[{"_id":"project:1674","_type":"project","abstract":{"en":"During recent years, scholarly attention has been given to civil society in Eastern Europe, and to a certain degree also to the social movements and political protests of the region. Little attention has however been directed towards the impact and role of radical leftist groups in these newly democratized post-communist political systems.  In social movement research it has been noted that anarchist and autonomist groups have played a prominent role for the broader left and new social movements in Western countries since the late 1960s, often appearing as the broader movement’s ’radical flank’. Albeit being a marginal political phenomenon, the ideas, strategies and forms of protests of these radical groups have many times – directly or indirectly – influenced more established organizations, e.g. political parties and trade unions.Especially since the 1990s, anarchist and autonomist activism have been visible through ’street parties’, squatting and during the protests of the Global Justice Movement.  The purpose of this project is to make a comparative analysis of anarchist and autonomist movements in four countries in the Baltic region – Denmark, Germany, Poland and Russia – focusing on their role in contemporary politics. In what respects can one find differences and/or similarities in how these countries’ movements have developed? How can differences or similarities be explained by structural openings or closures in the polities in question, both regarding the movements’ interplay with the state and other political actors, and their ability to intervene in conflicts over the dominant meanings of democracy and politics?  The comparative analysis will be guided by a focus on (1) how the movements’ strategies and alliances are used to achieve political influence, (2) how the movements’ highlight and act upon political and cultural tensions, and (3) how the transnational diffusion of movement ideas and practices impact different national contexts.  Using a comparative framework based in social movement theory, we will conduct interviews, analyze texts and do fieldwork within movement organizations, at events and meeting places. The research group is made up of scholars with extensive experience of research in the countries of the study. The project will be undertaken within the research environment for studies of contemporary social movements in the Baltic region and Eastern Europe, at the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University."},"keywords":{"sv":"Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning","en":"Baltic and East European studies"},"project_id":"A068-2011_OSS","identifier_short":"A068-2011","local_ids":{"sh":["1561/42/2011"]},"dates":{"start_date":"2012-01-01","end_date":"2014-12-31"},"organizations":[{"funding":[{"_id":7,"id":"802400-4155","sv":"Östersjöstiftelsen","en":"The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies"}]},{"coordinating":[{"_id":481,"id":"202100-4896","sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}],"people":[{"project_leaders":[{"_id":"authority-person:377","orcid":"0000-0002-3886-0298","name":"Wennerhag, Magnus","role":"principal_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":11841,"sv":"Sociologi","en":"Sociology","parent":[{"_id":11822,"sv":"Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper","en":"School of Social Sciences","parent":[{"_id":481,"sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}]}]}]},{"other_personnel":[{"_id":"authority-person:872","name":"Sörbom, Adrienne","role":"co_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":504,"id":"202100-3062","sv":"Stockholms universitet","en":"Stockholm University"}]}]}],"tags":[{"_id":11748,"id":"50401","sv":"Sociologi (exklusive socialt arbete, socialpsykologi och socialantropologi)","en":"Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)"}],"titles":{"en":"Anarchists in Eastern and Western Europe - a Comparative Study"},"total_funding":"5872710","type_of_awards":{"sv":"Projektbidrag","en":"Project grant"},"publications":[{"id":"diva2:1752079","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2024]]},"title":"When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–2016","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Jämte","given":"Jan","ORCID":"0000-0003-0491-6588","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Lundstedt","given":"Måns","ORCID":"0000-0001-7537-6422","affiliation":[{"name":"Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Wennerhag","given":"Magnus","ORCID":"0000-0002-3886-0298","localId":"shmswg08","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"abstract":"Descriptions of social movement factionalism are often based on the dichotomous conception of lawful moderates and violent radicals. In this article, we nuance this distinction by illustrating the complexity of radical flanks through an empirically grounded analysis of protest tactics, in which we ask under what conditions radical flanks are likely to use violent protest tactics. Exploring dominant explanations of political violence, the article shows the necessity of understanding the use of violent protest tactics as part of cognitive and relational processes. The use of violent tactics varies greatly across frames and protest issues, pointing to how different logics of protest are tied to different frames. Also, the use of violence is affected by the presence or absence