Civil society in Central and Eastern Europe / Sabine Fischer, Heiko Pleines, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Sabine, editor.

Pleines, Heiko, editor.

Series:

Changing Europe ; Volume 7.

Changing Europe, 1863-8716 ; Volume 7

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Civil society--Asia, Central.

Civil society.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Asia, Central--Politics and government--1991-.

Asia, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem-Verlag, 2014.

Language Note:

German

Summary:

As well as promoting debates about liberal democracy, the dramatic events of 1989 also bought forth a powerful revival in the interest of the notion of civil society. This revival was reflected mainly in two broad tracts of literature. The first was primarily focused on the events surrounding the Solidarity movement in Poland and the tumultuous events of 1980-81. The second was concerned with the ?Velvet Revolutions' more broadly. Following the events of 1989, there appeared a number of works sharing the common central argument that civil society played a key role in the overthrow of thes

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Part I. Dissent under Socialism; 1. Smashing Concrete with Words.The Central European 'Dissidents', Their Representationsand Discourses; 2. The Second Life of the Polish Art World in the Eighties; Part II. Civil Society and Ethnic Divisions.The Case of the Western Balkans; 3. History and Memory. Media Discourse and theConstruction of National Identities; 4. Mapping the Ephemeral.Yugoslav Civic Activism and the 1990s Confl icts; 5. External Democracy Promotion of Civil Society inEthnically Fragmented Post-Socialist Countries

Part III. Finding One's Place in Civil Society.Examples from Russia6. Walking the Tightrope. Russian Disability NGOs' Strugglewith International and Domestic Demands; 7. Striving for Social Change. NGOs in the Field of HIV/AIDS,Drug Policy and Human Rights in the Russian Federation; Part IV. Civil Society after EU Accession; 8. Differential Empowerment for Institutional Change.The EU's Impact on State and Non-State Actors in EasternEurope; 9. The Introduction of Regional Self-Governance in theCzech Republic and Slovakia. EU Conditionality vis-à-visDomestic Societal Pressures

10. German and Polish 'Memory from Below'Part V. Political Participation and Lobbying; 11. Can Civil Society Play a Role in Foreign Policy?Societal Groups in the Czech Republic; 12. The (Un)Importance of Public Opinion in EducationalPolicy-Making in Post-Communist Ukraine. EducationPolicy 'Elites' on the Role of Civil Society in PolicyFormation; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 29, 2014).

ISBN:

9783838260419

3838260414

OCLC:

879023212