Abstract
The introduction by Birte Siim, Anna Krasteva, and Aino Saarinen situates the book within the scholarly literature and European research. It is inspired by the challenges to understand the new forms of national populism linked to globalization, European integration, migration, and multiculturality/multiculturalism. The transformation of the political landscape, deconstruction of welfare states, and growth of exclusive nationalisms across Europe following the immigration and “refugee crisis” present a challenge to counterforces and solidarity movements to combat othering and exclusion. Hate speech and hate acts flourish, even in regimes that have previously been characterized as tolerant and inclusive. The aim is to make counterforces to right-wing populism in civil society visible and reflect critically on concepts such as citizenship, democracy, social movements, conflicts, and cooperation around race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class.
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Greece was part of the national case-studies of the first three books of the RAGE project but is unfortunately not included in this book. We decided to include a chapter focusing on Germany instead in order to study examples of migrant self-organization.
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Siim, B., Saarinen, A., Krasteva, A. (2019). Citizens’ Activism and Solidarity Movements in Contemporary Europe: Contending with 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_1
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