of moderate allies; the likelihood of violence clearly decreases when radicals and moderates form coalitions when organising protests. The analysis is based on a protest event data set covering over 3,900 nonviolent and violent events by the Radical Left-Libertarian Movement in Sweden, 1997–2016. Notably, the results hold over this entire twenty-year period, suggesting that they are robust and provide a better explanation than historically contingent causes.","DOI":"10.1080/09546553.2023.2189966","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85152442840","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51363","page":"679-698","container-title":"Terrorism and Political Violence","ISSN":"1556-1836","keyword":"Political violence; social movement dynamics; radical flank effects; radical left; coalition work; framing","publisher":"Taylor & Francis","published":[{"raw":"2023-04-20T15:00:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2023-04-20T15:00:34.241+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T17:24:30.753+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51363"},{"id":"diva2:1507820","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2020]]},"title":"From Radical Counterculture to Pragmatic Radicalism? The Collective Identity of Contemporary Radical Left-libertarian Activism in Sweden","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Jämte","given":"Jan","ORCID":"0000-0003-0491-6588","localId":"shjnje14","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]},{"family":"Lundstedt","given":"Måns","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Wennerhag","given":"Magnus","ORCID":"0000-0002-3886-0298","localId":"shmswg08","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"DOI":"10.14321/jstudradi.14.1.0001","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85084129856","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-42905","issue":"1","volume":"14","page":"1-36","container-title":"Journal for the Study of Radicalism","ISSN":"1930-1197","publisher":"University of Michigan Press","published":[{"raw":"2020-12-08T16:23:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2020-12-08T16:23:25.366+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T19:40:28.339+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-42905"},{"id":"diva2:1179853","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2017]]},"title":"Radical anti-fascism in Scandinavia : Shifting frames in relation to the transformation of the far right","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Jämte","given":"Jan","affiliation":[{"name":"Örebro University, Sweden"},{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"ISBN":"978-1-315603-48-3","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85040582076","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34488","page":"248-267","container-title":"Radical Left Movements in Europe","publisher-place":"Abingdon, Oxon","publisher":"Routledge","note":"[ed] Magnus Wennerhag; Christian Fröhlich; Grzegorz Piotrowski","published":[{"raw":"2018-02-02T13:20:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2018-02-02T13:20:23.923+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T21:32:39.322+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34488"},{"id":"diva2:1147237","type":"book","issued":{"date-parts":[[2017]]},"title":"Radical left movements in Europe","language":"eng","editor":[{"family":"Wennerhag","given":"Magnus","ORCID":"0000-0002-3886-0298","localId":"shmswg08","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]},{"family":"Fröhlich","given":"Christian","ORCID":"0000-0002-3300-0889","localId":"shcnfh12","affiliation":[{"name":"Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia"}]},{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"496","name":"Södertörns högskola, Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)"},{"name":"European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk, Poland"}]}],"abstract":"When the Iron Curtain lifted in 1989, it was seen by some as proof of the final demise of the ideas and aspirations of the radical left. Not many years passed, however, before the critique of capitalism and social inequalities were once again the main protest themes of social movements. This book provides an account of radical left movements in today’s Europe and how they are trying to accomplish social and political change.The book’s international group of leading experts provide detailed analysis on social movement organizations, activist groups, and networks that are rooted in the left-wing ideologies of anarchism, Marxism, socialism, and communism in both newly democratized post-communist and longstanding liberal-democratic polities. Through a range of case studies, the authors explore how radical left movements are influenced by their situated political and social contexts, and how contemporary radical left activism differs from both new and old social movements on one hand, and the activities of radical left parliamentary parties on the other. Ultimately, this volume investigates what it means to be ‘radical left’ in current day liberal-democratic and capi- talist societies after the fall of European state socialism.This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in European politics, contemporary social movements and political