{"title":"8. The Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies of Wild Nature Conservation in Romania","authors":"George Iordăchescu","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116754058","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}
Eszter Krasznai Kovacs, G. Pataki, A. Novák, Mikuláš Černík, J. Hrckova, Balša Lubarda, Alexandra Coțofană, Imola Püsök, George Iordăchescu, J. Brawner, R. Blumberg, Jovana Diković, Éva Mihalovics, Zsüli Fehér
{"title":"Concluding Thoughts","authors":"Eszter Krasznai Kovacs, G. Pataki, A. Novák, Mikuláš Černík, J. Hrckova, Balša Lubarda, Alexandra Coțofană, Imola Püsök, George Iordăchescu, J. Brawner, R. Blumberg, Jovana Diković, Éva Mihalovics, Zsüli Fehér","doi":"10.11647/obp.0244.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0244.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121182819","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}
{"title":"4. Gaps of Warsaw","authors":"J. Hrckova","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.04","url":null,"abstract":"POLITICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe is a wonderful volume that makes an excellent set of unique contributions to the political ecology and political anthropology of Eastern European environmentalism, environmental policy and the post-socialist transition. In fact, there is no other project like it as far as I am aware of, and the collection of engaging and critical chapters will surely be a sought-after resource for the present and future scholarship of the region. The project is timely and significant and will help to push theory and ethnography forward into new and fresh areas of inquiry. -Edward Snajdr, John Jay College of Criminal Justice","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116768182","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}
{"title":"9. Domesticating the Taste of Place","authors":"J. Brawner","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.09","url":null,"abstract":"As part of extended fieldwork in Hungary, I attended a formal wine tasting on the theme of indigenous furmint grape wines in the summer of 2017. At a cosy, English-language culinary centre, British wine writer Joseph1 is leading the group (a mixture of about eighteen Hungarian locals and North American visitors) into the aszú portion of the wine list. Aszú wines are a traditional specialty of the Tokaj wine region, made from grapes that have been affected with the fungus Botrytis cinerea. The fungus, which arrives in late autumn (if at all), settles on the berries, then vampirically consumes the flesh from the outside, changing the composition of the juice as it reinjects the fruit with its waste products. The result of this “desirable meeting between a fruit and a fungus” (Magyar and Soos, 2016: 31) is irreproducible: a highly sugared,","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116725493","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}
{"title":"1. The Dismantling of Environmentalism in Hungary","authors":"Eszter Krasznai Kovacs, G. Pataki","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125487327","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}
{"title":"7. A (Hi)Story of Dwelling in a (Post)Mining Town in Romania","authors":"Imola Püsök","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.07","url":null,"abstract":"For many people in Roșia Montană, living within their environment means mining gold, whilst also attending to some farm animals, a small garden, and collecting hay in a fairly traditional manner on the steep slopes surrounding the villages. The process of dwelling imbues the landscape with aesthetic qualities that prompt the unfolding of what Michael Uzendoski calls “somatic poetry”: webs of interwoven lives and life narratives emergent in complex and dynamic social and ecological relationships, the experiencing of beauty and belonging (Uzendoski, 2008). In the somatic poetries of people in Roșia Montană gold and mining have central importance—primarily as indicators of worth and value—and experiencing and articulating beauty and value differently isolates locals from ‘Others’ and emphasises generational differences in understandings of loss. In this chapter I present a (hi)story of dwelling in Corna, a village that belongs within the commune1 of Roșia Montană. My aim is twofold: to unveil the context, i.e. the micro-world where individual stories and the lives of locals unfold and intertwine, on the one hand, and to weave my own analysis into the landscape on the other. In describing the context I draw on the narrative of a local councillor, ‘nea M.,2 who in his very","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"251 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114534706","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}
{"title":"3. The Construction of Climate Justice Imaginaries through Resistance in the Czech Republic and Poland","authors":"Mikuláš Černík","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121644005","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}
{"title":"11. What is Not Known about Rural Development? Village Experiences from Serbia","authors":"Jovana Diković","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.11","url":null,"abstract":"I centre this discussion around extended ethnographic research in three villages in Vojvodina Province in Serbia, where I studied understandings and practical effects of state-led and endogenous rural development. Intellectual conceptualisations of rural development and its realisation by state and policy makers have ceased to mean only the improvement of economic and social standing of land users (or targeted groups or individuals), but also imply rather complex planning, goals (Scoones, 2009) or ideology (Sachs, 2009) whose effects tie together economic, social and environmental improvements to all categories of people in rural areas. In contrast, endogenous rural development draws from cohesive community structures and represents both the source of social and individual identity and social obligations within and toward communities. While stateand donor-led rural development projects often fail to achieve their encompassing goals (see Blackburn and Holland, 1998; Mosse, 2001; Cooke and Kothari, 2001; Hobart, 1993; Chambers, 1983; Higgot, 1983), this chapter will unpack evidence from my fieldsites that suggests that endogenous rural development driven by local values, in combination with favourable market incentives, may achieve wider effects. These effects develop for at least two reasons. First, there is a structural difference between state-led and endogenous rural development. Agricultural policies and measures conducted by the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture from 2000 until today, are rudimentary, predominantly","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114475662","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}
{"title":"2. The Making of the Environmental and Climate Justice Movements in the Czech Republic","authors":"A. Novák","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124974817","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}
{"title":"5. Far-right Grassroots Environmental Activism in Poland and the Blurry Lines of ‘Acceptable’ Environmentalisms","authors":"Balša Lubarda","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127982481","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}