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This is the first book to examine the development of post-communist social movements of the last decade focusing specifically on various types of rights-based civic activism (ranging from disability organizations and human rights activism to animal rights, gay rights and women's movements) in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia.
List of contents
1. Introduction: A new look at social movements and civil society in post-communist Russia and Poland 2. Disciplining the ‘Second World’: The Relationship between Transnational and Local Forces in Contemporary Hungarian Women’s Social Movements 3. Does the EU help or hinder gay-rights movements in post-communist Europe? The case of Poland 4. Fragmentation of the collective action space: the animal rights movement in Poland 5. The diffusion of public interest mobilisation: a historical sociology perspective on advocates without members in the post-communist Czech Republic 6. Civil society and the state intertwined: the case of disability NGOs in Russia 7. State-sponsored civic associations in Russia: systemic integration or the ‘war of position’?
About the author
Kerstin Jacobsson publishes widely in the field of political sociology, including studies of social movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Her most recent book is Beyond NGO-ization: The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (edited with Steven Saxonberg, Ashgate, 2013).
Steven Saxonberg has published extensively about the collapse of communism and the development of post-communist social policies and social movements. His recent books are: Gendering Family Policies in Post-Communist Europe: A Historical-Institutional Analysis (Palgrave, forthcoming) and Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism: Regime Survival in China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Summary
This is the first book to examine the development of post-communist social movements of the last decade focusing specifically on various types of rights-based civic activism (ranging from disability organizations and human rights activism to animal rights, gay rights and women’s movements) in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia.
