Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2019
Abstract
It is conventionally assumed that volunteering under state socialism in Central Europe ceased to exist as the communist state expanded to control all spheres of society, including what is today called civil society, third sector or voluntary sector. In the past years however, this assumption has been increasingly questioned in the field of nonprofit and voluntary sector studies, often building on a micro-sociological approaches or the constructivist paradigm.
The paper aims to contribute to this area of study by investigating individual narratives of actors who built voluntary organizations in the early 1990s in the Czech Republic. The stories show personal and larger societal-level continuities.