Voluntaris

The article is based on the experience of monitoring the Swiss project „engagement lokal“ and deals with the challenges of and strategies for supporting local volunteer work (LVW) in small and medium-sized cities and municipalities. The project...

„The request for the introduction of a compulsory service seems underdeveloped and primarily aimed at compensating a lack of resources in public services. Voluntariness, as an integral part of the basic and generally accepted definition of civic...

Volunteerism appears in very different forms in society and changes over time, which is also expressed in various terms for voluntarily engaged people. The proposed perspective on voluntary engagement, inspired by social theory, starts with a...

Biographical studies in the field of engagement research do not mainly focus on the specifics of the thematic area of engagement. The biographical-analytical study on queer engagement in young adulthood, of which the results are presented here,...

Inclusion is formulated as a claim also in the practical field of voluntary engagement, i. e. as a claim on state control, on providers of voluntary services and on institutions in which volunteers are active. However, the term inclusion and the...

The article examines the motivations and challenges of queer people in Germany with regard to their visibility. Despite growing queer hostile violence, they often opt to display their queerness visibly, driven by personal history and the desire for...

Considering intersectional discrimination against queer Muslim youths, this article uses a case portrait to ask, how queer and Muslim identities are being negotiated in Muslim youth work. It is based on a narrative interview that was evaluated using...

Demographic change and the ongoing structural transformation of volunteering are affecting volunteer fire brigades in Germany. Maintaining a sufficient number of volunteer firefighters and managers could be a challenge in the coming years,...