Green Barons, Force-of-circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Green Barons, Force-of-circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors write by Nigel Swain. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Green Barons, Force-of-circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comparative history investigates rural communities in six east-Central Europe countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Most of them experienced in the 1990s the fourth radical restructuring of agricultural relations of the twentieth century, and, more challengingly, an historically unprecedented trajectory from socialism to capitalism. The author considers similarity and difference in the linked processes of breathing real democratic life into the structures of local democracy and recreating farming structures and non-agricultural businesses based on private ownership and private enterprise.
Poverty as Subsistence
Poverty as Subsistence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poverty as Subsistence write by Mihai Varga. This book was released on 2023-02-21. Poverty as Subsistence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poverty as Subsistence explores the "propertizing" land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations. China's early 1980s land reform offered support for this expectation, but while the spread of propertizing reform to post-communist Eurasia created numerous "subsistence" smallholders, it failed to stimulate entrepreneurship or market-based production among the rural poor. Varga argues that the World Bank advocated a simplified version of China's land reform that ignored a key element of successful reforms: the smallholders' immediate environment, the structure of actors and institutions determining whether smallholders survive and grow in their communities. With concrete insights from analysis of the land reform program throughout post-communist Eurasia and multisited fieldwork in Romania and Ukraine, this book details how and why land reform led to subsistence and the mechanisms underpinning informal commercialization.
Repatriating Polanyi
Repatriating Polanyi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Repatriating Polanyi write by Chris Hann. This book was released on 2019-07-18. Repatriating Polanyi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Karl Polanyi’s “substantivist” critique of market society has found new popularity in the era of neoliberal globalization. The author reclaims this polymath for contemporary anthropology, especially economic anthropology, in the context of Central Europe, where Polanyi (1886–1964) grew up. The Polanyian approach illuminates both the communist era, in particular the “market socialist” economy which evolved under János Kádár in Hungary, as well as the post-communist transformations of property relations, civil society and ethno-national identities throughout the region. Hann’s analyses are based primarily on his own ethnographic investigations in Hungary and South-East Poland. They are pertinent to the rise of neo-nationalism in those countries, which is theorized as a malign countermovement to the domination of the market. At another level, Hann’s adaptation of Polanyi’s social philosophy points beyond current political turbulence to an original concept of “social Eurasia”.
Eastern Europe since 1945
Eastern Europe since 1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eastern Europe since 1945 write by Geoffrey Swain. This book was released on 2017-10-26. Eastern Europe since 1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An established introductory textbook that provides students with an engaging overview of the complex developments in Eastern Europe from the end of the Second World War through to the present. Tracing the origins of the socialist experiment, de-Stalinisation, and the transition from socialism to capitalism, it explores the key events in each nation's recent history. This is an ideal core text for dedicated modules on Eastern European History or Europe since 1945 (including Central Europe and the Balkans) - or a supplementary text for broader modules on Modern European History or European Political History - which may be offered at all levels of an undergraduate history, politics or European studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying the recent history of Eastern Europe for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in Modern European history, European politics or European studies. New to this Edition: - A fully revised new edition of an established text, updated throughout to incorporate the latest research - Provides coverage of recent events - Offers increased focus on social and cultural history with greater emphasis on everyday life and experiences in Eastern Europe
Explorations in Economic Anthropology
Explorations in Economic Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Explorations in Economic Anthropology write by Deema Kaneff. This book was released on 2021-07-16. Explorations in Economic Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology, but also featuring contributions from sociology and history. The chapters engage with debates at the cutting edge of research on the topics of Eurasia, the anthropology of postsocialism and the embeddedness of economic practices.
