Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2089388
Emília Barna, Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the relationship between popular music, nationalism and political power in a local context through the case of Hungary. Through the combination of musicological group analysis, fieldwork, interviews and media analysis, we follow the trajectory of the song “Nélküled” (Ismerős Arcok 2007) between 2007 and 2021 through its changing musical, social, media and political contexts. We identify three processes: firstly, the radicalization of the band in a subcultural context parallel to the development of the so-called national rock genre; secondly, the popularization and folklorization of the song, whereby it becomes at least partly detached from the original performing artists and embedded into the everyday culture of broader population segments; and finally, the parallel processes of political legitimation and cultural consecration. Our enquiry contributes a political economic perspective to the relatively under-theorized system of relationships between popular music, its social-cultural (genre, taste) and industrial logics, politics and the media by complementing media-based theories of subculture and mainstream with an understanding of political actors and processes. Through this, we also complement studies of everyday nationalism with viewing cultural practices in the political context of hegemonic right-wing ideology and increasing government control of the cultural and media industries.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2089383
H. Jörgensen
{"title":"The Hungarian agricultural miracle? Sovietization and Americanization in a communist Country","authors":"H. Jörgensen","doi":"10.1080/25739638.2022.2089383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2022.2089383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37199,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe","volume":"30 1","pages":"301 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42167341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2092260
A. Semenov
ABSTRACT Analysing the speech of Aleksandar Vučić delivered in the National Assembly on 28 May 2019, this paper argues that his aim is to re-establish nationalist discourse in Serbia. Vučić uses only the negative common features of Serbs as a foundation for the emotional continuity of the nation while ignoring existing attachments such as the territorialization of memory and sanctification of territory. Furthermore, since he believes that the question of Kosovo’s status (a central theme of both attachments), and political continuity have been lost because of the irresponsible politics of previous governments and severe pressure from the Western powers, Vučić links a compromise with the Kosovo Albanians to the question of Serbia’s survival. The paper leaves it to the reader to assess whether this change would be ideal for Serbia or morally permissible. In addition, the question of whether the existing attachments, built through education and collective memory for decades – even centuries – are sufficiently solidified to reject the change, remains largely unexplored.
{"title":"An analysis of Aleksandar Vučić’s 2019 national assembly speech","authors":"A. Semenov","doi":"10.1080/25739638.2022.2092260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2022.2092260","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Analysing the speech of Aleksandar Vučić delivered in the National Assembly on 28 May 2019, this paper argues that his aim is to re-establish nationalist discourse in Serbia. Vučić uses only the negative common features of Serbs as a foundation for the emotional continuity of the nation while ignoring existing attachments such as the territorialization of memory and sanctification of territory. Furthermore, since he believes that the question of Kosovo’s status (a central theme of both attachments), and political continuity have been lost because of the irresponsible politics of previous governments and severe pressure from the Western powers, Vučić links a compromise with the Kosovo Albanians to the question of Serbia’s survival. The paper leaves it to the reader to assess whether this change would be ideal for Serbia or morally permissible. In addition, the question of whether the existing attachments, built through education and collective memory for decades – even centuries – are sufficiently solidified to reject the change, remains largely unexplored.","PeriodicalId":37199,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe","volume":"30 1","pages":"259 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43128885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2089387
Jakub Machek
ABSTRACT Discotheques and later the club scene were the means by which several generations of young people met their entertainment and social needs in the Czech lands beginning in the late 1960s. While the late socialist dictatorship insisted that culture be a vehicle for education and enlightenment, the new market-oriented, post-socialist society focused on rapid profits over the quality of young people’s entertainment. Nevertheless, young people managed to create spaces for their own preferred forms of entertainment under these different conditions with the help of various strategies. Drawing on interviews with DJs and regular scene participants, this study explores Czech(oslovak) dance venues and night life from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.
{"title":"From discotheques to clubs: the transformation of dance venues and night life between late socialism and early capitalism in the Czechoslovakia","authors":"Jakub Machek","doi":"10.1080/25739638.2022.2089387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2022.2089387","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Discotheques and later the club scene were the means by which several generations of young people met their entertainment and social needs in the Czech lands beginning in the late 1960s. While the late socialist dictatorship insisted that culture be a vehicle for education and enlightenment, the new market-oriented, post-socialist society focused on rapid profits over the quality of young people’s entertainment. Nevertheless, young people managed to create spaces for their own preferred forms of entertainment under these different conditions with the help of various strategies. Drawing on interviews with DJs and regular scene participants, this study explores Czech(oslovak) dance venues and night life from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.","PeriodicalId":37199,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe","volume":"30 1","pages":"167 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44303952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2092258
Ivaylo Dinev
ABSTRACT This article compares the trajectories of new-left movements in two post-socialist, South east European states, Bulgaria and Slovenia. In arguing that protest politics is deeply embedded in the historical and temporal processes of the national context, the study takes a historical perspective on the analysis of political transformations since the late period of socialism and the development of protest traditions. This long-term reconstruction suggests that the emergence of a strong new-left movement in Slovenia was facilitated by two relational processes: the growing political polarization within the left and the political identification of influential protest actors with left-wing ideas and frames.
