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Book SynopsisThis open access book examines how civil society organizations in Poland, Russia, and Sweden (re)act to transformations of opportunities and limitations in access to various forms of resources. The volume’s contributions discuss the constraints associated with different types of resources as well as organizations’ capacities to generate resources—or compensate for their lack—as they negotiate and contest barriers. The resourcefulness of civil society is revealed to be rooted in a variety of capabilities: converting resources, eliciting organizational change, and metamorphosing in response to organizational and environmental development.
Table of Contents1. Introduction, Zhanna Kravchenko, Lisa Kings and Katarzyna Jezierska.- Part I. Resources as Constraints.- 2. Pecunia olet: The funding dilemma for think tanks in Poland, Katarzyna Jezierska.- 3. Domestic funding for civil society in a non-democratic context: The example of the Presidential Grants in Russia, Yulia Skokova and Christian Fröhlich.- 4.Polish human rights organizations: Resisting institutional pressures, Zhanna Kravchenko, Katarzyna Jezierska, Marta Gumkowska, Beata Charycka, and Magdalena Szafranek.- 5. . Rural community development in Sweden: From challenging to mainstream?, Anette Forsberg.- Part II. External Constraints and Facilitators of Resources- 6. From local to digital and back: E-resourcefulness among urban movements in Poland, Anna Domaradzka.-7. Between autonomy and compliance: The organizational development of Russian civil society, Vsevolod Bederson and Andrei Semenov.- 8. Navigating contemporary developments in Swedish civil society: The case of Save the Children Sweden, Lisa Kings.- 9. Humane resources? The people behind Polish civil society organizations, Galia Chimiak.- Part III. Organizations and Resources: Intertwined Transformations.- 10. Doing the right things or doing things right? Exploring the relationship between professional autonomy and resources in volunteering, Cecilia Gullberg and Noomi Weinryb.- 11. Liberty, loyalty, and solidarity. The role of transnational, national, and local resources in voluntary organizations in Russia, Zhanna Kravchenko.- 12. Resources shifting values: Online and offline resources in Swedish civil society, Håkan Johansson and Gabriella Scaramuzzino.-Chapter.- 13. St. Petersburg LGBTQI+ activists negotiating financial and symbolic resources, Pauliina Lukinmaa.-Chapter 14. Epilogue, Apostolis Papakostas