sociology.","ISBN":"978-1-4724-6146-9","DOI":"10.4324/9781315603483","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85040569082","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33558","localId":"1561/42/2011","number-of-pages":"283","publisher-place":"Abingdon, Oxon","publisher":"Routledge","note":"Copyright year 2018","published":[{"raw":"2017-10-05T11:26:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2017-10-05T11:26:39.163+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T21:45:28.700+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33558"},{"id":"diva2:1179832","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2017]]},"title":"Radical left movements in Europe : An introduction","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Wennerhag","given":"Magnus","ORCID":"0000-0002-3886-0298","localId":"shmswg08","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"ISBN":"978-1-4724-6146-9","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85040553289","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34489","localId":"1561/42/2011","page":"1-21","container-title":"Radical Left Movements in Europe","publisher-place":"Abingdon, Oxon","publisher":"Routledge","note":"[ed] Magnus Wennerhag; Christian Fröhlich; Grzegorz Piotrowski","published":[{"raw":"2018-02-02T12:59:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2018-02-02T12:59:31.120+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T21:32:41.538+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34489"},{"id":"diva2:1179862","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2017]]},"title":"Troubles With the (Troubled) Past : Anarchists in Poland After 1989","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"496","name":"Södertörns högskola, Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)"},{"name":"European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk, Poland"}]}],"ISBN":"978-1-4724-6146-9","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85040613276","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34497","page":"137-155","container-title":"Radical left movements in Europe","publisher-place":"Abingdon, Oxon","publisher":"Routledge","note":"[ed] Magnus Wennerhag; Christian Fröhlich; Grzegorz Piotrowski","published":[{"raw":"2017-10-05T13:10:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2018-02-02T13:28:19.545+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T21:32:37.122+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34497"},{"id":"diva2:920381","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"title":"Begreppet extremism - en kritisk introduktion","language":"swe","author":[{"family":"Sörbom","given":"Adrienne","ORCID":"0000-0001-6797-3892","localId":"shaesm09","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]},{"family":"Wennerhag","given":"Magnus","ORCID":"0000-0002-3886-0298","localId":"shmswg08","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"abstract":"Termen ”extremism” har blivit vanligare inom både svensk offentlig debatt och myndighetsprosa. I sådana sammanhang är det dock sällan klart exakt vad som avses med denna term. Inte heller inom samhällsvetenskapen är begreppet extre­ mism oomstritt och inom olika forskningsfält används begreppet på olika sätt. Syftet med Adrienne Sörbom och Magnus Wennerhags artikel är att belysa extremismbegrep­ pets uppkomst och förändrade betydelse under moderniteten, samt att diskutera några av de problem som begreppet är behäftat med. Med hjälp av bland annat vetenskaps­ sociologen Thomas F. Gieryns begrepp ”gränsdragningsarbete” (boundary-work) visar Sörbom och Wennerhag hur begreppet extremism används i fältet mellan vetenskap, politik och samhällsdebatt. Författarnas huvudsakliga poäng är att begreppets utgångs­ punkt i en tydligt normativ föreställning om politiska avvikelser gör det mindre använd­ bart i vetenskapliga sammanhang, eftersom det enbart tar dessa avvikelser för givna och inte erbjuder några förklaringar om varför de uppkommer eller vilken roll de spelar i moderna samhällen. ","DOI":"10.13068/2000-6217.5.1","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29859","localId":"1561/42/2011","issue":"5","page":"15-37","container-title":"ARKIV. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys","ISSN":"2000-6217","keyword":"extremism; avvikelse; radikalisering; gränsdragningsarbete; demokrati; normativitet. publiceringsh","published":[{"raw":"2016-04-18T12:41:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2016-04-18T12:41:34.530+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T09:38:59.325+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29859"},{"id":"diva2:807186","type":"paper-conference","issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"title":"Od post-anarchizmu do pop-anarchizmu","language":"pol","author":[{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"ISBN":"978-83-7972-056-9","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26973","localId":"1561/42/2011","container-title":"Studia z dziejów anarchizmu (2) : w dwusetlecie urodzin Michaiła Bakunina","event":"Szczecin, May 29-31, 2014.","keyword":"Poland; Anarchism; Post-anarchism","publisher-place":"Szczecin","publisher":"Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego","note":"[ed] Skrycki Radosław and Michał Przyborowski","published":[{"raw":"2015-04-22T20:55:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2015-04-22T20:55:23.423+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T10:20:31.029+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26973"},{"id":"diva2:1044354","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"title":"Poland : Local differences and the importence of cohesion","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Polanska","given":"Dominika V.","ORCID":"0000-0002-4304-5060","localId":"shdapa05","affiliation":[{"name":"Uppsala universitet"},{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]},{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"496","name":"Södertörns högskola, Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)"}]}],"abstract":"Two Polish cities, Warsaw and Poznań, are studied in the article to examine how external structures are handled and used by squatters in these two settings. The aim is to analyze opportunity structures that condition the emergence and development of squatting and how squatters respond to and utilize these opportunities. Our ambition is to understand why squatting has developed differently in the two cities by emphasizing the duration and cohesion of the squatting scene as pivotal for the different trajectories of squatting. It is argued in the article that the durability of the squatting environment abates tendencies to open the squatting scene to external coalitions and establish more institutionalized forms of political struggle.","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31064","localId":"1561/42/2011","issue":"1-2","volume":"IX","page":"46-56","container-title":"Baltic Worlds","ISSN":"2001-7308","keyword":"squatting; Poland; opportunity structures; cohesion; durability","published":[{"raw":"2016-11-03T09:38:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2016-11-03T09:38:57.422+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T22:27:41.947+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31064"},{"id":"diva2:1044431","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"title":"Radical Urban Movements in Poland : the case of squatting","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]},{"family":"Polanska","given":"Dominika V.","ORCID":"0000-0002-4304-5060","localId":"shdapa05","affiliation":[{"name":"Uppsala University"}]}],"abstract":"Radical social movements are more and more often the subject of academic inquiry, where their agenda, identity-building processes and repertoires of action are examined vis a vis the dominant discursive opportunity structures. The case study presented in this articleis the squatting movement in Poland. We interpret this movement, its actions and in particular alliance-building strategies, through the perspective of radical flanks of broader urban social movements environment.","DOI":"10.5604/20842937.1212304","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31069","localId":"1561/42/2011","issue":"1","volume":"17","page":"53-69","container-title":"Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica","ISSN":"2354-0389","keyword":"squatting; post-socialism; urban movements; Poland","published":[{"raw":"2016-11-03T12:41:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2016-11-03T12:41:55.354+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T22:27:36.573+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31069"},{"id":"diva2:1056510","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"title":"Why Did It Not Happen Here? : The Gradual Radicalization of the Anarchist Movement in Sweden 1980–90","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Jämte","given":"Jan","affiliation":[{"name":"Örebro Universitet"}]},{"family":"Sörbom","given":"Adrienne","ORCID":"0000-0001-6797-3892","localId":"shaesm09","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"abstract":"This chapter examines the development and role of the anarchist movement in Sweden during the 1980s. In relation to many other parts of Northern Europe – which had seen an upsurge in radical left-libertarian activism, squatting and urban unrest at the turn of the 1980s – such social movements and confrontations remained a marginal phenomenon in Sweden, at least until the end of the decade. However, by the late 1980s a new generation of younger activists, often with roots in the anarchist milieu, formed the basis for a radical squatter and autonomist movement, which proved very similar to the movements that had developed throughout Europe almost a decade earlier.","ISBN":"9781137565693","DOI":"10.1007/978-1-137-56570-9_7","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31374","page":"97-111","container-title":"A European Youth Revolt : European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s","keyword":"Anarchist activists; radicalization; political opportunities; repertoires of action","publisher-place":"Basingstoke","publisher":"Palgrave Macmillan","note":"[ed] Bart van der Steen and Knud Andresen","published":[{"raw":"2016-12-15T01:48:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2016-12-15T01:48:50.414+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T22:17:53.380+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31374"},{"id":"diva2:895379","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2015]]},"title":"Always against the state? : An analysis of Polish and Swedish radical left-libertarian activists’ interaction with institutionalized politics","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]},{"family":"Wennerhag","given":"Magnus","ORCID":"0000-0002-3886-0298","localId":"shmswg08","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"abstract":"Radical left-libertarian movements