Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class

Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-203-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: EASA Series

Since 1989 neo-nationalism has grown as a volatile political force in almost all European societies in tandem with the formation of a neoliberal European Union and wider capitalist globalizations. Focusing on working classes situated in long-run localized processes of social change, including processes of dispossession and disenfranchisement, this volume investigates how the experiences, histories, and relationships of social class are a necessary ingredient for explaining the re-emergence and dynamics of populist nationalism in both Eastern and Western Europe. Featuring in-depth urban and regional case studies from Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Italy and Scotland this volume reclaims class for anthropological research and lays out a new interdisciplinary agenda for studying identity politics in the intensifying neoliberal conjuncture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalb, Don

Halmai, Gábor

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class:Working Class Populism and the return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe

Don Kalb

Chapter 1. ‘Nationalism is Back!’ Radikali and Privatization Processes in Serbia

Theodora Vetta

Chapter 2. Articulating the Right to the City: Working Class Neo-Nationalism in Postsocialist Cluf, Romania

Norbert Petrovici

Chapter 3. Football Fandom in Cluj: Class, Ethno-nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

Florin Faje

Chapter 4. “Because it Can’t Make Me Happy that Audi is Prospering”: Working Class Nationalism in Hungary after 1989

Eszter Bartha

Chapter 5. (Dis)possessed by the Spectre of Socialism. Nationalist Mobilization in “Transitional” Hungary

Gábor Halmai

Chapter 6. Working Class Nationalism in a Scottish Village

Paul Gilfillan

Chapter 7. Class without Consciousness: Regional Identity in Northern Italy in Late Modernity

Jaro Stacul

Chapter 8. Long March to Oblivion? The Decline of the Italian Left on Its Home Grounds and the Rise of the New Right in Their Midst

Michael Blim

Epilogue: From the Ashes of a Counter-Revolution

George Baca

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Kalb, Don
Don Kalb is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, and Senior Researcher at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His books include Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950 (Duke University Press 1997); The Ends of Globalization. Bringing Society back in, (ed., Rowman and Littlefield 2000); Globalization and Development: Key Issues and Debates (ed., Kluwer Academic 2004); Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn (ed., Berghahn Books 2005). He is the founding editor of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.

Halmai, Gábor
Gábor Halmai is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University in Budapest, finalizing a doctoral project that is a comparative investigation into two collective struggles against semi-peripheral “transitions,” namely the nationalist movement in Hungary and the socialist MST in Brazil.

Don Kalb is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, and Senior Researcher at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His books include Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950 (Duke University Press 1997); The Ends of Globalization. Bringing Society back in, (ed., Rowman and Littlefield 2000); Globalization and Development: Key Issues and Debates (ed., Kluwer Academic 2004); Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn (ed., Berghahn Books 2005). He is the founding editor of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.