Europe is often portrayed as a continent of "relative" poverty and social exclusion while extreme or "absolute" poverty is understood as a measure and reality of poor ("developing") countries only. This conference aims to question this dichotomy and we invite papers that contribute to an...

Third sector organisations in Central and Eastern European Countries reveal similar characteristics that simultaneously distinguish them from third sector organisations in other societies. These inward similarities and outward differences can be explained in the context of the state-socialist...