Autor: Tommaso Vitale Datum: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Betreff: [movimenti.bicocca] Political Activism,
Civil Societies and Social Movements in Eastern Europe
> Dear colleagues, >
> first of all, let us wish you a Happy New Year!
>
> We would like to inform you that there is a call for papers for our
> panel on "Political Activism, Civil Societies and Social Movements in
> Eastern Europe: Twenty Years After the Fall of Communism" to be held
> at the 2009 ECPR General Conference in Potsdam, September 10-12.
>
> Much of the early literature on civil society in post-1989 Eastern
> Europe speaks of demobilized, politically apathetic, and distrustful
> post-socialist citizenry. Additionally, the non-governmental sector,
> which sprang up after the fall of communism, has been criticized for
> focusing on the acquisition of donor funding, frequently to the
> exclusion of pursuing local causes, of generating support locally or
> of engaging the local population, and for embracing not local but
> exported Western thinking and agendas. However, questioning the
> assumptions and findings of this wave of scholarship, others have
> documented the existence of broad, porous, and politically relevant
> interpersonal networks as well as a growth in official and societal
> acceptance of East European professional nonprofit organizations as
> legitimate social actors, which regularly interact with state and
> market actors and which have successfully incorporated local elites
> into transnational civil-society networks.
>
> The organizers of this panel invite you to revisit the issue of the
> strengths and weaknesses of civil society in the region by submitting
> a paper preferably in one of the following areas:
>
> 1. East European civicness today
> 2. Civic actors and the quality of democracy in post-communist Europe
> 3. The strengths and weaknesses of advocacy groups and labor unions in
> the region
> 4. Contentious East Europeans? Post-communist protest under scrutiny
> 5. Americanization and Europeanization: Foreign influences on
> political mobilization and civil society capacity-building in Eastern
> Europe
>
> The deadline for submission of paper proposals is February 1, 2009.
> For
> further information and for access to the ECPR's electronic paper
> proposal
> form, please follow:
>
> http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/panel_details.asp?panelID=117 >
> With warm regards,
>
> Ondrej Cisar
> Associate Professor
> Faculty of Social Studies
> Masaryk University
> Brno, Czech Republic
> cisar@???
>
> Steven Saxonberg
> Professor
> Faculty of Social Studies
> Masaryk University
> Brno, Czech Republic
> sax@???
>
