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.

Marek MikuS is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale), and at the Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin. He has previously been Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the Comenius University in Bratislava, and a Lecturer at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg.

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.

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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

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