Full Description
The celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall provoked a debate on the outcomes of the transition process in the post-communist countries, including a debate on the functioning of civil society. This provided a good opportunity for researchers to collect new data and revise the discourse on collective action and the dynamics of civil society in these countries. Jacobsson and Saxonberg's collection of essays looks at social movements, and their forms of mobilization and organization, as well as action repertoires in relation to the social context, and their success or failure. The book meets an important need in the discourse on post-communist social movements by going beyond the usual discourse about the weak and non-participatory civil society in the post-communist context. This book gives a nuanced and updated view of social movements in post-communist Europe, by looking at the cases of relatively successful mobilization, by examining groups that have often been neglected in the discourse on social movements and civil society (including animal-rights groups, racist movements and non-feminist family organizations), and by giving a deeper analysis of the different strategies that civil society organizations and groups can use. Rather than expecting social movements in post-communist Europe to follow the same patterns and operate in the same fashion as in Western Europe, this volume shows that a wider view of contentious action is needed in order to understand the variety of strategies employed by collective actors operating in this context.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg; Chapter 2 Channeling and Enrollment: The Institutional Shaping of Animal Rights Activism in Poland, Kerstin Jacobsson; Chapter 3 At the Intersection of Gender and Class: Social Mobilization Around Mothers' Rights in Poland, Renata E. Hryciuk, El?bieta Korolczuk; Chapter 4 1Special thanks are due to the activists of the Hungarian home-birth movement who provided information for this chapter. I am very grateful to Gabriella Nagy and Júlia Spronz for offering updates., Katalin Fábián; Chapter 5 1This work has been prepared as part of a research project funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (grant 1751/42/2008) as well as a research project (code GAP404/10/1586) funded by the Czech Science Foundation., Steven Saxonberg; Chapter 6 From NGOs to Naught: The Rise and Fall of the Czech Gay Rights Movement, Conor O'Dwyer; Chapter 7 1 This work has been prepared as part of the research project Collective Action and Protest in East-Central Europe (code GAP404/11/0462) funded by the Czech Science Foundation., Ond?ej Císa?; Chapter 8 The Social Movement Against Immigration as the Vehicle and the Agent of Racialization in Russia, Nikolay Zakharov; Chapter 9 "Taganka 3" Group: An Instance of Local Urban Activism in Moscow, Aleh Ivanou; Chapter 10 1The research for this chapter was undertaken as part of the EU Compliance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia (ECoBHAS) project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (Grant no. 127796)., Adam Fagan, Indraneel Sircar; Chapter 11 Mobilizing against Post-Communist Autocracy: The Challenge of Competitive Authoritarianism, Philipp Kuntz; conclusion Conclusion, Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg;
