TY - BOOK AU - Vetta,Theodora TI - Democracy Struggles: NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia T2 - Dislocations SN - 9781789200997 U1 - 306.09 22 PY - 2018///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Democratization KW - Serbia KW - Non-governmental organizations KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh KW - Aid KW - Associational Revolution KW - Democracy Promotion KW - NGOs KW - Non-Governmental Organizations KW - Post-Communist N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789201000?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789201000 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789201000/original ER -