Instititutional constraints and creative solutions: Civil society in Poland in comparative perspective

The project "Instititutional constraints and creative solutions: Civil society in Poland in comparative perspective", is led by Kerstin Jacobsson and is funded by the Swedish Research Council.

The project includes among other things studies of urban movements and mobilizations around housing issues, mobilizations around parenthood, but also environmental and animal rights activism. We would like to problematize the conventional view of the weak civil society in Poland and other post-communist societies. One point of departure is that civil society in this social context partly works in a different manner than in Western Europe but our hypothesis is that it is more dynamic than previous research states. One of the project goals is to capture this dynamic.