1st Edition

Social Movements in the Balkans Rebellion and Protest from Maribor to Taksim

Edited By Florian Bieber, Dario Brentin Copyright 2019
200 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

From Slovenia to Turkey, social movements and protests have shaken the political systems of Southeast Europe. Confronting issues such as austerity, the provision and privatisation of welfare, public utilities and public space, corruption, bureaucratic inefficiency, environmental concerns and authoritarian tendencies, these revolts have also served as conduits for broader social and political... Read more

Introduction - Social Movements and Protests in Southeastern Europe. A New Tragedy of the Commons?

Florian Bieber and Dario Brentin

  1. Divided they Stand: The Dilemma of Non-Formal Political Activism in a Divided Society
  2. Heiko Wimmen

  3. Maribor’s Social Uprising in the European Crisis: from Anti-Politics of People to Politicisation of periphery’s surplus population?
  4. Gal Kirn

  5. Of ‘Stronger State’ and Counter-Democracy. The Street Protests in Bulgaria from 2012 and 2013 in the Accounts of Participants
  6. Valentina Gueorguieva

  7. The Space of Social Mobilizations in Greece
  8. Kostas Plevris

  9. At the Crossroads of Cultural and Ideological Exchange - Behind the Visual Communications of 2012/2013 Slovene Protests
    Ksenija Berk
  10. Social Media and 'Balkans' Spring
  11. Željka Lekic-Subašic

  12. Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees. From Single-Issue Protest to Resonant Mass-Movements in Greece, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina
  13. Chiara Milan and Leonidas Oikonomakis

  14. Mapping Protest Politics: The Roots and Patterns of Elite-Challenging Actions in Post-Communist Southeastern Europe
  15. Marius I. Tatar

  16. The International Context Of Mass Political Unrest in The Balkans – Conceptual Issues and Perspectives

Mark Kramer

Biography

Florian Bieber is a Professor of Southeast European History and Politics at the University of Graz, Austria and director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz and coordinator of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG). He was previously Lecturer in East European Politics at the University of Kent, UK. He received his M.A. in Political Science and History and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Vienna, as well as an M.A. in Southeast European Studies from Central European University (Budapest).





Dario Brentin is a University Assistant at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz. He is also currently completing his PhD thesis at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London working on the topic of sport and national identity in post-Yugoslav Croatia. He obtained his Mag. Phil. in Political Science and Eastern European History at the University of Vienna. He has taught at University of Vienna and has since been a Visiting Lecturer at University of Copenhagen and University of Brighton.

"Social Movements in the Balkans. Rebellion and Protest from Maribor to Taksim serves as a test case for existing theories and— perhaps most importantly—and as an encouragement to conceptualize a global phenomenon that Gal Kirn, in his chapter about ‘Maribor’s Social Uprising in the European Crisis’, terms ‘democratic irruptions’and ‘explosions’"

Christel Zunneberg (Oxford), Suedosteuropa. Journal of Politics and Society 67/1 (2019).