Kerstin Jacobsson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Jacobsson leads several research projects on social movements in Central and Eastern Europe and is the editor of Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (Ashgate, 2015, forthcoming) and co-editor (with Steven Saxonberg) of Beyond NGO-ization. The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (Ashgate, 2013).