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

该研究项目的目的在于审查民间社会参与在希腊目前正在进行的改革进程中所能作出的贡献。希腊不仅是受金融和主权债务危机影响最严重的国家，而且在应对巩固和紧缩带来的社会经济影响的过程中，民间社会的参与也出现了复兴。在很大程度上，在传统非政府组织活动的范围之外，公民社会新生的自我组织形式不仅提供了充足的证据，证明希腊社会可以利用相当大的韧性来应对巩固进程的深远影响。此外，它们还突出了国家和社会关系的彻底变化的问题。从表面上看，公民参与的各种倡议、集体和活动证明，希腊有必要更新社会契约，因为它们反映了政治制度不愿调整国家治理和民间社会利益表达之间的关系。因此，研究项目将通过审查广泛的民事行动，从社会经济领域的网络和合作社、兑换网络和平行货币到社会保健中心和农业自助团体，来探讨民间社会自组织在正式非政府组织和非正式(基层)民间社会部门的改革方向。

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.