Civil Society Revisited : : Lessons from Poland / / ed. by Elżbieta Korolczuk, Kerstin Jacobsson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Ekiert, Grzegorz,; Elgenius, Gabriella,; Giza-Poleszczuk, Anna,; Hryciuk, Renata Ewa,; Jacobsson, Kerstin,; Jezierska, Katarzyna,; Kiersztyn, Anna,; Korolczuk, Elżbieta,; Kubik, Jan,; Matysiak, Ilona,; Polanska, Dominika V.,; Płatek, Daniel,; Płucienniczak, Piotr,
• HerausgeberIn: Jacobsson, Kerstin,; Korolczuk, Elżbieta,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Civil Society ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785335525; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785335525?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Elżbieta Korolczuk, Kerstin Jacobsson.

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’.