Research note

Evidence map for non-monetary/non-domestic-node RQ — coded spreadsheet rows (XGCWS4)

Evidence map — STRONGEST rows from the coded spreadsheet #XGCWS4 “IEVA coded excerpts”) for the RQ “How are divestment, acquisition and circulation organised in a non-monetary, non-domestic node, and what work sustains them?”

Spreadsheet structure: 17 sheets, one per interviewee plus the field-notes file #YASYZN Codes are repeated as column labels per row, so the same excerpt block id appears under several codes. Codes most relevant to this RQ: • “Disposal, flow of goods, intense circulation” • “Consumption work, volunteer work, work of disposal and acquisition” • “Social relations – networks, relations in Brīvbode, exchange relations” • “Rules, successful practice, skills, know-how, techniques” • “Morālā ekonomika” • “Friction” • “Apmeklētāju dažādība”

A. DIVESTMENT — how it is organised (rows under “Disposal, flow of goods…”)

  • Maisiņš/batch divestment as routine: #TEUXGT (fieldnotes row 1180 — three bags, relief). #KGJ857 same row, coded under “Fun/sustainability/guilt”.

  • Category-by-category sorting as practical wisdom: Agnese row 1331/1061/76 — single duplicated quote in #WT2LES / #SQYFPS / #K2RFDW Reinforced by Agnese row 1339 #D5BEPS (weekend cost: “dažreiz ir žēl, ka paiet tās nedēļas nogale… kaut ko kārtojot”).

  • KonMari-style audits: Jana row 1305/1052 #C9V9FK / #VYKURM (“ārprāts, tur ir tik daudz”).

  • Hierarchy of routes (sell → give → Brīvbode → container): Agnese after buying flat row 1328 #438FZA Vika’s hierarchy in fieldnotes #32EUK9 (row 1196: “labākas lietas Andelē, vidēji labas Brīvbodē, sliktākas konteinerā”); Līga row 1386 #DT4W43

  • Pre-bringing quality check: Agate row 1256 #X2VRBE (sorts at home so things don’t sit unworn for 2 months).

  • Self-assessment of donor norm violations: Laura L. row 1342/1155 #6MQQ52 / #AEEMM8 (“daudz lietu, kuras varbūt vajadzētu nest uz tekstila konteineri, nevis uz Brīvbodi”).

  • Anxiety/relief loop in fieldnotes: #9V26MJ / #8YEXY4 (rows 496 / 1193) — divestment tied to mental energy of storage.

  • Resistance from cohabitants: Jana’s son (row 1303 #ENBGTC / row 606 #4DE547

B. ACQUISITION — how it is organised (rows under “Rules, successful practice, skills…” and “Consumption practices”)

  • Queue-before-opening as competency: fieldnotes rows 16/116 #MCNPUJ / #RZUR8A (8 in line at 11.43; Agate explicit about timing with older ladies’ taste). Row 654/1094 #XKBQJT / #GBQ98C (rush to the small-items table at 12:00). #8SX7Z2 (in thesis prose, but echoes rows).

  • Jana’s typology of visitor durations: row 214/1045 #CHDP8L / #A4T9H8 (some come for half-an-hour, some stay 15:00–19:00).

  • Late-arrival joke: row 988 #R7SB5M (Linards: “Viss jau izķerts”).

  • “Talented op-shopper” self-description: Laura L. row 1068/1156 #RNSLAM / #C466UT

  • Acquisition as process not outcome: Alise row 164/523 #MPRZ2T / #XCNDTT (“Man drīzāk ir pats tas process – iet un meklēt”).

  • Browsing while volunteering: fieldnotes row 968 #FQX7PX (donor-side guilt about looking).

C. NON-MONETARY CHARACTER — how exchange is held in place

  • Non-charity / exchange-point statement (Alise’s signature claim, repeated under multiple codes): • Alise row 875/375/282/535 #KN9KRP / #QVA8V8 / #MNWGGK / #ZLCPXN (“mēs neesam palīdzības punkts, te ir apmaiņas punkts”). • Alise row 1023/876/283 #2PQM8H / #5QFRMR / #ABKGT2 (equality of all exchangers; Ukrainians “saprata, ka šis ir apmaiņas punkts”).