are often regarded as primarily seeking ways to accom-plish social and political change outside the framework of institutionalized politics. Previous research, however, has paid little or no attention to the question of these activists’ actual interactions with institu-tionalized politics, nor has it addressed the ways these interactions could be understood in relation to their overall strategies and ideology. This article therefore explores whether, and to what extent, such interaction actually occurs and analyzes the meanings and motives radical left-libertarian activists – from anarchist, autonomist, and anarcho-syndicalist groups – attribute to various types of political actions, ranging from voting and lobbying to protests and direct action. We furthermore compare activists in Po-land and Sweden, in order to scrutinize whether cross-country differences in “political opportunities” affects the activists’ political strategies and ideas about how social and political change can best be ac-complished. Contrary to popular beliefs and many activists’ own self-declarations, our analysis shows that radical left-libertarian groups do in fact try to achieve political change by interacting with institution-alized politics. While radical left-libertarian activists do in most cases prefer “direct action”, this article explores how a more complex relationship to institutionalized politics allows them to accomplish real and immediate changes at the grassroots level.","DOI":"10.1285/i20356609v8i3p845","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85006021059","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29211","localId":"1561/42/2011","issue":"3","volume":"8","page":"845-875","container-title":"PArticipation and COnflict","ISSN":"2035-6609","keyword":"Social Movements; Radical Left-Libertarian Movements; Direct Action; Poland; Sweden","published":[{"raw":"2016-01-18T21:48:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2016-01-18T21:48:31.094+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T09:52:14.899+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29211"},{"id":"diva2:800532","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2015]]},"title":"The transformative power of cooperation between social movements : squatting and tenants’ movements in Poland","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Polanska Vergara","given":"Dominika","ORCID":"0000-0002-4304-5060","localId":"shdapa05","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"},{"id":"496","name":"Södertörns högskola, Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)"}]},{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"abstract":"Squatting, or the use of property without the legal permission, and tenants’ activism are under-researched areas, in particular in the post-socialist context. Poland has been pointed out as extraordinary on the map of squatting in post-socialist Europe and a considerable number of tenants’ organizations are active in the country. What is most interesting is that squatters’ and tenants’ activists are forming alliances, despite their obvious differences in their organizational models, social composition, along with the specific motives and goals of their activism. The objective of this article is to examine the relations between the tenants’ and squatting movements in Poland by studying two cities where both movements are established and closely cooperating. In particular we are interested in the transformative power of such cooperation and we assume that cooperation between social movements results in negotiations and transformations of the social movement actors involved. The empirical foundations for this article are 50 interviews, whereof 30 interviews conducted in Warsaw with squatters and tenants’ movement activists and 20 interviews conducted with activists in Poznań. Warsaw and Poznań are, moreover, two Polish cities where the squatting movement is most vibrant and where squatters and tenants have achieved some considerable successes in their activities. The article argues against previous studies emphasizing access to abundant resources and identity alignment as crucial for the mobilization of collective and collaborative action. Instead, it argues that the lack of resources might also be driving social movements towards cooperation, as a kind of compensation. Moreover, our cases demonstrate that ideology and identity alignment in social movements create stagnation with regard to openness towards new allies. We therefore argue that a high degree of identity alignment and ideological consistency might discourage the formation of new alliances.","DOI":"10.1080/13604813.2015.1015267","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-84926364546","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26802","issue":"2-3","volume":"19","page":"274-296","container-title":"City","ISSN":"1470-3629","keyword":"social movement; alliance building; cooperation; squatting; tenants; Poland","published":[{"raw":"2015-04-07T08:47:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2015-04-07T08:47:27.690+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T10:22:40.075+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26802"},{"id":"diva2:771465","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2014]]},"title":"Squatting in the East – Rozbrat in Poland","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"abstract":"Squatters and autonomous movements