States Shaping Civic Activism: Comparing Animal Rights Activism in Poland and Russia

This article offers a comparative study of animal rights and animal welfare activism in Poland and Russia. It investigates how an East European democratic state, on the one hand, and a post-Soviet semiauthoritarian state, on the other hand, steer civic activism and how different state-society relati...

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Published in:Sociological quarterly 2017-04, Vol.58 (2), p.182-201
Main Authors: Fröhlich, Christian, Jacobsson, Kerstin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Animal human relations
Animal rights
Animal rights movement
Animal welfare
Animals
Animals and society
Civil rights
collective behavior and social movements
Comparative analysis
Comparative studies
Poland
political sociology
Postcommunist societies
Radicalism
Russia
social movements
Sociologi
Sociology
State-society relations
Welfare
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Summary:This article offers a comparative study of animal rights and animal welfare activism in Poland and Russia. It investigates how an East European democratic state, on the one hand, and a post-Soviet semiauthoritarian state, on the other hand, steer civic activism and how different state-society relationships affect the forms that activism takes. The analysis aims at identifying the specific institutional mechanisms by which steering operates in the two cases, thus explaining some notable similarities between the movements in the two countries, such as the focus on noncontentious animal welfare issues, but also the differences between them. Although facing a more repressive context, the contentious radical flank of the Russian movement is more active than the Polish one.
ISSN:0038-0253
1533-8525
DOI:10.1080/00380253.2017.1296338