{"product_id":"frontiers-of-civil-society-government-and-hegemony-in-serbia-9781785338908","title":"Frontiers of Civil Society: Government and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn 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. \u003cem\u003eFrontiers of Civil Society\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Marek Mikuš’ book expands an important tradition of empirically-based critical research on one of the main ideational and institutional concepts of post-socialist transition: civil society.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“All in all,\u003c\/em\u003e Frontiers of Civil Society \u003cem\u003eis an empirically rich book which provides a wealth of theoretical arguments that will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines and fields… Apart for the more obvious audiences of the book, all scholars interested in Europeanisation processes should read this book as it provides an important critical account of the reforms pursued by the European integration agenda, which to date has received scant scholarly attention.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Southeastern Europe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“A significant contribution to a number of fields—postsocialist “transition” studies, the emerging forms of social organization in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, and debates about civil society. It is welcome on all those fronts, and contributes via a strong combination of very rich empirical work in Serbia and a commitment to theorizing the patterns, relations, and formations that the fieldwork reveals.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• John Clarke\u003c\/strong\u003e, The Open University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tNote on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Acronyms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: INTRODUCTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e What and Whose Reform? Civil Society and Serbia's Endless Transition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Historicizing ‘Civil Society’: Hegemonic Struggles and State Transformation after Tito\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: STRUGGLES OVER TRANSNATIONAL INTEGRATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Europeanization’ and the Liberal Civil Society\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Counterhegemonic Project of the Nationalist Civil Society\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: NEOLIBERALIZATION AT THE STATE-CIVIL SOCIETY FRONTIER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Rise of ‘Partnerships’ and the Politics of Transparency\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Welfare Restructuring and ‘Traditional’ Organizations of People with Disabilities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: LIBERAL CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE WIDER SOCIETY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Philanthropy Development: Indigenizing ‘Civil Society’, Reshaping the Public Realm\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Public Advocacy: Engaging Actually Existing Local Politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue:\u003c\/strong\u003e Civil Society and Hegemonic Re-alignments after Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042410561879,"sku":"9781785338908","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785338908.jpg?v=1750954066","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/frontiers-of-civil-society-government-and-hegemony-in-serbia-9781785338908","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}