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Charity’s dilemmas: an ethnography of gift-giving and social class in Croatia

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Walton,  Jeremy F.       
Research Group Empires of Memory, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Society;

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Walton, J. F., Doolan, K., & Cepić, D. (2019). Charity’s dilemmas: an ethnography of gift-giving and social class in Croatia. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 8(1), 11-24. doi:10.1108/JOE-03-2018-0015.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-60CD-B
Abstract
Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore charitable giving and receiving as a site of social class interaction in Croatia today, particularly in relation to the country’s socialist past and capitalist present.

Design/methodology/approach

Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in three charity organisations in Croatia. The reported material is based on participant observation, interviews and informal conversations with organisation members, activists, employees and end users.

Findings

The authors find that charity activists and recipients of aid occupy distinct but overlapping moral economies in relation to questions of poverty, charity and the role of the state.

Originality/value

The authors develop a unique perspective on charitable giving and receiving in a context in which memories of socialism shape understandings of the role of the state today vis-à-vis poverty relief.