The self-organising of youth volunteers during theRenaoil spill in New Zealand
| Autor: | Sarah Lockwood, C. Kay Weaver, Mary Simpson, Debashish Munshi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Ecology
business.industry Self media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Flexibility (personality) Resistance (psychoanalysis) Aquatic Science Public relations Creativity 0506 political science Self organisation 0502 economics and business Oil spill 050602 political science & public administration Research questions Sociology business 050203 business & management Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Water Science and Technology Crisis communication media_common |
| Zdroj: | New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 50:28-41 |
| ISSN: | 1175-8805 0028-8330 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00288330.2015.1063515 |
| Popis: | This study explores the communication and organising of youth volunteers during a crisis, focusing on how they conceived, framed, and executed self-organising efforts during the 2011 Rena oil spill in New Zealand. It offers insights into the intersections of self-organising, youth volunteering and crisis events which have not been researched before. The study addresses two core research questions: 1. how was ‘volunteering’ conceptualised by youth volunteers involved in the Rena crisis; and 2. how did these volunteers communicate and self-organise during this crisis? The findings indicate that self-organising emerged out of a resistance towards structured responses and as a reaction to the inability of the official volunteer response to meet the needs of the community. Self-organised efforts were particularly attractive among youth volunteers because they offered flexibility, required minimal administrative processes, and fostered an environment of innovation and creativity. The volunteers’ youthfu... |
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