Slovakia: An Anthropological Perspective on Identity and Regional Reform

Bitušíková, Alexandra

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“…Здесь меньшинства могут использовать свой родной язык во всех взаимодействиях с должностными лицами штатов и местных органов власти, а официальные документы должны быть доступны в переводе. Однако реформа 2001 года установила границы территориальных образований таким образом, чтобы венгерское меньшинство в них не превышало 20 % [1]. Данный факт, в частности, спровоцировал выход SMK из национального правительства.…”

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Where Is Regionalism Disappearing? Comparative Analysis of Regionalist Movement Transformation in the Countries of Central Eastern Europe

Вячеславовна¹

2021

Вестник Удмуртского Университета. Социология. Политология. Международные Отношения

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The study of regionalism has been, perhaps, one of the trends in the world political science for more than half a century. At the same time, the main attention of researchers is attracted by cases of “successful” regionalism (for example, in Spain or Great Britain), while “unsuccessful” (in electoral terms) regionalisms remain without proper analysis. The purpose of this study was to identify the main factors contributing to the decline of the regionalism. Based on the materials of three regionalisms in Central Eastern Europe (Somogy, Moravia and South Slovakia), these factors were identified. As a research method, a small-N qualitative comparison was used. The study identified three groups of factors that can potentially influence the success of the regionalist movement: factors associated with the activity of regionalist actors, institutional factors and factors of regional identity. Each of these factors, directly and in combination with others, can affect the success of the regionalist movement. Thus, for Moravian regionalism, the decisive factors of decline were the organizational weakness of the regionalist party combined with the decline of regional identity; for regionalism in Somogy, the fatal reform of the administrative-territorial structure of Hungary, depriving the regions of any autonomy and real power, and Hungarian regionalism in Slovakia, deprived institutional and organizational privileges, has lost its electoral significance. In general, the decline of the regionalist movement in this context only in one case out of three led to the disappearance of the regionalist movement itself, in two cases it was successfully transformed into other organizational forms. Thus, the study identifies the main factors of the decline of regionalism and identifies possible models of its transformation.

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Where Is Regionalism Disappearing? Comparative Analysis of Regionalist Movement Transformation in the Countries of Central Eastern Europe

Вячеславовна¹

2021

Вестник Удмуртского Университета. Социология. Политология. Международные Отношения

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“…Many people believe that those who succeed economically must be corrupt or criminal (Róna-Tas, 1996;Wanner, 2003). Bitušíková (2002) argues that these beliefs were common among central and eastern European peasants but that they were also perpetuated by communist rhetoric. Nevertheless, such beliefs are also based on observations that many of the newly wealthy have ties to organized crime (Róna-Tas, 1996) or to elite networks closed to the common person (Kideckel, 2002).…”

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Work, Health, Music: The enduring Rusyn model of a good life amid changing socioeconomic contexts of progress

Cantin

2013

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Rusyns in Eastern and Central Europe have experience with two predominant models of “progress”: the Soviet-style communist and the neoliberal. Proponents of each system promised to better the lives of all but did not take into account what “better” meant to local populations, including Rusyns. Increasingly, European governmental and nongovernmental organizations are redefining notions of progress and development to accord with values of sustainability and a capability approach (CA) to well-being. Giovanola (2005) and Robeyns (2005) have argued that scholars of the CA need to better develop concepts of “personhood” and “human flourishing”, and to better explain the importance of social group membership and norms to living a valued life. The emerging anthropological focus on well-being, emphasizing culturally specific definitions of what happiness and a good life mean, can provide these conceptualizations. As a case in point, I use freelist and interview data obtained from residents in the Prešov Region of Slovakia and the Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine along with Rusyn cultural narratives drawn from poems, folktales, plays, songs, interviews, and speeches to identify prevalent models of “personhood” and “a good life”. I discuss how these narratives intersect and diverge with discourses of happiness and progress along with the implications for Rusyns' ability to flourish.

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Regionalisierung und Dezentralisierung in Mittel- und Südosteuropa 1997–2007

Bauer

Pitschel

2009

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Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag zieht eine Bilanz der Ergebnisse der mittel-und südosteuropä-ischen Regionalisierungsforschung der vergangenen zehn Jahre. Das zentrale Ergebnis der Bestandsaufnahme ist, dass das wissenschaftliche Interesse an Erklärungsversuchen aus der Perspektive der Staatstransformation und der europäischen Konditionalitätspolitik, welche die Forschung bislang geprägt haben, nachlässt. Nachdem die Mehrzahl mittel-und südosteuropäischer Staaten der Europäischen Union beigetreten ist, gewinnt nun der Governance-Ansatz immer stärker an Bedeutung. Damit "normalisiert" sich die Debatte über politische Dezentralisierung und Regionalisierung in Mittel-und Südosteuropa und konvergiert mit den einschlägigen Regionalisierungsdiskursen westeuropäischer Provenienz.Schlagwörter: Regionalisierung · Mittel-und Südosteuropa · Systemtransformation · EU-Konditionalität · Governance Abstract: The review essay takes stock of the last decade of decentralisation and regionalisation research in Central and South Eastern Europe. Classifying the existing scholarship with regard to its focus of analysis, its explanatory programme, and methodological predilections, we suggest to distinguish three different agendas: system transformation, EU conditionality and subnational governance. We argue that scholarly interest in regionalisation and decentralisation issues from the perspective of state transformation or Europeanisation is vanishing. Instead, we witness the PD Dr.

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Slovakia: An Anthropological Perspective on Identity and Regional Reform

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Where Is Regionalism Disappearing? Comparative Analysis of Regionalist Movement Transformation in the Countries of Central Eastern Europe

Where Is Regionalism Disappearing? Comparative Analysis of Regionalist Movement Transformation in the Countries of Central Eastern Europe

Work, Health, Music: The enduring Rusyn model of a good life amid changing socioeconomic contexts of progress

Regionalisierung und Dezentralisierung in Mittel- und Südosteuropa 1997–2007

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