Volunteer Activities and “Publicity”

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  • ボランティアと公共性
  • ボランティア ト コウキョウセイ

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Referring to the history of the concept of “publicity” in the sense of “being public” in the West, China and Japan, we can distinguish two meanings: “communal publicity” and “civic publicity”. Communal publicity means to be a community or related to a community. Civic publicity means to be free to discuss and to be open to watch, listen and criticize. When we discuss social justice or political values, civic publicity becomes political publicity. Therefore volunteer activities are a part of civic publicity, because free discussion and dissemination of information are essential to volunteer activities. Further, volunteer activities are indispensable for the realization of the civic publicity, because a state is a profit-making organization and not public, just like a company. A state is public only when the state participates in open discussion and chooses to act as a volunteer. Therefore we cannot leave all the construction of civic publicity to the state. To realize it, we need volunteer activities.

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  • Journal of Volunteer Studies

    Journal of Volunteer Studies 1 (0), 37-56, 2000-10-31

    The International Society of Volunteer Studies in Japan

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