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GRI Book Launch: Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power
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Join the Global Research Institute for the launch of Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power (Routledge, 2024), co-written by W&M Professor Paula Pickering. This book elevates the voices of civic activists from Central and Eastern Europe and analyzes a wealth of information to generate new insights into how activism in the region manages to be vibrant, diverse, and consequential.
Because of these countries’ unique historical trajectory, these activists have, in important ways, leap-frogged their counterparts in the West. Giving special attention to activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, the book focuses on responses to the recent “hard times” – the shrinking of public space for civil society, democratic backsliding, polarization, and Russia’s war in Ukraine. The contributors contend that these activists provide important lessons for others confronting similar challenges around the world.
Dr. Pickering will be joined by her co-authors, Dr. Patrice McMahon of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, currently an advisor for the Community of Democracies in Warsaw, Poland, and Dr. Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, on Zoom. A presentation and Q&A will take place, and a light reception will follow immediately after the event.
Zoom link: https://cwm.zoom.us/j/88290403857?pwd=B9bYXTWHXKz8cqd9TRznkO2WcF2xyn.1
Password: Activism25
Co-sponsored with W&M Libraries, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and Government.
Sponsored by: Global Research Institute
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