland, Slovenia, and Lithuania. We chart and discuss aspects of the heritage from socialism and communist rule in terms of their effect on the present-day running and operations of four case-study organisations in these countries, focusing particularly on challenges posed by the legacy of compulsory volunteering, inherited organisational cultures, economic reorganisation, and internationalisation of the volunteering sector. In closing we indicate certain key differences between our case-study organisations, focusing on factors that influenced their ability to operate in the postcommunist nongovernmental organisation sector, and offer some observations of more general relevance.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1068/c0872

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