Civil Society Revisited (eBook)

Lessons from Poland

Kerstin Jacobsson, Elzbieta Korolczuk (Herausgeber)

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2017
352 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-954-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies. Focusing on forms of collective action that researchers have tended to overlook, the studies gathered here show how public discourse legitimizes certain claims and political actions as true civil society, while others are too often dismissed. Taken together, they critique a model of civil society that is made from above .

Autor

Kerstin Jacobsson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. Recent publications include Animal Rights Activism: A Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social Movements (co-authored with Jonas Lindblom, 2016) and the edited volume Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (2015).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Studies on Civil Society
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: political and economic anthropology • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 1-83695-954-0 / 1836959540
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83695-954-0 / 9781836959540