Activist Citizenship in Southeast Europe

Adam Fagan is Professor of European Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research interest is in civil society and social movements, with a particular focus on the post-authoritarian polities of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. His most recent edited book is The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics (co-edited with Petr Kopecký). Fagan is also the co-editor in chief of East European Politics.Indraneel Sircar is a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His research focuses primarily on Europeanisation and citizen-led mobilisation in the Western Balkans.

• Introduction: Activist Citizenship in Southeast Europe Adam Fagan & Indraneel Sircar 1. Reshaping Citizenship through Collective Action: Performative and Prefigurative Practices in the 2013–2014 Cycle of Contention in Bosnia & Hercegovina Chiara Milan 2. Between Europe and the Past—Collective Identification and Diffusion of Student Contention to and from Serbia Astrid Reinprecht 3. From Protest to Party: Horizontality and Verticality on the Slovenian Left Alen Toplišek & Lasse Thomassen 4. Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism on the European Semi-periphery: The Right to the City Movement in Croatia Danijela Dolenec, Karin Doolan & Tomislav Tomaševic´5. ‘We Are All Beranselo’: Political Subjectivation as an Unintended Consequence of Activist Citizenship Bojan Bac´a 6. Post-Yugoslav Everyday Activism(s): A Different Form of Activist Citizenship? Piotr Goldstein 7. The Role of the Feminist Movement Participation during the Winter 2012 Mobilisations in Romania Alexandra Ana

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