Voluntary Service to the Country. Interest in Joining the Czech Active Army Reserve in Times of Crisis

Authors

  • Jan Bubanec

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.4494

Keywords:

active reserve, voluntary military training, service to country, army, citizenship, volunteering, transmigration, responzibilization, war in Ukraine

Abstract

This article focuses on the motivations of candidates for service in the Active Reserve or for completing Voluntary Military Training. In the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine, people’s interest in service is sharply rising. Thus, the main research objective is to shed light on the motivations for serving in the military in the context of the proximity to potential threats, for which I used the qualitative research methods of semi-structured interview analysis, participant observation, social network analysis, and secondary data. In this article, I provide an overview of the existing research and introduce concepts through which the Active Reserve Institute can be perceived, especially the concepts of responzibilization and that of reserve soldiers being transmigrants. This article is the output of a completed bachelor thesis on the topic. It contains a cross-section of this work and its findings, which show the need for new motivation categories and how the presence of potential conflict affects the perception of defense in the eyes of society.

Author Biography

Jan Bubanec

Jan Bubanec je absolventem studia humanitní vzdělanosti na Fakultě humanitních studií Univerzity Karlovy. Ve své bakalářské práci se zaměřil na armádní prostředí a specifika aktivní zálohy, které je sám členem. Ve studiu na FHS UK pokračuje v navazujícím magisterském programu antropologická studia.

Published

2024-05-01

How to Cite

Bubanec, J. (2024). Voluntary Service to the Country. Interest in Joining the Czech Active Army Reserve in Times of Crisis . Lidé města, 26(1), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.4494

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