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Relying on ethnographic material from the city of Przemysl, the paper claims that a certain type of populism in south-east Poland is a result of the interdependency of religion and politics. It is based on particular features of the post-socialist social structure, practices, relations and ideologies; which the author provisionally calls post-peasantism. The author argues that it is religion that supervises the nation in south-east Poland and is able to offer an alternative ideology - as a fertile basis for populist mobilization - to currently dominant policies and discourses of capitalist modernity. Adapted from the source document.

Jednym ze zjawisk, ciągle obecnych, w transformującej się post-komunistycznej Europie jest mobilizacja polityczna przez populizm. Wyrażający się w formie organicznego nacjonalizmu i/lub politycznej demagogii, populizm ma zniknąć wraz z pojawieniem się gospodarki rynkowej i zachodniej demokracji. Artykuł ma udowodnić, że tak się dzieje. Populizm pozostanie istotną siłą polityczną w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, ponieważ niektóre czynniki wpływające na jego pojawianie się są wciąż żywe. Celem artykułu nie jest jednak wszechstronna analiza tego fenomenu, lecz skupienie się na powiązaniach populizmu z religią. Główna teza zakłada, że wybrane aspekty strukturalne, ideologiczne i narracyjne religii nakładają się z elementami retoryki populistycznej. Skupiając się na przykładzie Słowacji i częściowo Polski autor stara się udowodnić, iż jest to rezultat ważnej ciągłości społecznej reprodukcji religii i populizmu. Jest to skutkiem specyficznego przeplatania się religii i chłopskiego rodowodu narodów Europy Wschodniej oraz komunistycznej modernizacji i tego jak wpływa ona na region dzisiaj. Do sukcesu populizmu przyczynia się także brak poczucia bezpieczeństwa i stabilności. Zawsze jednak, na prawie każdym etapie transformacji, populizm mobilizuje i jest mobilizowany przez wybrane elementy religii.

This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann's lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, Turkey, and the Chinese north-west.

The collapse of the Berlin Wall naturally triggered a plethora of analysis and scholarly research. Sociocultural anthropology, with its focus on ethnographic study and on the gradual evolution of social relations, sharply contrasted with the emphasis on dramatic rupture brought about by the 1989 transition.

Continuing in this tradition, this volume, through micro-level analysis of societal transformation from the post-war years to the present day, provides an alternative perspective to the neoliberalist views often encountered in the scholarship on political and economic modernisation. The more nuanced analysis of social transformations proposed here is a particularly useful tool in the investigation of contemporary issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee 'crisis', and the rise of right-wing populism in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

Anthropology of Transformation will be of interest to researchers in the fields of socio-cultural anthropology, religion and economics. Moreover, the book's discussion of issues widely discussed beyond the field of academia such as neoliberalism and the welfare state, and populist and exclusionary politics, will appeal to non-specialist readers.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Preface -- Jerzy Kochanowski / Claudia Kraft: Introduction: "Rooms for Manoeuvre" - a New Paradigm for the Research of State Socialist Societies -- Contributions of the volume -- Socialist Space-Time -- Peripheries -- Privacy in State Socialism -- (Negotiated) Transnational Rooms -- Literature -- Part I: Socialist Space-Time -- Maria Hetzer: Negotiating Economic Development and Everyday Needs in Rural GDR and Beyond -- Introduction: Concepts and context -- A society of negotiations -- Golzow: The case study -- Room for Manoeuvre: Showcasing successful socialist agriculture -- Room for Manoeuvre: Gender policies and economic considerations -- Room for Manoeuvre after 1989: Venturing into Tekucha, Ukraine -- Conclusion -- Archives and Sources -- Literature -- Martin Jemelka: The Unified Cooperative Farm - Agrocombine Sluovice: Genesis, Tradition, Interpretation -- Introduction -- The Genesis of the Sluovice Miracle -- Zlín and Sluovice, Bat'a and Čuba: (Dis)‍continued History -- Autonomy, Autarky and Authority: An Attempt to Interpret the Sluovice Miracle -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Juraj Buzalka: Room to Manoeuvre under State Socialism and the Memory of Livelihood -- Economy and memory -- Progress beyond ideology -- State socialist steel makers -- Red count's socialist flat -- Value of the house -- Natural entrepreneur -- Peasant or ethnic memories -- Post-socialist house economy -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Part II: Peripheries -- Duan Sege: A Failed "Marriage": The Attitude of the Peasants and the Government Toward the First Stage of Collectivisation in the Preov Region (1949-1953) -- Preov Region - Social and Cultural Specificity -- Socialist Collectivisation in Czechoslovakia and Disobedience Strategies -- Human Resources -- Archives and Sources -- Literature.

Thinking through Transition is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-communism can be understood as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy (as well as the older political traditions), and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance. This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular