Frontiers of civil society: government and hegemony in Serbia
Author
Marek Mikuš
Publisher
New York, Oxford: Berghahn
Year of publication
2018
ISBN
978-1-78533-890-8
OPAC
Abstract
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.