Democracy Struggles

NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-12-17
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt507 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDislocations
Antal sidor240
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781789200997

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Theodora Vetta is European Research Council researcher at the University of Barcelona, and a member of PrecAnthro Union and FOCAAL’s editorial collective. She was formerly a Marie-Curie Fellow at CEU-Budapest and a Swedish-Institute fellow at Lund University. Her recent publications include “Moral Economy: Rethinking a Radical Concept” (Anthropological Theory, 2016) and "The Habits of the Heart: Grassroots 'Revitalization' and State Transformations in Serbia" in Cultures of Doing Good (University of Alabama Press, 2017).

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE MAKINGChapter 1. Empowerment, Fast-TrackChapter 2. NGOing and the Donor EffectPART II: THE POLITICS OF CULTUREChapter 3. The “Democrats”: Salon NGOs in BelgradeChapter 4. The “Nationalists”: Radikali and PrivatizationPART III: GOOD GOVERNANCEChapter 5. Revitalizing Communities, Decentralizing the StateChapter 6. NGOs vs. State: Clash or Class?ConclusionReferencesIndex

“Vetta’s book offers a refreshing and much-needed class-informed analysis of the NGO world in Serbia…The book provides essential class-informed analysis for anyone interested in the working of aid industry in the context of post-socialist transformations.” • ANUAC“This book oﬀers a rich, informative and critical analysis on a topic that has so far not received much attention. It opens up a number of new research avenues on the topic of aid, democratization, neoliberalism and recent political developments in the context of Serbia.” • Eurasian Geography and Economics