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CHAPTER 8 Civil Society and EU Integration of Serbia: Toward a Historical Anthropology of Globalizing Postsocialist Europe* Marek Miku š Introduction Few would dispute that the eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) has significantly transformed much of “(East) Central Europe.”1 However, the scope of anthropological inquiry into this process did not correspond to its practical significance. Moreover, what work there is examines the region’s integration mostly through the prism of identity, focusing on issues such as dynamics and interplay of local, national, and European identities (e.g., Bitu ší kov á 2002; Golanska-Ryan 2006; Hor á kov á 2009; Obad 2010; Straczuk 2012; Vidmar Horvat 2012).2 This idealist scholarship tends to study integration solely in terms of nesting or crosscutting meanings of identification and belonging, treat- ing these as if they existed in isolation from power relationships and systems of domination with which they are mutually constitutive. Such analyses also neglect politicoeconomic, institutional, and governmental forms and practices through which the integration process operates and which it engenders. We learn much about the semiotic histories of iden- tities (for instance, socialist or imperial) and their transformations and role in the present context of an attempted European identity construc- tion, but what seems inadequately addressed is the history of European integration itself—as a power-laden, evolving material and discursive practice with social causes and outcomes. Even if we focus on identity, H. Cervinkova et al. (eds.), Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe © Hana Cervinkova, Michal Buchowski, and Zdeněk Uherek 2015 148 ● Marek Mikuš this ne