Land grabbing and the making of an authoritarian populist regime in Hungary

Abstract

How do authoritarian populist regimes emerge within the European Union in the twenty-first century? In Hungary, land grabbing by oligarchs have been one of the pillars maintaining Prime Minister Orban's regime. The phenomenon remains out of the public purview and meets little resistance as the regime-controlled media keeps Hungarians 'distracted' with 'dangers' inflicted by the 'enemies of the Hungarian people' such as refugees and the European Union. The Hungarian case calls for scholarly-activist attention to how authoritarian populism is maintained by, and affects rural areas, as well as how emancipation can be envisaged in such a context.

Keywords

Authoritarian populism; land grabbing; authority; subjectivities; emancipation; Hungary

Published in

Journal of Peasant Studies
2019, volume: 46, number: 3, pages: 606-625
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

SLU Authors

• Gonda, Noémi

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Global goals (SDG)

SDG16 Peace, justice and strong institutions

UKÄ Subject classification

Social Anthropology
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2019.1584190

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/99658