{"title":"12. Failure to Hive. A Co-narrated Story of a Failed Social Co-operative from the Hungarian Countryside","authors":"Éva Mihalovics, Zsüli Fehér","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"137 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":"115476714","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":"10. A Geographical Political Ecology of Eastern European Food Systems","authors":"R. Blumberg","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.10","url":null,"abstract":"In the midst of debates over the expansion of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to future member states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Franz Fischler, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Fisheries, stated that introducing the CAP to accession countries “could induce a reluctance to change, hindering the development of sound agricultural structures” (Fischler, 2000). This statement alludes to the power dynamic that shaped the EU accession process for post-socialist nation-states in CEE (Blumberg and Mincyte, 2019; Dzenovska, 2018; Klumbytė, 2011; Kuus, 2004; Smith, 2002). The underlying assumption articulated by Commissioner Fischler, but also circulating in popular discourses, was that existing agricultural structures in this region were not ‘sound.’ This assumption was based on a deep and persistent association between eastern Europe and ‘backwardness’ that has long figured in the western European imaginary (Wolff, 1994). This kind of developmentalist thinking has real practical implications because it manifests itself in models, policies and theories that originate in ‘advanced’ places and are to be applied in ‘backward’ places. This chapter uses a geographical political ecology of food systems approach to question this kind of developmentalist thinking, which positions the ‘East’ as inferior to and needing to learn from the ‘West.’ It starts with an overview of the agrarian question from the earlytwentieth century, wherein eastern Europe figured prominently as a locus of theoretical debate and development. The next section shows how analyses written in and on eastern Europe produced generative","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"54 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":"123324939","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":"6. Contorted Naturalisms","authors":"Alexandra Coțofană","doi":"10.11647/OBP.0244.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0244.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":320335,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe","volume":"8 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":"128843861","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}