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Frontiers of Civil Society : Government and Hegemony in Serbia / Marek Mikuš.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dislocations ; 22Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785338908
  • 9781785338915
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 949.71032
LOC classification:
  • JN9656
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Acronyms -- Part I. Introductions -- Introduction. What and Whose Reform? Civil Society and Serbia’s Endless Transition -- Chapter 1. Historicizing ‘Civil Society’: Hegemonic Struggles and State Transformation after Tito -- Part II. Struggles over Transnational Integration -- Chapter 2. ‘Europeanization’ and the Liberal Civil Society -- Chapter 3. The Counterhegemonic Project of the Nationalist Civil Society -- Part III. Neoliberalization at the State–Civil Society Frontier -- Chapter 4. The Rise of ‘Partnerships’ and the Politics of Transparency -- Chapter 5. Welfare Restructuring and ‘Traditional’ Organizations of People with Disabilities -- Part IV. Liberal Civil Society and the Wider Society -- Chapter 6. Philanthropy Development: Indigenizing ‘Civil Society’, Reshaping the Public Realm -- Chapter 7. Public Advocacy: Engaging Actually Existing Local Politics -- Conclusions -- Epilogue. Civil Society and Hegemonic Re-alignments after Crisis -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In Serbia, as elsewhere in postsocialist Europe, the rise of “civil society” was expected to support a smooth transformation to Western models of liberal democracy and capitalism. More than twenty years after the Yugoslav wars, these expectations appear largely unmet. Frontiers of Civil Society asks why, exploring the roles of multiple civil society forces in a set of government “reforms” of society and individuals in the early 2010s, and examining them in the broader context of social struggles over neoliberal restructuring and transnational integration.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Acronyms -- Part I. Introductions -- Introduction. What and Whose Reform? Civil Society and Serbia’s Endless Transition -- Chapter 1. Historicizing ‘Civil Society’: Hegemonic Struggles and State Transformation after Tito -- Part II. Struggles over Transnational Integration -- Chapter 2. ‘Europeanization’ and the Liberal Civil Society -- Chapter 3. The Counterhegemonic Project of the Nationalist Civil Society -- Part III. Neoliberalization at the State–Civil Society Frontier -- Chapter 4. The Rise of ‘Partnerships’ and the Politics of Transparency -- Chapter 5. Welfare Restructuring and ‘Traditional’ Organizations of People with Disabilities -- Part IV. Liberal Civil Society and the Wider Society -- Chapter 6. Philanthropy Development: Indigenizing ‘Civil Society’, Reshaping the Public Realm -- Chapter 7. Public Advocacy: Engaging Actually Existing Local Politics -- Conclusions -- Epilogue. Civil Society and Hegemonic Re-alignments after Crisis -- Bibliography -- Index

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In Serbia, as elsewhere in postsocialist Europe, the rise of “civil society” was expected to support a smooth transformation to Western models of liberal democracy and capitalism. More than twenty years after the Yugoslav wars, these expectations appear largely unmet. Frontiers of Civil Society asks why, exploring the roles of multiple civil society forces in a set of government “reforms” of society and individuals in the early 2010s, and examining them in the broader context of social struggles over neoliberal restructuring and transnational integration.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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