Publication details
Do-It-Yourself Activism in Central Eastern Europe: The Case of the Hardcore Scene in the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | According to available studies, the level of popular participation is relatively low in Central Eastern Europe. Citizens in East European countries display a low level of organizational membership in voluntary organizations such as churches, sports and recreational clubs, educational and cultural organizations, labor unions, charity organizations or political parties and movements. The analysis of citizens participation in Central Eastern Europe, however, is primarily focused on organized activities. Informal and more diffused ways of collective action presently developing in the region fall out of the picture in the available research. In response to this, our conference paper concentrates exactly on these loosely organized forms of participation that are commonly associated with do-it-yourself (DIY) activism. More specifically, the paper focuses on some manifestations of DIY in the hardcore scene in the Czech Republic. |