Repatriating Polanyi
Market Society in the Visegrad States
Published on 18. July 2019
Book
Hardback
388 pages
978-963-386-287-2 (ISBN)
Description
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".
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".
Reviews / Votes
"Zalozony cel Repatriating Polanyi zawiera sie w dwoch zasadniczych pytaniach, pierwsze brzmi: jakie swiatlo na powstanie i upadek socjalizmu i podobnych epokowych wydarzen w dziejach moze rzucic antropologia spoleczno-kulturowa? Jak stwierdza Chris Hann, rownie wazne jak uznanie jednosci, jak pisze, marksistowsko-leninowsko-maoistycznego socjalizmu jako cywilizacji (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist socialism as a civilization) jest dostrzezenie odmiennosci socjalistycznych doswiadczen, ktore podejmie sie zglebic na przykladzie Wegier i Polski. Drugie z wyjsciowych pytan brzmi: jaki wklad w rozwoj teorii nauk humanistycznych i spolecznych, w szczegolnosci antropologii spoleczno-kulturowej, moga wniesc badania socjalizmu i postsocjalizmu? Mozna wiec domniemywac, ze podjeta przez autora praca wypelnia istniejaca luke. " * Kultura i Spoleczenstwo *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
714 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-386-287-2 (9789633862872)
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07/2019
Central European University Press
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Person
Chris Hann is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Content
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