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- Baca, Bojan, 1984
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"Demanding What is Not Theirs to Demand": Rebellious Students in Post-Socialist Montenegro
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Ingår i: When Students Protest: Universities in the Global North. - New York, USA : Rowman & Littlefield. - 9781786611796 ; , s. 141-158
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores the two most prominent (political) student movements in Montenegro's post-socialist history. The first emerged on the public stage during a turbulent 1991–1992 period, which saw the rise of the Anti-War Movement; the second movement appeared during 2010–2011 and laid the foundation for the 2012 civil society uprising against systemic corruption, austerity measures, and neoliberal policies. Using archival newspaper reports, this chapter investigates the diverse ways in which students publicly challenged official undemocratic discourses and authoritarian practices and, in the process, exercised their political agency. More specifically, by analyzing student protests against ethnonationalism in the first instance, and against neoliberalism in the second, the chapter explores the values students endorsed and the actions they took to promote change, as well as how the public – both within and outside the university environment – responded to their political activism in a context that negates their right to think, speak, and act politically.
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- Baca, Bojan, 1984
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Enacting Resistance, Performing Citizenship: Trajectories of Political Subjectification in the Post-Democratic Condition
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 57:1, s. 175-193
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Dominated by the "weak postsocialist civil society" thesis, Central and Eastern Europe has generally been uninspiring for social movement scholars. In recent years, a growing body of scholarship has challenged this pessimistic notion, highlighting the emergence of grassroots activism. What remains under-researched, however, is the process of political subjectification of society's apolitical segments through contentious practices. Informed by pragmatic sociology, this article explores three case studies – of student, civic and environmental movements, respectively – that demonstrate how citizens constituted themselves as collective political subjects by performatively enacting their citizenship through resistance in post-democratic Montenegro (2010–2015). Through analysis of news media sources and interviews with activists, this article postulates three trajectories of political subjectification – political becoming, political bonding and political embodying – by which citizens (re)gain their civic autonomy, allowing them to challenge dominant power relations and to attain political legitimacy to think, speak and act as relevant political actors on the public stage.
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- Baca, Bojan, 1984
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Forging Civic Bonds "From Below": Montenegrin Activist Youth between Ethnonational Disidentification and Political Subjectivation
- 2018
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Ingår i: Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe: Beyond Ethnicity. - London : Routledge. - 9781138086364 ; , s. 127-147
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter investigates a group of young activists – #Građanski – who temporarily transcended the prevailing ethnopolitical constraints on mobilization and collective action in Montenegro. They momentarily forged civic bonds between hitherto divided and antagonized members of the Montenegrin political community, advocating the defence of universal civil liberties and political rights. Drawing on interviews with 15 members of #Građanski, as well as their written material, this chapter explores the reasons behind their decision to confront dominant ethnopolitical frames, and their conceptualization of civicness as the basis of involvement in popular politics.
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- Baca, Bojan, 1984
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Practice Theory and Postsocialist Civil Society: Toward a New Analytical Framework
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Political Sociology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1749-5679 .- 1749-5687. ; 16:1, s. 1-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When discussing postsocialist civil societies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), scholars have predominantly focused on the nonparticipatory and advocacy-oriented activities of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), effectively narrowing the concept of "civil society" to that of the "civic sector". This actor-focused and normative approach has resulted in a systematic obfuscation of less structured forms of everyday resistance, civic engagement, active citizenship, contentious politics, and social movements, giving only a partial view of civil societies in the region. Through a critical dialogue between state-of-the-art research on postsocialist civil society and the practice turn in international political sociology (IPS), this article postulates an analytical distinction between contentious and compliant practices in order to arrive at a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the ways in which postsocialist civil societies are manifested, enacted, and actualized. On the one hand, the proposed practice turn moves the research agenda away from abstract, universalist, and normative assumptions of what civil society should be in favor of an embedded, contextual, and critical understanding of what it actually is; on the other hand, this shift opens venues for theorizing not only about, but also from the "postsocialist condition" of civil societies in the transnational space of CEE.
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QAnon and the Epistemic Communities of the Unreal: A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Grassroots Conspiracism
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Ingår i: THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY. - 0263-2764 .- 1460-3616.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The messy politics of combating the COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by the confusion caused by the global (dis)infodemic, have propelled conspiracism from the fringes of society into the public mainstream. Despite the growing political impact of digitally enabled conspiracy theories, they are predominantly delegitimized on three fronts - as psychopathology, pseudoscience, and/or parapolitics. In contrast, this article employs three non-pathologizing conceptual counteroffers borrowed from critical theory, deconstructionist historiography, and citizenship studies - namely, cognitive mapping, narrative emplotment, and performative citizenship - to politicize conspiracy theorizing 'from below'. Using QAnon as a case-in-point, the article introduces two novel concepts that invite a sociological approach to conspiracism: first, the epistemic communities of the unreal, which designates the participatory, interactive, and decentralized nature of collaboratively creating unreal explanations of the real world; and second, grassroots conspiracism, which denotes the ways in which these bottom-up, horizontal, and collective meaning-making practices and knowledge-production processes are expanding spaces of and for politics.
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