Abstract
This concluding chapter by Anna Krasteva/Aino Saarinen and Birte Siim sums up the book’s contribution to “critical citizenship studies” in the epoch of transition from globalization to mainstreaming of national populism, conceptualizing civic activism and solidarity movements as challengers to national citizenship, and reinvention of citizenships—contestatory, solidary, everyday, creative, and so on. The challenges are met by the practice of civic actors, pro-migrants, pro-Roma, pro-LGBT, and feminists in nine national case studies. A major contribution of the book is the analysis of the transformation of actors into activists and of vulnerable individuals into self-empowered actors claiming rights, focusing on innovative practices of inclusiveness as politics of solidarity and “acts of friendship”. Civic activism is mapped in the coordinated system of contestatory vs. solidary citizenship and their impact on both politics and policies.
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Donatella della Porta assesses the book’s findings on citizens’ activism and solidarity movements through the theoretical lenses of social movements theory. We’ll complement her excellent synthesis by privileging the citizenship perspective.
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It is not a coincidence that the weeks of finalization of the conclusion are marked by environmental and anti-state-capture mobilizations, and an author of the conclusion was moving back and forth between the street and the desk. This back-and-forth has been a constant source of inspiration for all authors’ activists.
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Term of the Bulgarian extremist party Attack for global capitalism.
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From Slovenia.
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Krasteva, A., Saarinen, A., Siim, B. (2019). Citizens’ Activism for Reimagining and Reinventing Citizenship Countering Far-Right Populism. In: Siim, B., Krasteva, A., Saarinen, A. (eds) Citizens’ Activism and Solidarity Movements. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76183-1_11
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