Publications of Marek Mikuš

Mikuš, Marek and Irene Sabaté Muriel. 2025. Managing problem dept in Europe: introduction to the theme section. Focaal 2025(101): 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2025.1010101.

Mikuš, Marek. 2024. Veliki i Mali: Uvođenje eura i nacionalna valuta u Hrvatskoj. Etnološka Tribina 54(47): 195–210. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15378/1848-9540.2024.47.06 .

Mikuš, Marek. 2024. Tracking mortgage pathways in Zagreb: everyday economics of debt, housing wealth, and debtors' agency in a European semiperiphery. Current Anthropology 65(4): 701–723. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/731252.

Bobek, Alicja, Marek Mikuš, and Martin Sokol. 2023. Making sense of the financialization of households: state of the art and beyond. Socio-Economic Review 21(4): 2233–2258. DOI: https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad029.

Gagyi, Agnes and Marek Mikuš. 2023. Introduction: boom, crisis and politics of Swiss franc mortgages in Eastern Europe; comparing trajectories of dependent financialization of housing. City 27(3-4): 560–578. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2023.2229695.

Rodik, Petra and Marek Mikuš. 2023. Moral economies of housing in post-boom Croatia: Swiss franc loans crisis and politics of housing financialization. City 27(3-4): 579–598. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2023.2229196.

Mikuš, Marek. 2022. Whither peripheral financialisation? Housing finance in Croatia since the global financial crisis. Critical Housing Analysis 9(1): 57–67. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2022.9.1.541.

Mikuš, Marek. 2022. 'New' but 'squeezed': middle class and mortgaged homeownership in Croatia. Critique of Anthropology 42(4): 439–456. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X221139159.

Mikuš, Marek. 2022. Layered crises and rhythms of household debt and the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 147(1): 131–135.

Mikuš, Marek and Agnes Gagyi. 2022. Housing finance in the aftermath of the foreign-currency mortgage crisis in Eastern Europe: editorial. Critical Housing Analysis 9(1): 39–47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2022.9.1.539.

Mikuš, Marek. 2019. Contesting household debt in Croatia: the double movement of financialization and the fetishism of money in Eastern European peripheries. Dialectical Anthropology 43(3): 295–315. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-019-09551-8.

Mikuš, Marek. 2018. Between recognition and redistribution: disability, (human) rights, and struggles over welfare in Serbia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(2): 293–312. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12811.

Crehan, Kate and Marek Mikuš. 2018. Gramsci, Ethnography, and "Class". Anthropology News 59(5): e251–e254. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/an.996.

Mikuš, Marek. 2016. The justice of neoliberalism: moral ideology and redistributive politics of public-sector retrenchment in Serbia. Social Anthropology 24(2): 211–227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12267.

Mikuš, Marek and Goran Dokić. 2016. "Nobody's stronger than the state": crisis and hope among Serbian NGO workers and veterans. Ethnologia Balkanica 18: 385–403.

Mikuš, Marek. 2015. Informal networks and interstitial arenas of power in the making of civil society law in Serbia. Sociologija 57(4): 571–592. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC1504571M.

Mikuš, Marek. 2015. Indigenizing 'civil society' in Serbia: what local fund-raising reveals about class and trust. Focaal 2015(71): 43–56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2015.710105.

Mikuš, Marek. 2011. “State pride”: politics of LGBT rights and democratisation in “european Serbia.” East European Politics and Societies 25(4): 843–851. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325411426886 .

Mikuš, Marek. 2009. Naprieč hranicami, mimo autentického a falošného: transnacionálna antropológia, turizmus a identita. Sociální Studia 5(4): 193–216.

Mikuš, Marek. 2008. Diskurzívna (de)konštrukcia kolektívnej identity: súperiace obrazy ‘Rómov.’ Český Lid 95(3): 251–272.

Mikuš, Marek. 2024. Predatorski prekogranični krediti austrijskih lokalnih banaka u Hrvatskoj: ishodi, geografska distribucija i vjerovničke strategije. In: Josip Bratulić and Krešimir Dabo (eds.). Zbornik radova: Kontinentalna Hrvatska; povijesni kontekst, aktualnosti i perspektive u budućnosti (2). Zbornik radova: Kontinentalna Hrvatska; povijesni kontekst, aktualnosti i perspektive u budućnosti. Zagreb: Kont; Institut za istraživanje migracija, pp. 748–764.

Mikuš, Marek. 2022. Victims, patriots and middle class: the (un)deservingness of debtors in post-credit boom Croatia. In: Jelena Tošić and Andreas Streinzer (eds.). Ethnographies of deservingness: unpacking ideologies of distribution and inequality. EASA Series 45. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 385–412.

Mikuš, Marek. 2021. The anthropology of financialization in Eastern Europe. In: Mark S. Aldenderfer (ed.). Oxford research encyclopedia of anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mikuš, Marek and Petra Rodik . 2021. Introduction: households and peripheral financialization in Eastern and Southern Europe. In: Marek Mikuš and Petra Rodik (eds.). Households and financialization in Europe: mapping variegated patterns in semi-peripheries. RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 1–34.

Mikuš, Marek. 2020. Making debt work: devising and debating debt collection in Croatia. In: Chris Hann and Don Kalb (eds.). Financialization: relational approaches. Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 6. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 241–265.

