Expanding the Boundaries of Volunteer Measurement: Emergent Forms of Voluntary Action from a Transnational Perspective
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F25%3A10507913" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/25:10507913 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.inlibra.com/document/download/pdf/uuid/d9b85bb1-a027-3a26-8f43-3dcca8c7c713" target="_blank" >https://www.inlibra.com/document/download/pdf/uuid/d9b85bb1-a027-3a26-8f43-3dcca8c7c713</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748948988" target="_blank" >10.5771/9783748948988</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Expanding the Boundaries of Volunteer Measurement: Emergent Forms of Voluntary Action from a Transnational Perspective
Original language description
Volunteering must be measured to be recognised, but current definitions often exclude innovative forms of civic engagement. Traditional metrics focus on hours and numbers, overlooking the quality and impact of volunteering. New, informal, and hybrid forms of volunteering, blending lifestyle, activism, and community action, are often missed in national surveys, despite their public value. Sometimes it might be good to be overlooked, but it can also mean not being recognised or supported. Based upon five examples of volunteering in contexts like third spaces, crisis engagement, issue coalitions, lifestyle participation, and third-party involvement, we conclude that measuring volunteering risks excluding innovative forms that blend with daily life. Five European examples show hybrid civic actions often go unrecognised. Formal definitions limit access to resources and recognition. A broader, real-time, grassroots-based measurement approach, leveraging AI, can better capture evolving volunteer energy and its societal impact across diverse, dynamic contexts.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Contemporary Volunteering Study and Research in Europe
ISBN
978-3-7560-2246-5
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
74-89
Number of pages of the book
120
Publisher name
Nomos
Place of publication
Baden-Baden
UT code for WoS chapter
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