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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.
List of 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
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
