Historicizing 'civil society' : hegemonic struggles and state transformation after Tito -- 'Europeanization' and the liberal civil society -- The counterhegemonic project of the nationalist civil society -- The rise of 'partnerships' and the politics of transparency -- Welfare restructuring and 'traditional' organizations of people with disabilities -- Philanthropy development : indigenizing 'civil society', reshaping the public realm -- Public advocacy: engaging actually existing local politics.
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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.