Frontiers of Civil Society

Marek Mikuš 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.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationList of AcronymsPART I: INTRODUCTIONSIntroduction: What and Whose Reform? Civil Society and Serbia's Endless TransitionChapter 1. Historicizing ‘Civil Society’: Hegemonic Struggles and State Transformation after TitoPART II: STRUGGLES OVER TRANSNATIONAL INTEGRATIONChapter 2. ‘Europeanization’ and the Liberal Civil SocietyChapter 3. The Counterhegemonic Project of the Nationalist Civil SocietyPART III: NEOLIBERALIZATION AT THE STATE-CIVIL SOCIETY FRONTIERChapter 4. The Rise of ‘Partnerships’ and the Politics of TransparencyChapter 5. Welfare Restructuring and ‘Traditional’ Organizations of People with DisabilitiesPART IV: LIBERAL CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE WIDER SOCIETYChapter 6. Philanthropy Development: Indigenizing ‘Civil Society’, Reshaping the Public RealmChapter 7. Public Advocacy: Engaging Actually Existing Local PoliticsConclusionsEpilogue: Civil Society and Hegemonic Re-alignments after CrisisBibliographyIndex

“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.” • Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe“All in all, Frontiers of Civil Society is 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.” • Southeastern Europe“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.” • John Clarke, The Open University