Crisis and Civil society. Civil society self-organisation forms and reform process in Greece

该研究项目的目标是审查民间社会参与在希腊目前正在进行的改革进程中可以作出的贡献。希腊并不是受金融和主权债务危机影响最严重的国家，但在应对整合和紧缩的社会经济影响的过程中，也经历了民间社会参与的复兴。在大多数情况下，在传统的非政府组织活动的范围之外，民间社会自我组织的新生形式不仅提供了充分的证据，证明希腊社会可以利用相当大的弹性来应对巩固进程的深远影响。此外，它们还突出了国家与社会关系的根本变化问题。显然，公民参与的多种倡议、集体和活动证明，希腊需要更新社会契约，因为它们反映了政治制度不愿意调整国家治理与公民社会利益表达之间的关系。因此，研究项目应探索以下改革潜力： 通过审查从社会经济领域的网络和合作社、交换网络和平行货币到社会保健中心和农业自助团体等广泛的民间行动，在正式的非政府组织和非正式的（基层）民间社会部门中，对民间社会的自我组织进行了研究。

The objective of the research project consists in examining the contribution civil society engagement can perform in the reform process Greece is currently going through. Greece has not been the country most afflicted by the finance and sovereign debt crisis, but has also in the course of coming to grips with the socio-economic impacts of consolidation and austerity expe-rienced a renaissance of civil society engagement. For the most part beyond the confines of the traditional NGOs activities the nascent forms of civil society's self-organisation have not only pro-vided ample evidence for the considerable amount of resilience Greek society can draw on to meet the far-reaching impacts of the consolidation course. Additionally, they have brought to the fore the question of a thorough-going change in the relations between state and society. To all appearances, the manifold initiatives, collectives and activities of civil engagement testify to the need for a renewal of the social contract in Greece, because they function as a mirror-image of the unwillingness of the political system to readjust the relations between state governance and civil society interest articulation. The research project shall accordingly explore the reform po-tentials of civil society self-organisation both in the formal NGO and the informal (grass roots) civil society sector by examining a wide spectrum of civil action ranging from networks and cooperatives in the field of social economy, exchange networks and parallel currencies to social health centres and agricultural self-help groups.