Adam Fagan - Activist Citizenship in Southeast Europe

This volume explores recent episodes of progressive citizen-led mobilisation that have spread across Southeast Europe over the past decade. These protests have allowed citizens the opportunity to challenge prevailing notions of citizenship and provided the chance to redress what is perceived to be the unjust balance of power between elites and the masses. Each contribution debunks the myth of inherently passive post-socialist populations imitating West European forms of civil society activism. Rather, we gain a deeper sense of progressive and innovative forms of activist citizenship that display essentialist and particular forms of protest in combination with the antics of global protest networks. Through richly detailed case study research, the authors illustrate that whilst the catalysts for protest in Southeast Europe were invariably familiar (the expanse of private ownership into urban public spaces; the impact of austerity), the pathology of such protests were undoubtedly indigenous in origin, reflecting the particular post-socialist/post-authoritarian trajectories of these societies.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Europe-Asia Studies.

Adam Fagan is Professor of European Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research interest is in civil society and social movements, with a particular focus on the post-authoritarian polities of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. His most recent edited book is The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics (co-edited with Petr Kopeck). Fagan is also the co-editor in chief of East European Politics.

Indraneel Sircar is a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His research focuses primarily on Europeanisation and citizen-led mobilisation in the Western Balkans.

The Routledge Europe-Asia Studies Series focuses on the history and current political, social and economic affairs of the countries of the former communist bloc of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Asia. As well as providing contemporary analyses, it explores the economic, political and social transformation of these countries and the changing character of their relationships with the rest of Europe and Asia.

Recent titles in this series include:

Self-Determination after Kosovo

Edited by Annemarie Peen Rodt and Stefan Wolff

State against Civil Society

Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia

Edited by Cameron Ross

The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

A Comparative Perspective

Edited by Ramona Coman and Luca Tomini

The Ukraine Conflict

Security, Identity and Politics in the Wider Europe

Edited by Derek Averre and Kataryna Wolczuk

Russian Modernisation

Structures and Agencies

Edited by Markku Kivinen and Terry Cox

Authoritarian Powers

Russia and China Compared

Edited by Stephen White, Ian McAllister & Neil Munro

Activist Citizenship in Southeast Europe

Edited by Adam Fagan and Indraneel Sircar

Please find a full list of titles in this series at https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Europe-Asia-Studies/book-series/REAS.

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