TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ekiert,Grzegorz
AU  - Elgenius,Gabriella
AU  - Giza-Poleszczuk,Anna
AU  - Hryciuk,Renata Ewa
AU  - Jacobsson,Kerstin
AU  - Jezierska,Katarzyna
AU  - Kiersztyn,Anna
AU  - Korolczuk,Elżbieta
AU  - Kubik,Jan
AU  - Matysiak,Ilona
AU  - Polanska,Dominika V.
AU  - Płatek,Daniel
AU  - Płucienniczak,Piotr
TI  - Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland 
T2  - Studies on Civil Society
SN  - 9781785335518
AV  - JN6766 .C5 2017
U1  - 300.9438 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Civil society
KW  - Poland
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Sociology, Political and Economic Anthropology
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION. RETHINKING POLISH CIVIL SOCIETY --; PART I Civil Society in Contemporary Poland: Myths and Realities --; Chapter 1 CIVIL SOCIETY IN POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE: POLAND IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE --; Chapter 2 (MIS)UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ACTIVISM IN POLAND --; Chapter 3 Rethinking Civic Privatism in a Postsocialist Context: Individualism and Personalization in Polish Civil Society Organizations --; Chapter 4 DEFINING IN/DEFINING OUT: CIVIL SOCIETY THROUGH THE LENS OF ELITE NGOS --; PART II (De)legitimization of Civic Activism: New Actors and Marginalized Groups --; Chapter 5 WHEN PARENTS BECOME ACTIVISTS EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND FAMILY --; Chapter 6 ON THE DISAPPEARING MOTHER POLITICAL MOTHERHOOD, CITIZENSHIP, AND NEOLIBERALISM IN POLAND --; Chapter 7 MARGINALIZING DISCOURSES AND ACTIVISTS’ STRATEGIES IN COLLECTIVE IDENTITY FORMATION: THE CASE OF THE POLISH TENANTS’ MOVEMENT --; Chapter 8 VOICE AND INSECURITY: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AMONG MEMBERS OF THE PRECARIAT --; PART III Civil Society Making: Between the Past and the Present --; Chapter 9 BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY: THE CASE OF RURAL WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS IN POLAND --; Chapter 10 ETHNIC BONDING AND HOMING DESIRES: THE POLISH DIASPORA AND CIVIL SOCIETY MAKING --; Chapter 11 MOBILIZING ON THE EXTREME RIGHT IN POLAND: MARGINALIZATION, INSTITUTIONALIZATION, AND RADICALIZATION --; CONCLUSION: EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL LESSONS FROM THE VOLUME --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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’
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785335525?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785335525
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785335525/original
ER  -