TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grzegorz Piotrowski
PY  - 2017
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653072471
TI  - In the Shadow of the Iron Curtain
T2  - Central and Eastern European Alterglobalists
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-07247-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050676
N2  - This book examines the alterglobalist activists in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Based on lengthy ethnographic fieldwork and numerous in-depth interviews with key figures of the movement, it covers mobilizations and actions between 1998 and 2011 and analyzes the process of adapting the alterglobalist way of thinking, claims and organizational modes in post-socialist countries. By pointing out the main challenges the movement faced, the author discusses the ways it tried to overcome these. The main argument is that the post-communist legacy (expressed in low levels of mobilization, in rejection of leftist ideals and discourse and in deep mistrust towards political life) had a tremendous impact on the formation and the shape of the alterglobalist movement in the region.
KW  - Social movements, Civil society, Eastern Europe, Anticapitalism, Globalization
LA  - English
ER  -