Don Kalb and Gábor Halmai ed. – Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe

Description

Since 1989 neo-nationalism has grown as a volatile political force in almost all European societies in tandem with the formation of a neoliberal European Union and wider capitalist globalizations. Focusing on working classes situated in long-run localized processes of social change, including processes of dispossession and disenfranchisement, this volume investigates how the experiences, histories, and relationships of social class are a necessary ingredient for explaining the re-emergence and dynamics of populist nationalism in both Eastern and Western Europe. Featuring in-depth urban and regional case studies from Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Italy and Scotland this volume reclaims class for anthropological research and lays out a new interdisciplinary agenda for studying identity politics in the intensifying neoliberal conjuncture.

Table of contents

• Introduction
  Don Kalb
• Chapter 1 Nationalism Is Back Radikali and Privatization in Serbia
  Theodora Vetta
• Chapter 2 Articulating the Right to the City
  Norbert Petrovici
• Chapter 3 Football Fandom in Cluj
  Florin Faje
• Chapter 4 It Cant Make Me Happy that Audi is Prospering
  Eszter Bartha
• Chapter 5 Dispossessed by the Spectre of Socialism
  Gábor Halmai
• Chapter 6 A Long March to Oblivion?
  Michael Blim
• Chapter 7 Class without Consciousness
  Jaro Stacul
• Chapter 8 Working Class Nationalism in a Scottish Village
  Paul Gilfillan
• Epilogue From the Ashes of a Counter-Revolution
  George Baca