WELCOME TO PAUL STUBBS' HOME PAGE!
I am a British (Liverpool) born sociologist living and working in Croatia since 1993. I am currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Economics, Zagreb
I am also an Associate of the Globalism and Social Policy Programme - on this page you can find a number of articles of mine to download.
I am also an Associate of the South East European Research Centre - which is located in Thessaloniki Greece
My current research interests include:
- International Actors and Social Policy in South-Eastern Europe (a book on this topic, co-edited by Bob Deacon, has been published by Edward Elgar in October 2007 - more details here)
- Transnational Governmentalities, Intermediaries and Translation in South Eastern Europe (joint work with Noemi Lendvai and a series of seminars funded by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Zagreb - read more about the Transnational Governmentality Workshops here)
- Social Policy Reform in Croatia (joint work with Siniša Zrinščak and others)
- Civil Society and Social Movements in Post-Yugoslav Countries
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting
- Innovation, Clusters, and Networking
- Community Development and Mobilization in Croatia
this wiki
On this wiki I am planning to make available more recent texts, works in progress, and details of workshops, conferences, etc which I am involved in.
Recent Texts
An article published in the Journal Southeast European Politics Online.
This is part of ongoing work looking conceptually and empirically at
transnational actors, particularly intermediaries and brokers, in South Eastern Europe
*The Za Mir (for peace)network: from transnational social movement to Croatian NGO?
This updates the story of Za Mir which I first wrote about in 1998. It continues my
interest in understanding computer-mediated activism. It has appeared online in a collection of texts from a conference in Sheffield in 2004. Some of the other papers are extremely interesting and can be downloaded from this site.
*'Civil Society or Ubleha?'
A new text of mine on the concept of civil society and its usage in the post-Yugoslav space. It has now appeared (in English and Serbian) in a collection of essays on Peacebuilding in the Region of the former Yugoslavia' published by the Centre for Non-Violent Action. On this web sitehttp://www.nenasilje.org/publikacije/pdf/20poticaja/20pieces-eng.pdf you can download the entire book!
*'Aspects of Community Development in Contemporary Croatia: globalisation, neo-liberalisation and NGO-isation'
Chapter on Croatia in a book (published by Ashgate in March 2007) edited by Lena Dominelli 'Revitalising Communities in a Globalising World'
*'Mobilizacija i razvoj zajednica' (Croatian language text) New book on Community development and Mobilisation in Croatia published by MAP Savjetovanja and edited by Marina Škrabalo, Nives Miošić-Lisjak and Jasmina Papa. The whole book is available on MAP's web pages. There are two chapters authored by myself.
This photo was taken at the Book Launch in Booksa left to right: Mia Papa Stubbs; Jasmina Papa; Dražen Lalić; Paul Stubbs; Tea Skokić; Luka Papa Stubbs; Marina Škrabalo
*Social Protection and Social Inclusion in Croatia This 2006 report by myself and colleagues at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb for The European Commission, Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities DG served as an independent background study for the drawing up of Croatia's Joint Inclusion Memorandum (JIM).
*Unplugged - faces of social exclusion in Croatia I am co-author (with Siniša Zrinščak) of Chapter 4 'Key Challenges' of UNDP's National Human Development Report for Croatia 2006 which has now been published (February 2007)
*Rethinking Computer mediated Anti-war activism. Extract from a new text - a reworking of some of my research on Za Mir appearing in a collection of essays in honour of Wolfgang Petritsch
*Towards a New Welfare Mix for the Most Vulnerable: Reforming Social Services in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia Vesna Bošnjak and Paul Stubbs - is included in a collection published by the Institute of Economics and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung on 'Social Policy and Regional Development' (2007).
- International Organizations and Child Care System Reform in South East Europe. This July 2007 report for UNICEF is now available on UNICEF's CEE/CIS website.
Myself and Bob Deacon at the book launch in Skopje 15 February 2008
- LendvaiStubbsPolicyTranslation.pdf Policies as Translation by Noemi Lendvai and Paul Stubbs in Hodgson and Irving (eds) Policy Reconsidered published in late 2007 by Policy Press *
RecentConferencePresentations
Here you can find copies of some of my recent and forthcoming conference papers.
Interview (H-alter 5 November 2006)
Here you can find an interview with me, in Croatian language, in the web magazine H-alter, primarily on the topic of the (lack of) meaning of the concept of 'civil society'.
Interview (Jutarnji list 11 August 2007)
Here is a new interview with me in Croatia's leading mass circulation daily newspaper. As you can see from some of the Forum comments, my attempt to discuss 'captured', 'active' and 'smart' social policy in Croatia did not go down well with everyone!
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