  • Linards’ alternative framing: row 292/548 #RYPVBT / #ZCX4VX (“Mūsu mērķis nav darīt labu cilvēkiem… mūsu mērķis ir darīt labu planētai”; reframes from charity to fun/fanīgi).

  • Visitor uptake of the norm: • Marta row 919/1133 #5DGGDB / #H7T6PA (“Es to vārdu ‘brīvu’ kaut kā izslēdzu… kā apmaiņu”). • Ira row 289/890 #2PYRSF / #NB63C5 (“čista energetičeski vajag apmaiņa”). • Fieldnote row 757 #SWZX3T (donor-taker symmetry felt as fairness).

  • Norm enforcement at the door: Jana row 1043/1292 #8B83WU / #FTHCSY (must explain reciprocity); Linards row 898 #ZXWFUR (“nenotiek enerģijas apmaiņa, tu vienkārši jūti, ka tur novampirē”); fieldnote rows 814/996 #FS5Z73 / #XX4BM9 (Ira clashes with Gunta over too many bags).

  • Boundary with the market — internal critique: Linards row 1119 #S6RW99 (resellers / “sociālais kontingents”); Alise on “Elga the truffle pig” #MXDNLD / #RJHD4Q (rows 1095 / 797).

D. WHAT WORK SUSTAINS THE NODE

D1. Onsite curation / volunteer labour

  • The “filter” — contextualizing objects for owners: Alise row 686 #U9KVGX (the long monologue about finding “owners” for unattractive items by placing them in the right context, festival, theme).

  • Sorting children’s clothes with friction: fieldnote row 1191 #R6CKY9 (Linards “Alise ir zero waste, es ne”); row 653 #MVLZQ3 (Alise: “man vairs nav tolerances pret mantām”).

  • Tolerance-management at the entrance: • Alise row 857/1020 #4264V5 / #GS6GYR (lets in 5-6 at a time vs. Linards’ strict 30-minute limit). • #W9X5TW (row 279 — Alise compares the slow Brīvbode let-in to the chaotic Viskaļi method). • Fieldnote row 760 #48K4GX

  • Discipline work with greedy takers: row 982 #PCX3EQ (Alise: “Citi cilvēki arī gribētu ņemt grāmatas”).

  • Fieldwork of the researcher as volunteer: rows 19 / 1206 #XW5L6L / #G8ENWD (sorting at home as preparation for Brīvbode trip, self-as-volunteer).

  • Volunteer-to-volunteer friction: rows 264 / 823 #MLC6AX / #N54C8P (Gundega+Linards put out Ira’s stored items, including her documents — labour conflict makes the curation work visible).

  • Alise’s other, more humorous side of curation: row 278 #YGU32M (tolerating a co-volunteer’s stuffed-animal aesthetic in the spirit of voluntarism).

D2. Visitor-side competencies & emotional labour

  • Linards’ rotating-presence anchor effect: Ira row 894 #AMT8Z9 (“A ceturtdien: ‘A kur ir Ira?’ A piektdien: ‘A kur ir Linards?’”).

  • Marta’s first-time guilt / learning the rule: #5DGGDB / #H7T6PA (already cited under C).

  • Sense of obligation as burden: Zane R. row 414/1167 #396TMV / #2CF35M (“reizēm vieglāk būtu vieglāk”). Mirrors Līga.

D3. The wider network: domestic+neighbour labour that feeds the public node — strongest cluster for the “non-domestic node continuous with domestic work” argument

  • Ita’s near-weekly neighbour logistics: rows 922/1278 #HKLQQD / #E5JCPA (only 1 in many goes herself; rest route through Ita); rows 923/1279/55 #LGJ3S2 / #WZ7KG9 / #TH67YS (≈5 regular neighbours; coordinates pickup, also takes acquisition commissions).

  • Valentīna row 911/1258 #8VK3T4 / #G8QTRV (“Kaimiņi… ‘Es piektdien eju uz Brīvbodi’, tad viņi piešauj klāt kaut ko”).

  • Ira’s network beyond the building: row 889 #G7Y469 (offers to come to neighbours any day); cf. fieldnote row 796 #UPQN4W (Ira’s habit of giving items to others as showing know-how/goodwill).

