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SSEES鈥檚 Director, Professor Jan Kubik, has contributed to the forthcoming book Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland, which will be launched at SSEES on 22 May.聽 Join Professor Kubik for a discussion with the editors of the volume, Prof Kerstin Jacobsson and Dr El偶bieta Korolczuk, and fellow contributing author Dr Gabriella Elgenius.

In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. However, recent developments, including 鈥榖lack protests鈥� against the proposed abortion ban and demonstrations against Peace and Justice party politics, suggest otherwise. The book Civil Society Revisited offers some insights which may help to understand current events as it challenges the characterization of Polish civil society as underdeveloped on both theoretical and empirical grounds.

Focusing on forms of collective action in Poland that researchers have tended to overlook, the studies gathered here show how public discourse legitimises certain claims and political actions as 鈥渢rue鈥� civil society, while others are too often dismissed. Taken together, they critique a model of civil society that is 鈥榤ade from above鈥�. The volume suggests new ways of conceptualising civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies.

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