Nouveau livre coordonné par Geoffrey Pleyers & Ionel Sava:
Social movements in Central and Eastern Europe. A renewal of protests and democracy
Editura Universității din București, 2016, 352 p.
The NGOs that dominated the decades after the end of dictatorship have progressively been contested and replaced by social movements, more connected to the population and whose claims often had more social and political dimensions. A new generation of citizens has grown. Their claims and perspective progressively replace the ones of the first post-communism generation, developing protest movements rather than joining institutional NGOs.
Most of the work on “post-communism” has been written by political scientists, and so it has focused on changes in the state. It has also tended to lump all the post-soviet nations together, ignoring the immense diversity among them. This is a monolithic image that this volume should help explore. These nations have different pasts, presents, and futures. Not all social movements are about democracy, although many are. Despite talk of a deficit of civil society and trust, there is a flourishing protest scene, including environmental movements, women’s movements, rightwing nationalist movements, and many more, most of them represented in this volume. (James M. Jasper, City University of New York)
ISBN : 978-606-16-0719-8
Fiche éditeur : http://editura-unibuc.ro/en/magazin/social-movements-in-central-and-eastern-europe-a-renewal-of-protests-and-democracy-second-edition-revised-and-updated-with-an-introduction-by-james-m-jasper/#prettyPhoto