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Resourceful Civil Society: Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Civil Society Organizations
Tis volume grew out of the project Te Social Mechanisms of Creating Memberless Civil Society Organizations in Poland, Russia and Sweden, supported by the Swedish National Research Council. Te project ran from 2015 through 2019, bringing us into contact with numerous activists, community organizers, civil society professionals, experts, and policy advisors in Poland, Russia, and Sweden. We are deeply indebted to all of these individuals for opening their doors to us, sharing their vast knowledge and experiences, and helping us fnd new topics to pursue. Working on this anthology has been a collective process requiring dialogue and cooperation between the editors and the authors, as well as with a broad community of researchers. We are especially grateful to the authors who patiently worked with us long before the concept for this volume became fully developed. It was during our workshop in Stockholm in February 2019 that some of the key concepts were formulated, connections were established, and the book took shape. We gratefully acknowledge generous support from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation for that workshop. In developing the concept of this book, we have drawn on the ideas and research of scholars around us. We extend our thanks to colleagues who commented on earlier versions of some chapters, especially to Adrienne Sörbom from the Centre for the Study of Political Organisation (Södertörn University) and Stefan Einarsson, Torbjörn Einarsson, Marta Reuter, and Filip Wijkström from the Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies (Stockholm School of Economics). We have benefted greatly from discussions with the attendees of the International Workshop on Civil Society Research held at Södertörn University in October 2019 and was supported by the Swedish National Research Council. We are also grateful to Amari Barash, who copyedited all contributions in this volume, lending her expertise, insight, and attention to detail to the whole project. Transliteration from Russian is done according to a simplifed version of the Library of Congress (LOC) system, apart from internationally established words (e.g. Nevsky instead of Nevskii). All translations from Polish, Russian, and Swedish are authors’ unless otherwise indicated.