Land grabbing and the making of an authoritarian populist regime in Hungary

Gonda, Noémi

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“…Despite the unfavorable social and economic trends, the population of villages and small rural towns still jointly account for slightly more than half of the Hungarian population (Csurgó et al 2018). A rapid concentration of land and land use took place in Hungary prior to accession to EU membership in 2004, becoming one of the most concentrated in Europe (Gonda 2019; Kovách 2016a). Due to the change in the agricultural structure, the decline in rural industry and the migration of the urban poor to the villages, rural unemployment, and poverty are frequently compared to the average of Hungarian national indicators.…”

Section: Transforming Hungarian Ruralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

State Populism in Rural Hungary*

Czibere

Kovách

2021

Rural Sociology

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Our concern in this contribution is to ask what the special features of populism in Hungary are, where government and the largest opposition party can be considered populist. The study aims at analyzing motivations, interests, benefits, and profits of populism in fragile Hungarian regions. The main part examines three peculiar features of state populism: the rural support for stabile political and social structures; early-born conservative social policy, which freezes and preserves social inequalities and pacificates social conflicts; and selective social policy that has made a strong difference between "worthy" and "unworthy" poor, thus, contributing to ethnic-based conflicts and emerging prejudice. The Hungarian case shows that poverty and social inequalities, disintegration, hierarchical local power structure with dominance of economic-political oligarchy, weak participation, monopolization of local and non-local media, and racialization of poverty are enabling factors of populism.

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Section: Transforming Hungarian Ruralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

State Populism in Rural Hungary*

Czibere

Kovách

2021

Rural Sociology

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“…In Eastern Europe, former collective farm structures were dismantled, and land was distributed to the rural population. Yet, individual commercial farming emerged on a limited scale; most of the land became accumulated by industrial agribusiness, often with oligarchic or international capital involved (Visser and Spoor 2011;Gonda 2019). Only a few countriessuch as Romania and Polandare still characterised by large numbers of small farms, yet processes of land concentration also take place there (Hajdu and Visser 2017).…”

Section: Europementioning

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‘Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe: insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ukraine

Mamonova

Franquesa

Brooks

2020

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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This study depicts various manifestations of what we call 'actually existing' right-wing populism. Based on empirical insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the UK and Ukraine, we explored how nationalist tendencies unfold in different contexts and what role agriculture and rural imageries play in this process. We analyse contextual factors (rural 'emptiness', socio-economic inequality, particularities of electoral systems, politics of Europeanization) and citizens' perceptions of social reality (selective memory, subjective experiences of democracy, national redefinition, politics of emotions). We conclude that resistance and alternatives to right-wing populism should be context-specific, grounded in the social fabric and culture of the locale.

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“…The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development encompasses land-related objectives under SDGs 1, 2, 5, 11 and 15 (thereby making land a significant component to achieve other SDGs). 1 Academia and activists in the Global North and South, working on land rights, are particularly interested in understanding how land grabbing intrinsically leads to exclusion of local communities from access to natural resources, introducing privatisation of these resources and resulting in human right violations (Borras et al, 2011; Gonda, 2019). The crudeness and privileges of present-day global capitalism have become more prominent through the practice of hostile methods of accretion by depriving original possessors (Harvey, 2003; Swyngedouw, 2005), thus generating disparate social relations in production in capitalism between those who have control and those who are deprived (Andreasson, 2006).…”

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“…This has serious repercussions due to structural inequalities in access to natural resources (Velaskar, 2016). In most of the contemporary literature, the discourse on land grab is seen as a mechanism to enhance state power within democratic governance (Gonda, 2019; White et al, 2012). However, there is disparity in literature on the discourse on domestic micro-level land grabs and natural resource management centred around gender.…”

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Land Grabbing in Common Property Resources: How Women Social Positions Intersect Access to Natural Resources

Naz

2022

Sociological Bulletin

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This article intends to showcase that land grabbing of gauchar (pastureland) at the village level affects women and men in differing ways, along the variables of gender and caste. The article uncovers the notion that the link among gender, caste and access to common property resources (CPRs) are deeply rooted in the power dynamics of the caste-based operating system at the informal level. Drawing on intersectionality perspective, the article explains through ethnographic data collected over a period of time, in a small rural community in Gujarat, India, that women’s social location/standing leads them to have multiple identities, which defines and alters their gender relations, norms, negotiations and access to resources, in context to land grab of CPRs. Consequently, the article argues that group-based social differences and power structures ultimately determine access to natural resources and institutional base for women from different strata of society wherein the governance structure may fall short of addressing these issues.

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Land grabbing and the making of an authoritarian populist regime in Hungary

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State Populism in Rural Hungary*

State Populism in Rural Hungary*

‘Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe: insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ukraine

Land Grabbing in Common Property Resources: How Women Social Positions Intersect Access to Natural Resources

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