Practice Theory and Postsocialist Civil Society: Toward a New Analytical Framework
Practice Theory and Postsocialist Civil Society: Toward a New Analytical Framework
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实践理论与后社会主义公民社会:走向新的分析框架
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Bojan Baća
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作者:
Bojan Baća
When discussing postsocialist civil societies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), scholars have predominantly focused on the nonparticipatory and advocacy-oriented activities of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), effectively narrowing the concept of “civil society” to that of the “civic sector.” This actor-focused and normative approach has resulted in a systematic obfuscation of less structured forms of everyday resistance, civic engagement, active citizenship, contentious politics, and social movements, giving only a partial view of civil societies in the region. Through a critical dialogue between state-of-the-art research on postsocialist civil society and the practice turn in international political sociology (IPS), this article postulates an analytical distinction between contentious and compliant practices in order to arrive at a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the ways in which postsocialist civil societies are manifested, enacted, and actualized. On the one hand, the proposed practice turn moves the research agenda away from abstract, universalist, and normative assumptions of what civil society should be in favor of an embedded, contextual, and critical understanding of what it actually is; on the other hand, this shift opens venues for theorizing not only about, but also from the “postsocialist condition” of civil societies in the transnational space of CEE.
影响因子:
2.4
作者:
Grimmel, Andreas;Hellmann, Gunther
通讯作者:
Hellmann, Gunther