Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE MAKING
Chapter 1. Empowerment, Fast-Track
Chapter 2. NGOing 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. NGOs vs. State: Clash or Class?
Conclusion
References
Index
