Research note
Evidence map for RQ on non-monetary, non-domestic node and the work that sustains it
Evidence map across the interview/fieldnote code table (sections #3S645Y meanings/materials and #8B58LN skills/consumption work) for the RQ “How are divestment, acquisition and circulation organised in a non-monetary, non-domestic node, and what work sustains them?”
A. DIVESTMENT — how it is organised
Rhythm and routing: maisiņš batching (Līga, #5E57W9 #UZFVDU split-trip logistics under self-imposed constraint #M67FMX #CEF64T category-by-category sorting (Agnese, #4J5PZS #L3VG57 #3NYLLW explicit hierarchy of routes (Zane R., #RRP4QV #LGBQDU Agnese #KMYB5P
Why Brīvbode rather than alternatives: transparency vs containers (Laura #MWS97L #E4MFB8 witnessing the moment of circulation (Laura #U5BGXA #F6LCR7 imagined deserving recipient (Līga #Y67X6T resolves moral discomfort of uncertainty (Marta, in #8X36SB
Quality threshold and donor-side norm: donor’s puzzle (Jana #EFYYPG Laura’s self-policing about polyester #VCLRHQ the wire-offcuts case (Austra #LK2LTV
Temporality and ambivalence: weekend cost of sorting #2RJ3YU /#YERRGY); the clothes rail Laura cannot route #GMEP5Q #TPTJ42 divestment paradox (Jana #8PKEB6 #9EF3UV difficulty of sorting one’s own things #ZXHV8F #RHY4SJ
Household division of labour: gendered routing (Austra #UTR7RE Jana #NBQV56 #MF4SLU
B. ACQUISITION — how it is organised
Temporal-strategic skills: queueing before opening #SMWRAQ #8SX7Z2 Agate’s seasonal arrival timed against older-women clientele #732VUH avoiding peer competition #GQVTMD regularity of visits #98PL3B #69LEJC
Sandra’s fatalist orientation as opposite competency #93H7X3 Valentīna’s “secret source” knowledge #QG5628 #VFYSME #GX46UN Sandra abandoning charity shops for Brīvbode #F8FTKF
Acquisition on behalf of others (Ita commissions #LD5EYX /#MDMDWT; Austra for husband/grandchild #K4JG7B Jana for colleagues #P656VF
C. CIRCULATION as a non-monetary node — organisation of exchange
Exchange-not-charity norm explicitly enforced (Alise #JCP9XZ Jana on heterogeneous public #ZH9CL3 Ira “čista energetičeski vajag apmaiņa” #YRZ5TB
Active norm-policing at the door (Jana at Viskaļi #Z4Y3CL witnessing instant uptake creates legitimacy #U5BGXA discouraging immediate-taking practice #RMKQVJ
Boundaries with the market: resellers tolerated as “forest sanitarians” (Linards #MNG733 Alise’s nuance #BR8392 #CGCXV2
Circulation distinguished from donation containers #SQZ3YB whole code).
D. WORK THAT SUSTAINS THE NODE
Volunteer/curation labour at the site
The “filter” — knowing who needs what, holding for specific people (Alise #5A5K3L #WVK5LA #98PCVV
Administrative imbalance acknowledged (Alise #5QRLRU
Building taxonomies — competence acquisition narrated (Linards #KLXGWM trained eye for quality (Ieva #CKX84P
Emotional labour of recalibrating motivation against takers/resellers (Alise #UJLH87 #CNU7RP
Visitor labour that constitutes the practice
Network/logistics labour beyond the site (the “non-domestic” node extending back into homes and streets)
Ita’s neighbour logistics #Y2KBYA #DB3UFD #DWPTQM Valentīna’s building network #DCU5AC #NY9YYW #M9SMFM Jana’s colleagues #P656VF Ira’s parallel logistics to dog shelter, refugees, elderly #P4588R
Marta’s intermediary role for her aunt #TM3MWA #SNJEJF Marta’s recruitment work #VJFRXZ #EMQCLH
Līga’s 30 trips refusing easy disposal — labour as ethical refusal #L3R6NF #RP9HZL #M4VY96 #ESUEL2 #W7S3GS
KEY ARGUMENTATIVE PIVOTS
Brīvbode is a node where private divestment becomes briefly visible and socially acknowledged #B9RXQU #7GEY85 the site condenses three otherwise dispersed practices.
The non-monetary character is sustained by active normative work, not by absence of money: it requires policing reciprocity #JCP9XZ #Z4Y3CL tolerating selective market leakage #BR8392 and dramaturgy of visibility #U5BGXA #MWS97L
The node is non-domestic but the work that sustains it is continuous with domestic consumption work (Hobson framing in #B9RXQU The clearest empirical demonstration is the divestment-network code #GAF5TZ consumption work ordinarily inside households is delegated outward to embedded carriers (Ita, Valentīna, Marta, Līga) who in effect privatise the logistics of the public node.
The strongest single quote candidates for the framing: Alise’s bumblebee #ZF8R4S Līga’s “iekšējā sajūta neļauj” #ESUEL2 /#W7S3GS), Jana’s “piecās minūtēs uz miskasti” #EFYYPG Alise’s “Tas filtrs man ir” #5A5K3L Alise’s “neesam labdarības iestāde, te ir apmaiņas punkts” #JCP9XZ