The opportunities to engage locally are diverse and the organizations and structures are correspondingly heterogeneous. The organizations differ in their function and logic of action from the areas of state, market and family and are part of “organized civil society”. What connects them is that they involve engagement as a resource in their provision of services; however, resources such as voluntary engagement are scarce, which leads to a competitive situation between the organizations. For non-profit organizations, engagement can serve as a competitive advantage over the private sector and basis for legitimating its functions with respect to local policies. At the same time, municipalities themselves have been increasingly creating tools and structures to promote engagement. For citizens and organizations, engagement goes hand in hand with the assumption of selfresponsibility and the willingness to selforganize.
Wohnraumknappheit in deutschen Großstädten ist aktuell ein Thema, das nicht nur fachpolitisch geführt wird, sondern sowohl zivilgesellschaftliche Akteur*innen beschäftigt als auch eine Startup-Szene von Tiny-House-Produzent*innen entstehen lässt. Die beiden Letztgenannten formieren sich in der sog. Tiny House-Bewegung, um u. a. Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln und zu erproben, um dem Knapper- und Teurerwerden von Wohnraum zu begegnen.
When political actors mandate the use of protective masks or makeshift masks in public, and these products are scarce on the market, local engagement-promoting organizations arrange their procurement independently. Taking on the responsibility of serving the local need for makeshift masks is based on the engagement of the citizens: as resource contributors and sewers they follow the call of community foundations, for example, to produce masks as a way of practicing solidarity with local actors. Through the 'netnographic' access to and a network-analytical perspective on self-presentations of community foundations, the present article deals with the question of how these foundations organize the production and provision of the product 'makeshift mask'. Conclusions are (1) that the network function of the local organizations of civil society with regard to the operation and fulfillment of the need for makeshift masks is central and (2) that voluntaryand solidaritybased engagement gains market-relevance through the production of a 'valuable' product. At the same time, however, solidarity as a basis for action is fragile because it arises from the active engagement of citizens, which also rests on the expectations of reciprocity.
ZusammenfassungAuf der Grundlage einer Analyse der Selbstpräsentation von Akteuren der Tiny-House-Bewegung, können Tiny Houses einerseits als symbolisierte Selbstverwirklichung eines Milieus, das ressourcenbedingt eine (eigene) Norm des Wohnens konstituiert, verstanden werden und andererseits als Ausdruck von Solidarität mit von Wohnungsnot Betroffenen, die aus der Selbstaktivierung einer engagierten und solidarischen Zivilgesellschaft hervorgeht. Sowohl das ressourcenbedingte Setzen einer Norm des Wohnens auf kleinstem Raum als auch die Solidaritätsleistung engagierter Personen – mit und für von Wohnungsnot Betroffenen – verdeutlichen, dass Engagement zur Linderung von Wohnungsnot (durch Tiny Houses) voraussetzungsvoll und an die Selbstaktivierungskräfte zivilgesellschaftlicher Akteur*innen gebunden ist.
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