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Democracy Struggles : NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia / Theodora Vetta.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dislocations ; 25Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789200997
  • 9781789201000
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.09 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Civil Society in the Making -- Chapter 1 – Empowerment, Fast-Track -- Chapter 2 – NGOingng and the Donor Effect -- PART II The Politics of Culture -- Chapter 3 – The “Democrats” Salon NGOs in Belgrade -- Chapter 4 – The “Nationalists” Radikali and Privatization -- PART III Good Governance -- Chapter 5 – Revitalizing Communities, Decentralizing the State -- Chapter 6 – NGO s vs. State Clash or Class? -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Summary: Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. Looking into the country’s “transition” through a global and relational analytical prism, the ethnography unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Civil Society in the Making -- Chapter 1 – Empowerment, Fast-Track -- Chapter 2 – NGOingng and the Donor Effect -- PART II The Politics of Culture -- Chapter 3 – The “Democrats” Salon NGOs in Belgrade -- Chapter 4 – The “Nationalists” Radikali and Privatization -- PART III Good Governance -- Chapter 5 – Revitalizing Communities, Decentralizing the State -- Chapter 6 – NGO s vs. State Clash or Class? -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

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Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. Looking into the country’s “transition” through a global and relational analytical prism, the ethnography unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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