Marek Mikus is a Research Fellow in the Financialization Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Lecturer at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. He has been previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the Comenius University in Bratislava and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz.

"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 theorising the patterns, relations and formations that the fieldwork reveals." - John Clarke, The Open University

• List of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1. Historicizing 'Civil Society': Hegemonic Struggles and State Transformation after TitoChapter 2. 'Europeanization' and the Liberal Civil SocietyChapter 3. The Counterhegemonic Project of the Nationalist Civil SocietyChapter 4. The Rise of 'Partnerships' and the Politics of TransparencyChapter 5. Welfare Restructuring and 'Traditional' Organizations of People with DisabilitiesChapter 6. Philanthropy Development: Indigenizing 'Civil Society', Reshaping the Public RealmChapter 7. Public Advocacy: Engaging Actually Existing Local PoliticsConclusionsEpilogueBibliographyIndex