Repatriating Polanyi : : Market Society in the Visegrád States / / Chris Hann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hann, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.)

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”.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: Forwards (n)ever! -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Introduction: Karl Polanyi and the Transformations of Socialism and Postsocialism -- Chapter Two Market Principle, Marketplace and the Transition in Eastern Europe -- Chapter Three From Production to Property: Land Tenure and Citizenship in Rural Hungary -- Chapter Four A New Double Movement? Anthropological Perspectives on Property in the Age of Neoliberalism -- Chapter Five Awkward Classes in Rural Eurasia -- Chapter Six Civil Society at the Grassroots: A Reactionary View -- Chapter Seven Socialism and King Stephen’s Right Hand -- Chapter Eight Ethnicity in the New Civil Society: Lemko-Ukrainians in Poland -- Chapter Nine Postsocialist Nationalism: Rediscovering the Past in Southeast Poland -- Chapter Ten Polish Civil Society, the Greek Catholic Minority, and Fortress Europe -- Chapter Eleven The Visegrád Condition (Freedom and Slavery in the Neoliberal World) -- Chapter Twelve Conclusion: Building Social Eurasia -- References -- Index