Indigenizing "civil society" in Serbia What local fund-raising reveals about class and trust
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2616331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marek Mikuš (0000-0001-5272-5183, Comenius University [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2015 |
| Issue | 71 |
| Pages | 43-56 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Focaal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/fcl.2015.710105 |
| OpenAlex | W2313272719 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
This article reconsiders established anthropological knowledge about postsocialist "civil society" through an analysis of recent efforts of Serbian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to reduce their dependence on foreign donors and develop "local fund-raising" from individuals and businesses. These initiatives had to address widespread suspicion toward NGOs, which confirms earlier findings about their donor-driven origins and the class divide between them and the surrounding society. Nevertheless, the article shows that the fund-raising activists strove to overcome suspicion and indigenize civil society. While anthropologists tend to portray NGO workers as a transnationalized elite, they are more adequately described as a middle-class faction currently subject to a process of precarization. The article also shows how the NGO workers' strategies to overcome suspicion, drawing variously on the global models of rational philanthropy, populist modes of self-presentation, or pre-existing ties to new donors, obscured or reduced the relevance of the class divide
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |