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‘We can do it’: Community, resistance, social solidarity, and long-term volunteering at a sport event

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  • Elsa Kristiansen
  • Berit Skirstad
  • Milena M. Parent
  • Ivan Waddington

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•Exploratory case study of ski flying volunteering in Vikersund, Norway.•The local community is characterized by a high level of social integration.•Ski flying is a focus of local pride and identification within the community.•Communitas and social solidarity reinforced by resistance to outsiders’ hostility.Much research on volunteers has focused on who the volunteers are, and what motivates them on an individual level. This study, however, aims to contextualize the long-term commitment found in a whole community of volunteers and to explain this pattern of collective volunteering not in terms of individual motivations but in terms of broader social processes. Data gathered from interviews with volunteers in Vikersund, Norway, and the analysis of local and national press coverage in the years leading up to the 2013 World Cup in Ski flying in Vikersund suggest that long-term volunteering can be understood in terms of (i) a high level of social integration (socialization, institutionalization); (ii) the creation of a collective identity focused around the ski flying hill; and (iii) the maintenance and reinforcement of strong community identity and social solidarity by local resistance to the perceived hostility of outside organizations. This focus on the broader community/social processes has implications for researchers examining sport event volunteers as well as managers of recurring sport events wishing to retain volunteers.

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  • Elsa Kristiansen & Berit Skirstad & Milena M. Parent & Ivan Waddington, 2015. "‘We can do it’: Community, resistance, social solidarity, and long-term volunteering at a sport event," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(2), pages 256-267, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:18:y:2015:i:2:p:256-267
    DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2014.06.002
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    1. Wicker, Pamela, 2017. "Volunteerism and volunteer management in sport," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 20(4), pages 325-337.
    2. Meehee Cho & Mark A. Bonn & Su Jin Han, 2018. "Generation Z’s Sustainable Volunteering: Motivations, Attitudes and Job Performance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-16, May.
    3. Meiying Guo & Hongrui Liu & Meilin Yao, 2021. "The Confucian Value of Benevolence and Volunteering Among Chinese College Students: The Mediating Role of Functional Motives," SAGE Open, , vol. 11(1), pages 21582440211, March.
    4. Kristína Pompurová & Radka Marčeková & Ľubica Šebová & Jana Sokolová & Matej Žofaj, 2018. "Volunteer Tourism as a Sustainable Form of Tourism—The Case of Organized Events," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-12, May.
    5. Francisco Javier Lopez Frias & John Dattilo, 2021. "The Influence of Power on Leisure: Implications for Inclusive Leisure Services," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(5), pages 1-14, February.

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