URBAN ACTIVISM IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

• Authors: Alexandra Bitušíková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study brings an overview of selected transdisciplinary theoretical approaches to the study of urban movements and activism placed within the framework of civil society and social movements, focused on the region of Central and Eastern Europe, and seen from a social anthropological perspective. It attempts to challenge older academic writings that described civil society in Central and Eastern Europe as underdeveloped and weak, and presents research that points out a specific nature of activism in the countries of the region. It builds primarily on the concepts of civil society, social movements, urban movements and urban activism as presented by scholars both from “Western” and “Central and Eastern” European countries and demonstrates that after more than two decades since the fall of communism it is still important to take different historic, political, economic, social and cultural contexts into account when comparing urban movements and activism within Europe.

Keywords

EN

CIVIL SOCIETY; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; URBAN MOVEMENT; URBAN ACTIVISM; CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 326 - 338

Contributors

author

Alexandra Bitušíková

• Institute of Ethnology SAS, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic