Repatriating Polanyi : market society in the Visegrád states

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Repatriating Polanyi : market society in the Visegrád states

Chris Hann

Central European University Press, 2019

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-357) and index

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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 Janos Kadar 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".

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List of Illustrations Preface: Forwards (n)ever! Note 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 Visegrad Condition (Freedom and Slavery in the Neoliberal World) Chapter 12 Conclusion: Building Social Eurasia References Index

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