Repatriating Polanyi

Market Society in the Visegrád States

Chris Hann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2019
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-386-287-2 (ISBN)

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Karl Polanyi’s “substantivist” critique of market society has found new popularity in the era of neoliberal globalization. The author reclaims this polymath for contemporary anthropology, especially economic anthropology, in the context of Central Europe, where Polanyi (1886–1964) grew up. The Polanyian approach illuminates both the communist era, in particular the “market socialist” economy which evolved under János Kádár in Hungary, as well as the post-communist transformations of property relations, civil society and ethno-national identities throughout the region.

Hann’s analyses are based primarily on his own ethnographic investigations in Hungary and South-East Poland. They are pertinent to the rise of neo-nationalism in those countries, which is theorized as a malign countermovement to the domination of the market. At another level, Hann’s adaptation of Polanyi’s social philosophy points beyond current political turbulence to an original concept of “social Eurasia”.

hris Hann is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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Preface: Forwards (n)ever!

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction: Karl Polanyi and the Transformations of Socialism and Postsocialism

Chapter 2. Market Principle, Marketplace and the Transition in Eastern Europe

Chapter 3. From Production to Property: Land Tenure and Citizenship in Rural Hungary

Chapter 4. A New Double Movement? Anthropological Perspectives on Property in the Age of Neoliberalism

Chapter 5. Awkward Classes in Rural Eurasia

Chapter 6. Civil Society at the Grassroots: A Reactionary View

Chapter 7. Socialism and King Stephen’s Right Hand

Chapter 8. Ethnicity in the New Civil Society: Lemko-Ukrainians in Poland

Chapter 9. Postsocialist Nationalism: Rediscovering the Past in Southeast Poland

Chapter 10. Polish Civil Society, the Greek Catholic Minority, and Fortress Europe

Chapter 11. The Visegrád Condition (Freedom and Slavery in the Neoliberal World)

Chapter 12. Conclusion: Building Social Eurasia

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Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	963-386-287-6 / 9633862876
ISBN-13	978-963-386-287-2 / 9789633862872
Zustand	Neuware