Prof. Kerstin Jacobsson

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Welcome!

The first social science articles about the animal advocacy / rights movement in a CEE country cunstitute the starting point for a planned FEWD workshop at University of Vienna. Written are these pioneering publications by one of the leading Scandinavian sociologists, Prof. Kerstin Jacobsson.

So please start with the very interesting abstracts / introductions of:
 Jacobsson, Kerstin 2012. Fragmentation of the collective action space: The animal rights movement in Poland. East European Politics 28 (4): 353-370.

Jacobsson, Kerstin 2013. Channeling and enrollment: The institutional shaping of animal rights activism in Poland. In: Jacobsson, Kerstin / Saxonberg, Steven (ed.) Beyond NGO-ization? The development of social movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Farnham, Ashgate: 1-35

Fröhlich, C., & Jacobsson, K. (2017). States Shaping Civic Activism: Comparing Animal Rights Activism in Poland and Russia. The Sociological Quarterly, 58(2): 182–201.

 Additionally important to mention is that Prof. Jacobsson edited with E. Korolczuk 2017 the book Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/JacobssonCivil

See also

Lindblom, Jonas / Jacobsson, Kerstin 2014. A Deviance Perspective on Social Movements: The Case of Animal Rights Activism. Deviant Behavior 35 (2): 133-151.

Jacobsson, Kerstin / Lindblom, Jonas 2013. Emotion work in animal rights activism: A moral-sociological perspective. Acta Sociologica 56 (1): 55-68.

Jacobsson, Kerstin / Lindblom, Jonas 2012. Moral Reflexivity and Dramaturgical Action in Social Movement Activism: The Case of the Plowshares and Animal Rights Sweden. Social Movement Studies 11 (1): 41-60.