have been in the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century—from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent. Through the compilation of the local movement histories of eight different cities—including Amsterdam, Berlin, and other famous centers of autonomous insurgence along with underdocumented cities such as Poznan and Athens—The City Is Ours paints a broad and complex picture of Europe’s squatting and autonomous movements. Each chapter focuses on one city and provides a clear chronological narrative and analysis accompanied by photographs and illustrations. The chapters focus on the most important events and developments in the history of these movements. Furthermore, they identify the specificities of the local movements and deal with issues such as the relation between politics and subculture, generational shifts, the role of confrontation and violence, and changes in political tactics. ","ISBN":"9781604866834","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25484","localId":"1561/42/2011","page":"233-253","container-title":"The City Is Ours : Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present","keyword":"Squatting; Poland","publisher-place":"Oakland CA","publisher":"PM Press","note":"[ed] van Hoogenhuijze, Leendert and Van Der Steen, Bart","published":[{"raw":"2014-12-13T23:53:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2014-12-13T23:53:30.691+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T10:40:21.555+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25484"},{"id":"diva2:799978","type":"paper-conference","issued":{"date-parts":[[2014]]},"title":"Why it didn´t happen here : The development of the Anarchist Movement in Sweden 1980-1990","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Sörbom","given":"Adrienne","ORCID":"0000-0001-6797-3892","localId":"shaesm09","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]},{"family":"Jämte","given":"Jan","ORCID":"0000-0003-0491-6588","localId":"shjnje14","affiliation":[{"name":"Umeå  University"},{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26782","localId":"1561/42/2011","container-title":"On conference website","event":"A European Youth Revolt in 1980/81?, Amsterdam, May 15-17,2014.","keyword":"Anarchism; Sweden; 1980ies; Opportunity Structures; Consensus Culture","published":[{"raw":"2015-04-01T11:04:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2015-04-01T11:04:35.000+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T10:23:00.338+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26782"},{"id":"diva2:665352","type":"speech","issued":{"date-parts":[[2013]]},"title":"A Matter of ‘Extremism’? : Ideas about democracy and political change within Anarchist and Autonomist activists in Sweden","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Sörbom","given":"Adrienne","ORCID":"0000-0001-6797-3892","localId":"shaesm09","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]},{"family":"Wennerhag","given":"Magnus","ORCID":"0000-0002-3886-0298","localId":"shmswg08","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to identify the relationship towards democracy amongst anarchist and autonomist movement activists. Using the case of activists in Sweden, we scrutinize the relationship to the idea and practice of democracy found in contemporary radical left. How is democracy framed in groups such as these? By so doing we wish to add to and develop the research field on left movements and parties that sometimes are labeled “extreme”. We believe that the “extremism” concept is troublesome in several ways, mainly since it is an ‘asymmetrical concept’ in Koselleck’s sense. In spite of this acknowledgement, we will tentatively use it, in order to mirror and thereby capture how “democracy”, as an idea and practice, is framed by anarchist and autonomous activists.In the paper we compare the notion of extremism with the ideas of autonomous and anarchist activist activists in Sweden. The five common elements attributed to the concept of extremism could not be found in the interviews. To the contrary, using the concept in order to find extremism showed a pattern of values usually attributed to the concept of ”deliberative democracy”. ","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20211","page":"1-25","event":"ECPR General Conference Sciences Po, Bordeaux 4–7 september 2013.","keyword":"politics; values; democracy; extremism; anarchist","published":[{"raw":"2013-11-19T17:19:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2013-11-19T17:19:07.284+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T11:21:28.394+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20211"},{"id":"diva2:683771","type":"paper-conference","issued":{"date-parts":[[2013]]},"title":"Anarchists in Poland – a new generation of the Left?","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21024","localId":"1561/42/2011","event":"BASEES / ICCEES European Congress “Europe: Crisis and Renewal”, April 5 – 8, 2013 – Cambridge, the United Kingdom","keyword":"anarchism; leftism; anti-authoritarianism; Poland","published":[{"raw":"2014-01-06T20:15:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2014-01-06T20:15:34.982+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T11:16:23.557+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21024"},{"id":"diva2:660267","type":"speech","issued":{"date-parts":[[2013]]},"title":"Challenging Consensus in Civil Society : Anarchist activists