Suchergebnisse

1.Social movements in Eastern Europe: problems of understanding non-Western contexts -- 2.External integration as internal force: middle class politics and the "politics of backwardness" in Eastern Europe -- 3.Crisis, regime change, movement: comparing mobilization cycles in Hungarian and Romanian constellations of global integration after 1973 and 2008 -- 4.Long-term middle class politics and contemporary new left initiatives in Hungary and Romania.

The article follows changes in the paradigms and institutional context of Hungarian sociology of social structure, as formed by Hungary's double dependence on Soviet and Western cores throughout the second part of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that as a result of those changes, the concept of class has been absent from the sociology of social structure from the early 1970s on. Thinking towards a possible reconstruction of twentieth-century Hungarian social formation in a class-sensitive perspective embedded in the dynamics of the capitalist world system, we point at a typical effect of global hierarchies on the description of local social structure: the tendency to identify a "double structure" in local society. This gesture places various characteristics of local society on two different ontological levels—for example, Western versus Eastern, future versus past. We argue that in order to conceive of local social formation as part of an integrated global history, this internalized effect of global hierarchies needs to be transcended.

Kína megnövekedett globális szerepe Magyarország világgazdasági integrá- cióját is érinti. A cikkben ezt a kapcsolatot a második világháború utáni glo- bális gazdasági ciklus 1970-es évektől elinduló válságfolyamata felől tekintjük át. A tanulmány első részében rámutatunk, hogy a magyar szocialista külgaz- dasági integráció válsága, a nyugati tőkének alárendelt posztszocialista gaz- dasági modell, majd az EU-s transzfereken túl a 2010-es évek német műkö- dőtőkére, keleti hitelekre és államilag támogatott belföldi vállalkozásfejlesztésre építő rezsimje hogyan kapcsolódott ahhoz a világgazdasági átalakuláshoz, amiben Kína újraiparosodása, majd 2010-es évektől felerősödő tőkekihelye- zése kulcsfontosságú szerepet játszott. A tanulmány második részében a magyar gazdaságfejlesztés 2020-as évekre felerősödő, újraiparosodásra fókuszáló modelljét - mint a magyar külgazdasági beágyazódásra hosszú távon jellemző geoökonómiai híd-funkció új formáját - elemezzük a kínai ipar felzárkózása nyomán elinduló technológia-export és az erre reagáló nyugati protekcionista iparpolitikák kontextusában.

Our paper aims to contribute to the understanding of civil society in Hungary by looking beyond the struggles around open society and international NGOs, a topic that has dominated public debates on civil organizations in Hungary for the last decade. Our starting point follows the literature that has broadened the understanding of NGOs in the post-socialist space with the perspective of their insertion in global hierarchies in terms of unequal knowledge and resource transfer, material dependencies and the effects in local social settings. More attention recently has been given to the social positions of domestic civil organizations and the political and material dependencies they operate within. The analysis of organizations which represent and defend different interests within different social strata is crucial to understanding civil society in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Following this thread of discussions, we look at three segments of civil society which were previously understudied, to expand on how social relations structure civil society in contemporary CEE: 1) nationalist but anti-governmental organizations, for example in the field of housing; 2) urban and rural informal self-organization in order to cope with material hardships collectively has been significantly growing in the recent years; 3) rural civil organizations aligned with local elites, embedded in material dependencies, which have been present since 1990, but occupy a more and more significant role after the illiberal turn. We think that adding these segments to the study of civil society in CEE can help to broaden the analysis beyond the discursively and ideologically thematized struggles around NGOs, and contribute to a better understanding of illiberal regimes and the counter-movements they produce.

1. Introduction. Embedding the Analysis of Housing Contention in the Sociopolitical Complexity of Structural Crises -- 2. The Structural Field of Contention Approach -- 3. The Structural Background of Housing Contention in Bucharest and Budapest -- 4. Housing Contention in Budapest -- 5. Housing Contention in Bucharest -- 6. Structural Fields of Contention in Housing Struggles. Comparative Lessons -- 7. Conclusion.

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