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In person icon Contentious East Europeans

Europe (Central and Eastern)
Civil Society
Conflict
Contentious Politics
Democratisation
Interest Groups
Social Movements
P046
Ondřej Císař
Charles University
Jiří Navrátil
Masaryk University

In person icon Building: Gilbert Scott, Floor: 3, Room: 356

Thursday 09:00 - 10:40 BST (04/09/2014)

Abstract

In the first decade after 1989 the post-communist societies became the object of study as a great laboratory of freshly developing civil societies, including interest groups and social movements, in new democratic settings. However, much less is known about the recent development of these civil societies. Many of East European states and societies have experienced serious political and economic twists: the waves of reconfiguration of democratic institutions, impact of EU membership, transformation of socioeconomic relations, settling of new political cleavages and political actors, and recent economic downturns led to many social and political transformations that were reflected also by civil society actors. These recent transformations of political activism and engagement seem to stay in the shadow of latest waves of mobilizations in the Arab world and the US (but see Kriesi 2012, Beissinger and Sasse 2012). Protests in Ukraine, Hungary and Russia remind us of deep changes in the sphere of civil engagement and ways in which East European states and elites have been challenged by non-state actors, and the long way these actors have come since 1989. Organizers of this panel invite papers that would address current state and changes in the recent development of civil societies, political activism, social movements, or more generally the dynamics of extra-parliamentary contention in East European countries.

Title Details
Europeanisation as a Factor of National Interest Group Political-Cultural Change: The Case of Interest Groups in Slovenia View Paper Details
Under Pressure of Reconstruction: The Czech Advocacy Activism Grows Bold View Paper Details
Radical Activism in Post-Socialist Space: Alliances Between the Squatting Movement and the Tenants’ Movement in Warsaw View Paper Details
Collective Action in Transformation, Transformation in Collective Action: Varieties of Socioeconomic Protest in Post-Communist East-Central Europe View Paper Details