  • Agnese’s intergenerational magazine chain: row 947/453 #UPDSUX / #KPXJWM (80-year-old neighbours route magazines through her to her colleagues — a parallel non-Brīvbode circulation she also uses).

  • Līga’s 30-trip refusal of clearance firm: row 1375 #8YV6ZJ (“es tur 30 reizes braukāju”) and the embodied driver: row 424 #UNUSRE (“man tā iekšējā sajūta neļauj to darīt vienkārši”).

  • The structural reason the labour falls on her: row 1389/322 #7NM3NF / #G67YJK (“ja šādas situācijas akumulētos vairākas, tad es saprastu, ka nē, ir vieglāk izmest ārā” — describing the counter-pressure).

  • Reseller as ecological function (managing accumulation outside the household): cited above.

D4. Decluttering culture and the gendered division of labour as backdrop

  • Zane R.’s named critique of decluttering culture: rows 1366/419/1168/629 #3R6TGZ / #7S8UXT / #MFGBC7 / #D8VDBD (“lieko krāmu izmešanas kultūra”; YouTube minimalism + finance influences).

  • Linards on Marie Kondo: row 1027/147/1244 #W4WMCV / #9AGUCV / #WFZQMW (suggests Brīvbode should “advertise such methods” to get higher-quality donations).

  • Fieldnote row 977 #AEACUN / row 6 #5R59RH (Gundega on “kārtošanas konsultantu” TV).

  • Alise on the ironic relief that volunteering at Brīvbode lets her not feel guilty about her own waste sorting: row 358/517 #XD5V7K / #GQLR2H

KEY ARGUMENTS THE ROW EVIDENCE SUPPORTS

  1. Brīvbode as a non-monetary node is sustained by ACTIVE NORMATIVE WORK, not the absence of money. The Alise row #KN9KRP and the Linards row #RYPVBT are the foundational pair: charity-vs-exchange and charity-vs-fun are the two managers’ framings, both anti-charity but in different directions. Visitor uptake #5DGGDB Marta, #2PYRSF Ira, #SWZX3T fieldnote) shows the norm propagating; #ZXWFUR / #FS5Z73 / #PCX3EQ show its policing.

  2. The non-domestic node is CONTINUOUS WITH DOMESTIC WORK and depends on a ring of household-embedded carriers: Ita, Valentīna, Ira, Līga, Agnese. The clearest empirical pattern is that the cost of being a public node is privatised back into individual women’s logistics labour (Ita rows 922–923, Valentīna row 911, Līga row 1375, Agnese row 1339). This is not a side effect — it is what makes the public node viable.

  3. The work is THREE CONCENTRIC RINGS: (a) Onsite curation/admin: Alise row 686 #U9KVGX Alise vs Linards on let-in rhythm (rows 857/1020 vs Linards’ enforcement); rows 264/823 show conflict-as-evidence-of-work. (b) Visitor temporal/evaluative competence: row 16 #MCNPUJ row 1256 Agate #X2VRBE Jana’s typology row 214; Laura L.’s self-assessment. (c) Neighbourhood logistics: Ita, Valentīna, Ira, Marta, Līga clusters above.

  4. The strongest single quote candidates with row IDs to keep handy: • Alise on exchange-not-charity — rows 875 / 282 / 375 / 535 (all the same quote, multiply coded) — pick #KN9KRP as the canonical block. • Līga’s “iekšējā sajūta neļauj” — row 424 #UNUSRE followed by row 1375 #8YV6ZJ (“es tur 30 reizes braukāju”). • Ira’s “čista energetičeski vajag apmaiņa” — row 289/890 #2PYRSF / #NB63C5 • Marta’s first-time exchange-uptake — row 919/1133 #5DGGDB • Alise on curating context for items — row 686 #U9KVGX • Linards’ “darīt labu planētai, nevis cilvēkiem” — row 292/548 #RYPVBT • Agnese on category-sorting + weekend cost — rows 1061/1339 #SQYFPS + #D5BEPS • Ita on neighbour delegation — row 922/1278 #HKLQQD / #E5JCPA

The earlier note #7K5HXW maps the same RQ across the THESIS-prose code sections #3S645Y and #8B58LN This note covers the actual SPREADSHEET row corpus #XGCWS4 and should be used in tandem.