in Poland and in Sweden","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Wennerhag","given":"Magnus","ORCID":"0000-0002-3886-0298","localId":"shmswg08","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]},{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20071","localId":"1561/42/2011","event":"“The Challenge of Collective Action: New Perspectives on Civil Society and Social Activism in Contemporary Poland”, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, 18–19 October 2013.","published":[{"raw":"2013-10-29T11:27:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2013-10-29T11:27:58.071+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T11:23:03.431+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20071"},{"id":"diva2:687637","type":"speech","issued":{"date-parts":[[2013]]},"title":"Dog lovers and vegan liberators : Fractures and tensions within the Animal Rights Movement in Russia","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Fröhlich","given":"Christian","ORCID":"0000-0002-3300-0889","localId":"shcnfh12","affiliation":[{"id":"11841","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"abstract":"Since the 1990s Russia saw many social movements emerging due to developing spaces of social activism and a rising concern of citizens for their immediate surroundings. Although the Putin reign closed many opportunities, social activism in spaces which are not directly connected to political concerns survived and developed further. The example of the animal rights movement shows how its main concern for shelter and survival of homeless animals units a wide range of Russian citizens and mostly stays under the radar of state security organs. However, the access to information to world-wide developments supported the emergence of more radical forms of activism for universal rights of animals, such as animal liberation, property destruction and street protests. These currents were brought in by followers of vegan/vegetarian lifestyles and by anarchists, which propose oppositional positions and radical critiques on society as a whole.The paper gives an overview over the main concerns of the Russian animal rights movement and shows how demands and critiques differ according to ideological backgrounds and social positions of their agents. On the one hand, ideological cleavages among concerned citizens and activists cause also differences in organizational approaches to social activism, which makes cooperation and mutual support difficult. But on the other, the Russian movement for the rights of animals succeeds in supporting the diffusion of international lifestyle values and forms of social activism.","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21333","localId":"1561/42/2011","event":"BASEES/ICCEES European Congress “Europe: Crisis and Renewal”, Cambridge, UK, April 5-8, 2013.","published":[{"raw":"2014-01-14T20:29:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2014-01-14T20:29:41.545+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T11:12:38.900+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21333"},{"id":"diva2:683770","type":"paper-conference","issued":{"date-parts":[[2012]]},"title":"Anarchism in post-socialism : A case of Polish anarchists","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"7508","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21023","localId":"1561/42/2011","event":"Anarchist Studies Network Conference 2.0: ’Making Connections’","keyword":"anarchism; anarchists; post-socialism; Poland; Eastern Europe","published":[{"raw":"2014-01-06T20:13:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2014-01-06T20:13:43.531+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T11:16:24.960+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21023"},{"id":"diva2:687636","type":"speech","issued":{"date-parts":[[2012]]},"title":"Anarchist movement in contemporary Russia","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Fröhlich","given":"Christian","ORCID":"0000-0002-3300-0889","localId":"shcnfh12","affiliation":[{"id":"7508","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21332","localId":"1561/42/2011","event":"Anarchist Studies Network Conference 2.0‘Making Connections’, Loughborough, UK, September 3-5, 2012.","keyword":"anarchism; social movement; Russia","published":[{"raw":"2014-01-14T20:25:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2014-01-14T20:25:42.414+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T11:12:40.165+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21332"},{"id":"diva2:683769","type":"paper-conference","issued":{"date-parts":[[2012]]},"title":"Anarchist movement in post-socialist context","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Piotrowski","given":"Grzegorz","ORCID":"0000-0001-5193-4661","localId":"shgzpi12","affiliation":[{"id":"7508","name":"Södertörns högskola, Sociologi"}]}],"NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21022","localId":"1561/42/2011","event":"Anarchist Studies Network Conference 2.0: ’Making Connections’","keyword":"anarchism; post-anarchism; autonomism","published":[{"raw":"2014-01-06T20:11:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2014-01-06T20:11:57.751+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T11:16:26.190+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21022"}],"links":[{"type":"pid","link":"https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/api/project/swecris/project:1674"}]}]