The political economy of middle class politics and the global crisis in Eastern Europe : the case of Hungary and Romania / / Agnes Gagyi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910495215203321
• Autore: Gagyi Agnes
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 3-030-76943-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 pages)
• Collana: International Political Economy Series
• Disciplina: 305.55209439
• Soggetti: Middle class - Hungary - History - 20th century; Middle class - Hungary - History - 21st century; Middle class - Romania - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Social Movements in Eastern Europe: Problems of Understanding Non-Western Contexts -- A Time-Space Bias in Dominant Understandings of Social Movements -- The Return of the Question of Global Political Economy After 2008 -- The "Crisis of Democratic Capitalism" Narrative -- "Civil Society" and "Democratic Capitalism": Two Dominant Concepts in Understanding East European Movements -- "Civil Society" and the "Rectifying Revolution" -- "Civil Society" and "Democratic Capitalism" in Post-2008 East European Mobilizations -- Understanding Social Movements as Part of Global Capitalism -- Labor Struggles in Global Product Cycles -- Antisystemic Movements in a World-Systems Perspective -- What is Crisis in a Global Sense? -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 External Integration as Internal Force: Middle Class Politics and the "Politics of Backwardness" in Eastern Europe -- Dependent Development and the "Politics of Backwardness" -- Middle Classes and Democracy Outside the Western Core -- Middle Class Politics in Eastern Europe -- The Middle Class as Project: An Ideological Notion of Systemic Integration -- The Notion of the Middle Class in Postwar Developmental Debates -- Debates on the Middle Class in the Current Crisis -- Post-2008 Left Critique of the Middle Class Idea -- The Political Consciousness of a Knowledge Class -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 ; Crisis, Regime Change, Movement: Comparing Mobilization Cycles in Hungarian and Romanian Constellations of Global Integration After 1973 and 2008 -- Socialism, Postsocialism, European Integration: Situated Notions of Systemic Integration -- Late Socialist Regimes of Global Integration-Hungary and Romania After 1973 -- The Hungarian Environmental Movement and Romanian Workers' Mobilizations in Late Socialism.; From Postsocialist Development to Middle Class Mobilizations After 2008 -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Long-Term Middle Class Politics and Contemporary New Left Initiatives in Hungary and Romania -- A New Moment of Intellectual-Political Thought -- New Left Positions in Post-2008 Mobilization Waves -- Left Politics as the Experience of the Self -- Building Substance -- Political Substance in Party Politics -- New Expertise -- Material Self-Organization -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion -- Index.