Mikuš, Marek. 2015. ‘Faggots won’t walk through the city’: religious nationalism and LGBT pride parades in Serbia. In: Srdjan Sremac and Reinder Ruard Ganzevoort (eds.). Religious and sexual nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe: gods, gays and governments. Religion and the Social Order 26. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 15–32.

Mikuš, Marek. 2015. Civil society and EU integration of Serbia: toward a historical anthropology of globalizing post-socialist Europe. In: Hana Červinková, Michal Buchowski, and Zdenek Uherek (eds.). Rethinking ethnography in Central Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 147–171.

Mikuš, Marek. 2020. Financialization of the state in Croatia: findings of an interview-based case study. GEOFIN Working Papers 9. Dublin: GEOFIN research.

Mikuš, Marek. 2019. Financialization of the state in postsocialist East-Central Europe: conceptualization and operationalization. GEOFIN Working Papers 3. Dublin: GEOFIN research.

Mikuš, Marek. 2019. Financialization of the state in postsocialist East-Central Europe: analysis of secondary quantitative data. GEOFIN Working Papers 4. Dublin: GEOFIN research.

Mikuš, Marek. 2019. Financialization of the state in Croatia: a preliminary analysis. GEOFIN Working Papers 5. Dublin: GEOFIN research.

Mikuš, Marek. 2017. Public advocacy in Serbia: translating democratisation in a double semiperiphery. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 180. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Mikuš, Marek. 2013. ‘European Serbia’ and its ‘civil’ discontents: beyond liberal narratives of modernisation. Working Papers Series (Centre for Southeast European Studies) 7. Graz: Centre for Southeast European Studies.

Mikuš, Marek. 2011. Civil-society building, 'advanced liberal' governmentality and the state in Serbia. QEH Working Paper Series 190. Oxford: University of Oxford.

Mikuš, Marek, Annika Lems, and Carolin Görzig (eds.). 2020. Report 2017-2019: Emmy Noether Research Group 'Peripheral Debt'; Max Planck Research Group 'Alpine Historiesof Global Change'; Max Planck Research Group 'How ‘Terrorists’ Learn'. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report 2017-2019. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Gagyi, Agnes and Marek Mikuš (eds.). 2022. Housing finance in the aftermath of the foreign-currency mortgage crisis in Eastern Europe. Critical Housing Analysis 9(1).

Mikuš, Marek. 2019. Financialisation of states: secondary statistical data. Database Series 1. GEOFIN. https://geofinresearch.eu/wp-content/uploads/GEOFIN-Database-1-Marek-Mikus.xls.

Mikuš, Marek. 2009. Transnacionálne siete a diskurzy v participatívnej ochrane morských korytnačiek na Komorách. AntropoWeb. http://www.antropoweb.cz/cs/transnacionalne-siete-a-diskurzy-v-participativnej-ochrane-morskych-korytnaciek-na-komorach.

Mikuš, Marek. 2016. Ulazak podzemlja u visoku politiku. Le Monde Diplomatique: Hrvatsko Izdanje, December 2016: 20.

Mikuš, Marek. 2021. Dark finance: illiquidity and authoritarianism at the margins of Europe, by Fabio Mattioli, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2020, 248 pp. Journal of Cultural Economy 14(2): 266–269. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2020.1840419.

Mikuš, Marek. 2020. Globalization, EU democracy assistance and the World Social Forum: concepts and practices of democracy. Micha Fiedlschuster. 2018. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 307 pages. Journal of World-Systems Research 26(1): 129–132. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/JWSR.2020.991.

Mikuš, Marek. 2017. Bojan Bilić (2016) (ed.) LGBT activism and Europeanisation in the post-Yugoslav space: on the rainbow way to Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 256 p. Intersections 3(2): 88–92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v3i2.375.

Mikuš, Marek. 2017. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň, Tomáš Profant a kol.: Mimo Sever a Jih. Rozumět globálním nerovnostem a rozmanitostem. Praha, Ústav mezinárodníh vztahů 2015, 328 p. Sociologický Časopis 53(5): 790–792.

Mikuš, Marek. 2016. McFall, Liz. 2015. Devising consumption: cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending. London: Routledge. 203 pp. Hb.: US$119.48. ISBN: 978-0-415-69439-1. Social Anthropology 24(4): 537–538. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12339.

Mikuš, Marek and Petra Rodik (eds.). 2021. Households and financialization in Europe: mapping variegated patterns in semi-peripheries. RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. London; New York: Routledge.

Mikuš, Marek. 2018. Frontiers of civil society: government and hegemony in Serbia. Dislocations 22. New York; Oxford: Berghahn.

Mikuš, Marek. 2020. Slovakia's 'success story' from the perspective of debt and wealth. Emmy Noether Group Blog. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-029E-F.

Mikuš, Marek. 2017. Slovak Spring? Not really, though the weather is changing. Left East. http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/slovak-spring-not-really-though-the-weather-is-changing/.

Mikuš, Marek. 2024. Tracking mortgage pathways in Zaghreb: everyday economics of debt, housing wealth and debtors agency in a European semi-periphery. Interview by Jovan Maud. Talk On. Halle/Saale: Max-Planck-Institut for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/en/podcasts/talk-on/marek-mikus/tracking-mortgage-pathways-in-zagreb-everyday-economics-of-debt.