Despite and Beyond Cultural Policy

Böse, Martina; Busch, Brigitta; Šešić, Milena Dragičević

doi:10.1057/9780230504318_7

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“…To agile fourth-sector actors, third-sector organizations may appear slow, rigid, and old-fashioned . Böse, Busch, and Sesic (2006) share similar views in writing about the fourth sector in the context of the cultural sphere. They stated that self-organized cultural activity has emancipated itself from the third sector and can be identified by its transitory, subversive, and fluid nature (ibid).…”

Section: Strands In the Fourth-sector Literaturementioning

confidence: 80%

“…Linking these two research areas could help integrate spontaneous volunteers and emergent citizens groups in safety and security functions into a separate fourth sector, making a clear distinction in relation to the traditional third sector, encompassing not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations. In addition, the fourth-sector literature that has focused more on cultural practices, urban planning, and sustainable development (e.g., Böse, Busch, & Sesic, 2006; could be expanded to include activities promoting safety and security (for a discussion on the definitions of safety and security, see Boholm, Möller, & Hansson 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Those who Agree to Play on our Terms will be Taken In”: A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of Public Authorities and Ngo Representatives regarding Self-Organizing Fourth-Sector Activity

Raisio,

Puustinen,

Norri-Sederholm

et al. 2019

Public Administration Quarterly

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Interest is growing in the role of spontaneous volunteers and emergent citizens groups in safety and security functions. This study connects those actors to the broad concept of the self-organizing fourth sector and analyzes the opinions of more than 200 Finnish representatives of public-and the third-sector organizations gathered through interviews and small group discussion on the tensions related to fourth-sector activity. The study reveals a strong desire to control the fourth sector, a desire that dominates any associated desire to enable it. The tension between enabling and controlling can be tamed by moving the fourth-sector actors under the control of the third sector. However, the role of the fourth sector is then reduced to being merely an extra pair of hands, and its self-organizing and emergent nature is subsumed. The debate over the paradox of spontaneous volunteering needs to be resolved before the fourth sector becomes a normal and acknowledged part of the security and safety functions.

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Section: Strands In the Fourth-sector Literaturementioning

confidence: 80%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Those who Agree to Play on our Terms will be Taken In”: A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of Public Authorities and Ngo Representatives regarding Self-Organizing Fourth-Sector Activity

Raisio,

Puustinen,

Norri-Sederholm

et al. 2019

Public Administration Quarterly

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“…Self-organizing civic activism can then construct both elitist enclaves and empowering enclaves for the marginalized (e.g. Böse, Busch and Sesic 2006).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The above Finnish interpretation of the content of the fourth sector is supported to some extent by Böse, Busch and Sesic (2006). Böse et al were the first researchers to link the concept of the fourth sector to self-organized civic activism.…”

Section: Self-organizing Civic Activismmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Sociologists and social movement researchers have explored the role, potential, and drivers of self-organizing civic activism in the new service economy (e.g. Böse, Busch and Sesic 2006;Raisio et al 2019). In turn, economists have paid attention to the role of what are termed hybrid organizations and their increasing role as the catalysts of economic performance, but also as game changers of capitalist production logic (Sabeti 2009;Sinuany-Stern andSherman 2014, Johanson andVakkuri 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the Emerging Fourth Sector and Its Governance Implications

Rask

Puustinen

Raisio

2020

SJPA

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The fourth sector has traditionally been described as encompassing families, households, neighbours, and friends, however, competing definitions have recently begun to emerge. Three different strands can be observed in the fourth-sector literature. The first strand centres on the notion of one-to-one aid. The second strand centres on self-organizing civic activism. The third strand focuses on hybrid organizations. In this paper we will analyse the main commonalities and differences in the understanding of the fourth sector. Our conclusion is that despite differences, there is enough ‘family resemblance’ between the three different streams of fourth-sector discussion to warrant a synthetic reflection of the governance issues related to this novel phenomenon. As a result of that analysis, we distinguish five specific governance issues that are related to 1) the ability of the public sector to work upon shared values, 2) the empowering nature of self-organizing, 3) the need for new operational rules under the ‘sharing economy’, 4) the transitory but structuration-oriented nature of fourth-sector processes and 5) the notion that fourth-sector involvement does not necessarily improve the quality of participation.

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The Project Partnership for Local Development: The Fourth Sector and Hybrid Initiatives

Foret

Melas

2021

Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Fourth Sector

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Despite and Beyond Cultural Policy

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

“Those who Agree to Play on our Terms will be Taken In”: A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of Public Authorities and Ngo Representatives regarding Self-Organizing Fourth-Sector Activity

“Those who Agree to Play on our Terms will be Taken In”: A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of Public Authorities and Ngo Representatives regarding Self-Organizing Fourth-Sector Activity

Understanding the Emerging Fourth Sector and Its Governance Implications

The Project Partnership for Local Development: The Fourth Sector and Hybrid Initiatives

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