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.
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