Civil engagement and everyday life - An analysis of the civic provision of public services in rural areas from the perspective of practice theory

该研究项目试图将公民参与理解为一种生活实践，重点关注其身体和物质的宪法机制。在中期成果的基础上，公民参与表现为各种做法的联系，这些做法通过确保农村生活质量的共同目标和以实践为主的村庄社区的想象空间联系在一起。这一联系受到身体、空间和时间去/稳定的影响，这些行为在参与实践中和在参与实践之间发挥作用，并涉及联系之外的实践。关注这些破坏/稳定带来了进一步的问题，这些问题对于理解公民参与是一种活的实践是必不可少的。因此，一方面，责任的谈判变得显而易见，沿着发起、组织和帮助的逻辑遍历参与实践领域。另一方面，性别差异指导参与实践的实施，并在空间和时间上构建这些实践。研究项目讨论了这些问题，并将参与实践中的责任和性别谈判放在了首位。因此，联合承诺的概念被落实到实践理论研究议程中，并探讨了公民参与实践中的性别去/稳定机制。这一分析重点开辟了在农村地区公共服务背景下公民参与的新视角，并表明与其政治支持的相关性增加。因此，应与政治和民间行为者分享研究见解，以鼓励合作交流经验。这是通过在项目结束时组织一次研讨会开始的。

The research project seeks to understand civic engagement as a lived practice, focusing on its bodily and material constitutional mechanisms. Drawing on interim results, civic engagement presents itself as a nexus of heterogeneous practices, which are connected by the shared goal of securing the quality of rural life and the imaginational space of a practice overarching village community. This nexus is effected by bodily, spatial and temporal de-/ stabilizations that act within and between engagement practices, and involve practices outside the nexus. Focusing these de-/ stabilizations raises further questions, which are indispensable for an understanding of civic engagement as a lived practice. Thus, on the one hand, negotiations of responsibilities become apparent, traversing the field of engagement practices along the logics of initiating, organizing, and helping. On the other hand, gender differentiations guide the performance of engagement practices and structure them spatially and temporally. The research project takes up these issues and puts the negotiation of responsibilities and gender in the context of engagement practices to the front. Thereby, the concept of joint commitments is implemented to a practice theoretical research agenda, and the mechanisms of de-/ stabilizations of gender within practices of civic engagement are pursued. This analytical focus opens up a new perspective on civic engagement in the context of public services in rural areas and suggests increased relevance to its political support. Accordingly, the research insights should be shared with political and civil actors to encourage a collaborative exchange of experiences. This is initiated by organizing a workshop at the end of the project.