{"title":"Historical processes and new-left movements: exploring the divergent paths of protest politics in Southeast Europe","authors":"Ivaylo Dinev","doi":"10.1080/25739638.2022.2092258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2022.2092258","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article compares the trajectories of new-left movements in two post-socialist, South east European states, Bulgaria and Slovenia. In arguing that protest politics is deeply embedded in the historical and temporal processes of the national context, the study takes a historical perspective on the analysis of political transformations since the late period of socialism and the development of protest traditions. This long-term reconstruction suggests that the emergence of a strong new-left movement in Slovenia was facilitated by two relational processes: the growing political polarization within the left and the political identification of influential protest actors with left-wing ideas and frames.","PeriodicalId":37199,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe","volume":"30 1","pages":"237 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47206598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2089385
C. González-Villa
{"title":"Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class: The Story of Two Self-Managed Factories","authors":"C. González-Villa","doi":"10.1080/25739638.2022.2089385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2022.2089385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37199,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe","volume":"30 1","pages":"299 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44966110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2044618
V. Pehe, Vítězslav Sommer
ABSTRACT Privatization was one of the key mechanisms in the transformation from planned to market economies in the former Eastern Bloc following the collapse of communist regimes. Although this radical change in ownership structures is most often understood as belonging to the sphere of the economy, it also profoundly affected society and shared values. As historians are increasingly turning to the post-1989 period in Central and Eastern Europe, this introduction and special issue argue that economic and political history alone are not sufficient to investigate the process of privatization; approaches from social and cultural history are also necessary. Transformation, and privatization in particular, was the result of complex interactions between the economic policies of nation-states, the actions of transnational organizations and private corporations, the development of global capitalism, but also of local traditions, cultural stereotypes and representations, and the transformation of institutions other than political and economic ones. By taking into account this complex nexus of factors, we argue, historical research can bring a new quality to the existing social science work on postsocialist privatization and economic transformation more generally.
{"title":"Historicizing postsocialist privatization at the juncture of the cultural and the economic","authors":"V. Pehe, Vítězslav Sommer","doi":"10.1080/25739638.2022.2044618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2022.2044618","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Privatization was one of the key mechanisms in the transformation from planned to market economies in the former Eastern Bloc following the collapse of communist regimes. Although this radical change in ownership structures is most often understood as belonging to the sphere of the economy, it also profoundly affected society and shared values. As historians are increasingly turning to the post-1989 period in Central and Eastern Europe, this introduction and special issue argue that economic and political history alone are not sufficient to investigate the process of privatization; approaches from social and cultural history are also necessary. Transformation, and privatization in particular, was the result of complex interactions between the economic policies of nation-states, the actions of transnational organizations and private corporations, the development of global capitalism, but also of local traditions, cultural stereotypes and representations, and the transformation of institutions other than political and economic ones. By taking into account this complex nexus of factors, we argue, historical research can bring a new quality to the existing social science work on postsocialist privatization and economic transformation more generally.","PeriodicalId":37199,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe","volume":"30 1","pages":"1 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42623892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2054089
Máté Rigó
ABSTRACT While the history of regime changes and the eventual embrace of pro-market reforms in Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s is well-known, we know little about the socialist bureaucrats who implemented and often modified abstract party declarations on the relationship of socialist states to the West or to market reforms. Equally underexplored are the cultural stereotypes that guided East-West negotiations and the training of Eastern European technocrats who became negotiators with Western governments and corporations. Through the examination of the personal archives of socialist Hungary’s key “negotiation expert” and leading foreign trade advisor, János Nyerges, this article documents the attempt of Hungarian policy elites to beat Western corporations, banks, and governments at their own game – capitalism – by importing and adopting Western business negotiation practices, while leaving the communist party’s monopoly on power intact.
