Fields of Economic Contention: Cross-Country Perspective
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| Rok publikování | 2024 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | Several decades of neoliberal restructuring led to inquiries related to the societal responses to economic transformations, notoriously captured by K. Polanyi´s concept of societal countermovement (Polanyi 1944; Almeida, Pérez Martín 2022). Various protest cycles challenging the logic of neoliberal policies arise and are coordinated by labour, civil society organizations or political parties. Despite their differences in organizing structures, repertoires, or political ideologies, these actors become part of the specific field of economic contention (Melucci 1996, Crossley 2002). These are relational arenas or meso-level orders of collective action (Diani, Mische 2017) where different actors have topical (sometimes contradictory) stakes, strategies, and targets. Over time, new structures of coordination of collective action occur, are reproduced, or transformed: depending on the change of short-term political-economic opportunities or threats, some actors engage in contention and participate in protest alliances while others withdraw and isolate. This paper aims at further conceptualization and empirical mapping of fields of economic contention using the relational perspective in the study of collective action (Emirbayer 1997; Diani 2015). More specifically, it compares fields of economic contention in two post-socialist countries with the history of rapid re-instalment of capitalism after 1989 – Czechia and Slovakia. The cultural and institutional proximity of these countries enables longitudinal comparison of how short-term political-economic contexts (main type of conflict, access to the institutions, economic and welfare policies) relate to the structure of the field of economic contention: Who engages? Who cooperates with whom? Who crosses sector boundaries? And how is it related to the change of political-economic context? I rely on the dataset of economic protest events (1989-2021) in Czechia (N= 2042) and Slovakia (N=2077) and apply network-analytic approach. |
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