Search

Your search keyword '"Mikuš, Marek"' showing total 12 results
Start Over Author "Mikuš, Marek" Search Limiters Full Text
12 results on '"Mikuš, Marek"'

1. What reform? : civil societies, state transformation and social antagonism in 'European Serbia'

Author

Mikuš, Marek

Subjects
320.94971, GN Anthropology, HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform, JN Political institutions (Europe)
Abstract

This thesis examines a set of intentional transformations of the government of society and individuals in the globalising (‘Europeanising’) and neoliberalising Serbia in 2010–11. It asks two closely related kinds of question about these ‘reforms’ – first, what reform is really there, of what depth, and second, whose reform is it, in and against whose interests? This inquiry strives to identify some of the dominant transformational tendencies and resistances to these, and to relate these governmental projects and their actual achievements to the conflicted interests and identities in Serbian society that undergoes profound restructuring in the context of a prolonged economic decline and political crisis. Based on ethnographic engagements with various kinds of nongovernmental organisations, social movements and public institutions, the reforms are traced at the interface of the ‘state’ and ‘civil society’ so as to examine how their mutual relations are being reimagined and boundaries redrawn. Civil society is conceptualised, building on anthropological and Gramscian approaches, as a set of ideas and practices that continually reconstitute and mediate the relationships of ‘state,’ ‘society’ and ‘economy,’ and which reproduce as well as challenge domination by consent – cultural and ideological hegemony. While a particular liberal understanding of civil society has become hegemonic in Serbia, in social reality there is a plurality of ‘civil societies’ – scenes of associational practice that articulate diverse visions of a legitimate social order and perceive each other as antagonists rather than parts of a single harmonious civil society. The discourses and practices of three such scenes – liberal, nationalist and post-Yugoslav – and their relationships to the perspectives and interests of various social groups are examined in order to identify some of the key moments of social antagonism about reform in contemporary Serbia.

Published
2013

2. Informal networks and interstitial arenas of power in the making of civil society law in Serbia

Author

Mikuš Marek

Subjects
civil society, democracy, informality, law, Serbia, the state, Sociology (General), HM401-1281
Abstract

This paper adopts an anthropological perspective on law to examine the social processes surrounding the making of a set of recent civil society laws in Serbia. In line with the dominant liberal assumptions about civil society involvement as a way of making policy- and law-making more representative and democratic, there has been significant civil society participation in these legal reforms. Their stated aim was to bring greater ‘efficiency’ and ‘transparency’ to the activities of civil society and its relationships with the state. They were a part of the greatly intensified law-making activity in Serbia that reflects an ideology of legalism linked to the global neoliberal turn to depoliticised ‘governance.’ My analysis reveals that these reforms contradicted their own objectives since they were consistently dominated by a small and relatively stable network of organisations and individuals connected by informal relationships. It also shows that, through their protracted domination over the making of civil society law, these actors created a new political arena in the interstices of the state and civil society in which they pursued their own political and ideological agendas. These findings challenge the assumptions about the relationship between civil society participation and democratisation as well as the ideology of legalism.

Published
2015
Full Text
View/download PDF

8. Transnacionálne sietě a diskurzy v participatívnej ochrane morských korytnačiek na Komorách

Author

Mikuš, Marek

Subjects
community centred conservation, ochrana zvířat, actor-network theory, aktér-síťová teorie, environmental narratives, mořské želvy, community Centred Conservation (C–3), actornetworks theory, environmental ”narratives”, Comoros, sea ​​turtles, environmentální narativy, environmental protection
Abstract

This work examines how participatory conservation projects of the NGO Community Centred Conservation (C–3) in the Comoros draw on global environmental ”narratives” and constitute transnational social fields and ”actor-networks”. In sustainable development and natural resource conservation, ”community-based” approaches, requiring participation of people living in and around protected areas and linking conservation objectives with local development needs, now take the centre stage. Policy shifts are critically conceptualised as a procession of narratives – discursive formations which facilitate explaining environmental change, decision-making and the replication of adopted modes of action across space and time. Narratives can only be superseded by similarly parsimonious and convincing ”counter-narratives” of which participatory conservation is an example. Implementation of such globalised and globalising policies is showed by an actor-oriented anthropology of development to be a socially constructed and negotiated process rather than straightforward execution of a plan of action with expected outcomes. The paper looks at the interactions between official representations and everyday ”strategies” of various participants, including local and expatriate actors. It evades the assumption that mobile conservation and development practitioners and local people and ”development agents” inhabit clearly separated instituti-onal and knowledge worlds. Ethnographic interpretation of C–3’s activities in Mohe´li inspired by the Actor Network Theory has identified some strategies and ”translations” between actors involved in these actor-network constructions. While C–3 attempts to control these constructions varying from conflict to co-operation, power relationships in these transnational actor-networks remain fairly open-ended.

Published
2009

11. Ověření logistického konceptu řízení zásob

Author

Sedláček, Martin, Hloska, Jiří, Mikuš, Marek, Sedláček, Martin, Hloska, Jiří, and Mikuš, Marek

Abstract

Obsahem této bakalářské práce je rešeršní rozbor vybraných logistických konceptů řízení zásob a vytvoření simulačního modelu logistického okruhu v rámci vnitropodnikové přepravy. Součástí rešeršní části je vysvětlení základních logistických pojmů, zhodnocení jednotlivých konceptů řízení zásob a uvedení způsobu jejich optimalizace. Simulační model je vytvořen v softwaru Plant Simulation od společnosti Siemens. Pomocí simulace různých variant nastavení parametrů modelu byly navrženy podmínky pro řízení ověřovaného logistického okruhu., The content of this bachelor thesis is a search analysis of selected logistics concepts of inventory management and the creation of a simulation model of the logistic circuit within the intra-company transport. Part of the research section is an explanation of basic logistic concepts, an evaluation of individual inventory management concepts and a description of how to optimize them. The simulation model is created in Siemens Plant Simulation software. By simulating different variants of model parameter settings, the conditions for controlling the verified logistic circuit were designed.

12. Ověření logistického konceptu řízení zásob

Author

Sedláček, Martin, Hloska, Jiří, Mikuš, Marek, Sedláček, Martin, Hloska, Jiří, and Mikuš, Marek

Abstract

Obsahem této bakalářské práce je rešeršní rozbor vybraných logistických konceptů řízení zásob a vytvoření simulačního modelu logistického okruhu v rámci vnitropodnikové přepravy. Součástí rešeršní části je vysvětlení základních logistických pojmů, zhodnocení jednotlivých konceptů řízení zásob a uvedení způsobu jejich optimalizace. Simulační model je vytvořen v softwaru Plant Simulation od společnosti Siemens. Pomocí simulace různých variant nastavení parametrů modelu byly navrženy podmínky pro řízení ověřovaného logistického okruhu., The content of this bachelor thesis is a search analysis of selected logistics concepts of inventory management and the creation of a simulation model of the logistic circuit within the intra-company transport. Part of the research section is an explanation of basic logistic concepts, an evaluation of individual inventory management concepts and a description of how to optimize them. The simulation model is created in Siemens Plant Simulation software. By simulating different variants of model parameter settings, the conditions for controlling the verified logistic circuit were designed.

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results