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Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland
Kerstin Jacobsson (Ed.)
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Description for Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland
Hardback. In contrast to a social scientific literature that characterizes Polish civil society as weak and passive, this volume focuses on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots. Editor(s): Jacobsson, Kerstin. Series: Studies on Civil Society. Num Pages: 372 pages, 5 figures, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVP; HPS; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society is all too often caricatured as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Focusing on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots, the studies gathered here show how certain forms of activism and claims are legitimized in public discourse as representing civil society proper, while others are unfairly dismissed. Taken together, they constitute a powerful critique of a model of civil society that is 'made from above' by elites, media, and ... Read more
In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society is all too often caricatured as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Focusing on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots, the studies gathered here show how certain forms of activism and claims are legitimized in public discourse as representing civil society proper, while others are unfairly dismissed. Taken together, they constitute a powerful critique of a model of civil society that is 'made from above' by elites, media, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Studies on Civil Society
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785335518
SKU
V9781785335518
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About Kerstin Jacobsson (Ed.)
Kerstin Jacobsson is Professor of Sociology at 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). Elzbieta Korolczuk works as a researcher at Sodertorn University, Sweden, and teaches at the Krytyka Polityczna ... Read more
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