Volunteering in Local Communities between Late Socialism and Liberal Capitalism: The History of Volunteer Fire Departments in Germany and East Central Europe, 1980-2000

晚期社会主义和自由资本主义之间的当地社区志愿服务：德国和东中欧志愿消防队的历史，1980-2000

• 批准号: 314977196
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Thomas Lindenberger
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung an der Technischen Universität Dresden e.V. (HAIT)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/314977196?language=en
• 关键词: Volunteering; Local; Communities; between; Late

Organized voluntary engagement for the common good of the local community was and is a constant feature in modern societies since the 19th century, and across very diverse political regimes. Using the venerable institution of Voluntary Fire Departments (VFD), this comparative project in contemporary history aims at exploring the practice, and relevance of volunteering during late state socialism and the transformation to democracies and market economies in small medium sized cities and their surrounding rural areas (district towns) in Germany and East Central Europe. The following questions are addressed: 1) What was the role of VFD under late socialism? 2) How did VFD with all their traditions and continuities of voluntary service interact with the political ruptures and societal transformations around 1989/1991)? How did voluntary firefighters perceive themselves and how were they perceived by other local actors in these processes? Did VFD as nuclei of local sociability contribute to maintain and stabilise the cohesion and identity of communities, including social markers of difference such as gender, ethnicity, and class, in a time of radical change, and how were they in turn affected by these changes themselves? 4) How did VFD organisations get involved in inter-communal, including international, cooperation on the grass root level before, during and after the changes of 1989-91? The historical comparison and the areas of investigation are defined by two commonalities: (1) VFD were established and existed almost uninterruptedly as part of municipal self-governance since the 2nd half of the 19th century, as it was typical for Germany and the Habsburg Empire. (2) They came under communist rule after 1944/45 and experienced its erosion and final breakdown during the late 1980s and early 1990s, followed by - however highly diverse - processes of transformation towards liberal capitalism. Local case studies in (East) Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Vojvodina (Serbia) will provide empirical data and be set within the larger institutional and political contexts on the national level. Research will be based on archival records and include the extensive use of oral history interviews. Regional workshops, one international expert seminar, and one international conference, complemented with presentations at national and international conferences, will serve as seminal milestones of the project's work programme. Project results will include a comprehensive project volume, two monographs ensuing from two PhD theses, and four articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals. To realize the research programme the funding of a team of one postdoc researcher and two doctoral candidates directed by Thomas Lindenberger, ZZF Potsdam, and Philipp Ther, Unversity of Vienna is applied for within the D-A-CH cooperation of DFG and FWF.

自19世纪以来，为当地社区的共同利益而进行的有组织的自愿参与一直是现代社会的一个特点，而且跨越了各种不同的政治制度。利用志愿消防部门（VFD）的古老机构，在当代历史上的这个比较项目的目的是探索的做法，在后期国家社会主义和转型的民主和市场经济中的中小城市和周围的农村地区（区镇）在德国和中东欧志愿服务的相关性。本文提出了以下问题：1）社会主义后期VFD的作用是什么？2)VFD及其所有志愿服务的传统和连续性如何与1989/1991年左右的政治破裂和社会变革相互作用？志愿消防员如何看待自己，以及在这些过程中其他地方行为者如何看待他们？在急剧变化的时期，作为当地社交能力核心的VFD是否有助于维持和稳定社区的凝聚力和身份，包括性别、种族和阶级等差异的社会标志，以及它们又如何受到这些变化的影响？4)在1989- 1991年变革之前、期间和之后，村社联组织如何参与社区间合作，包括国际合作？历史比较和研究领域的界定有两个共同点：（1）VFD自19世纪世纪后半叶以来几乎不间断地作为市政自治的一部分建立和存在，这在德国和哈布斯堡帝国是典型的。(2)它们在1944/45年之后受到共产主义的统治，并在1980年代末和1990年代初经历了侵蚀和最终崩溃，随后是--尽管高度多样化--向自由资本主义的转型过程。在（东德）德国、捷克共和国、斯洛文尼亚和伏伊伏丁那（塞尔维亚）进行的地方案例研究将提供经验数据，并将其置于国家一级更大的体制和政治背景之下。研究将以档案记录为基础，包括广泛使用口述历史访谈。区域讲习班、一次国际专家研讨会和一次国际会议，加上在国家和国际会议上的介绍，将成为该项目工作方案的重要里程碑。项目成果将包括一个全面的项目卷、两篇博士论文的两本专著以及在国际和国家同行评审期刊上发表的四篇文章。为了实现研究计划，由托马斯林登伯格，ZZF波茨坦和菲利普·瑟尔，维也纳大学指导的一名博士后研究员和两名博士候选人组成的团队的资金在DFG和FWF的D-A-CH合作范围内申请。