{"title":"Beating capitalists at their own game? Foreign traders and western negotiation studies in late-socialist Hungary","authors":"Máté Rigó","doi":"10.1080/25739638.2022.2054089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2022.2054089","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While the history of regime changes and the eventual embrace of pro-market reforms in Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s is well-known, we know little about the socialist bureaucrats who implemented and often modified abstract party declarations on the relationship of socialist states to the West or to market reforms. Equally underexplored are the cultural stereotypes that guided East-West negotiations and the training of Eastern European technocrats who became negotiators with Western governments and corporations. Through the examination of the personal archives of socialist Hungary’s key “negotiation expert” and leading foreign trade advisor, János Nyerges, this article documents the attempt of Hungarian policy elites to beat Western corporations, banks, and governments at their own game – capitalism – by importing and adopting Western business negotiation practices, while leaving the communist party’s monopoly on power intact.","PeriodicalId":37199,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe","volume":"30 1","pages":"63 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41344373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2046764
Felipe Ziotti Narita, Natalia-Rozalia Avlona, M. Ivancheva
The present interview organized by the Greek researcher Natalia-Rozalia Avlona and the Brazilian researcher Felipe Ziotti Narita has been reworked and updated from its first publication in a special issue of Brazilian journal Cadernos CIMEAC , devoted to the experiences of popular education in Latin America in the 2010s. Ivancheva was invited by the authors to discuss the contemporary higher education scenario and radical popular experiments in Latin America in light of her political and research experiences in Eastern and Western Europe. In the interview she touches upon her own trajectory as Eastern European academic and activist working on topics and geographies that remain siloed into different “area studies” domains; in which scholars finding themselves – by birth or location – associated with specific peripheral area are only justified in their interest in their own region, whereas those located in the core hubs of knowledge production are in charge of comparisons made and lessons learned. Transcending the firm givens of such a core-periphery dynamics in academic knowledge – a key intention and message of the interview and Ivancheva’s work – is crucial to overcoming this centrifugal dynamic, decolonializing universities and political practice and learning from the past. As the interview took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, few questions also touch upon Ivancheva’s ongoing academic and activist work on precarious labour in academia and on some technologically enhanced capitalist developments in Europe and the Global South.
{"title":"Radical higher education alternatives: lessons from socialist pasts and neoliberal presents","authors":"Felipe Ziotti Narita, Natalia-Rozalia Avlona, M. Ivancheva","doi":"10.1080/25739638.2022.2046764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2022.2046764","url":null,"abstract":"The present interview organized by the Greek researcher Natalia-Rozalia Avlona and the Brazilian researcher Felipe Ziotti Narita has been reworked and updated from its first publication in a special issue of Brazilian journal Cadernos CIMEAC , devoted to the experiences of popular education in Latin America in the 2010s. Ivancheva was invited by the authors to discuss the contemporary higher education scenario and radical popular experiments in Latin America in light of her political and research experiences in Eastern and Western Europe. In the interview she touches upon her own trajectory as Eastern European academic and activist working on topics and geographies that remain siloed into different “area studies” domains; in which scholars finding themselves – by birth or location – associated with specific peripheral area are only justified in their interest in their own region, whereas those located in the core hubs of knowledge production are in charge of comparisons made and lessons learned. Transcending the firm givens of such a core-periphery dynamics in academic knowledge – a key intention and message of the interview and Ivancheva’s work – is crucial to overcoming this centrifugal dynamic, decolonializing universities and political practice and learning from the past. As the interview took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, few questions also touch upon Ivancheva’s ongoing academic and activist work on precarious labour in academia and on some technologically enhanced capitalist developments in Europe and the Global South.","PeriodicalId":37199,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe","volume":"30 1","pages":"125 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48389426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2044585
A. Polese, Gian Marco Moisé, O. Lysa, T. Kerikmäe, A. Sauka, O. Seliverstova
ABSTRACT Reflecting on the results of the shadow economy survey, as conceptualized by Putnis and Sauka and implemented in Ukraine in 2019 for the first time, the goal of the current article is two-fold. First, it offers an overview of the results for the years 2017 and 2018 and estimates the shadow economy in the country at 38.3% of GDP for 2017 and 38.5% for 2018. Second, it suggests possible advantages in the use of direct methods to estimate the level of the shadow economy in a country and explore the motives pushing entrepreneurs to remain in the shadow. The discussion is then framed to conceptualize the distinction between shadow economy and informality. We conclude by suggesting that a better understanding of the entangled relations lying behind the reasons to stay in the shadow can help us better address the issue and propose measures that could help bring business out of the shadow.
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