Nigel Swain

Datos Biográficos

ID283132
NOMBRENigel Swain
NOMBRESNigel
APELLIDOSwain
FIRMASWAIN N
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Otago
ORCID0000-0002-2467-5796
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS50
TOTAL DE CITAS108
TOTAL COMO AUTOR50
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1981
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H6

  • Workfare Schemes as a Tool For Preventing the Further Impoverishment of the Rural Poor

    Open AccessJudit Keller, Katalin Kovacs et al.ARTICLEEastern European Countryside2024

    This article examines workfare schemes in rural Hungary and their contribution to relieving rural poverty. It does so on the basis of an analysis of European Union statistics and a series of semi-structured interviews which were conducted in 2013-2015 as part of a larger project investigating the contemporary state of rural Hungary. The paper comprises four sections: following a short description of the methodology, regional disparities and depri…

  • Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming

    Open AccessNigel Swain, Nigel John Swain et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

  • Group singing improves both physical and psychological wellbeing in people with and without chronic health conditions

    Open AccessQuinn Campbell, Sally Bodkin-Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2022

    The aim of this narrative review was to establish a link between psychological and physical wellbeing in people with and without chronic health conditions who participated in group singing. Four databases were searched (PubMed, WoS, MEDLINE, and Scopus) using a systematic search method. Articles were screened, yielding 19 suitable articles. In most studies that were included group singing led to an increase in both psychological and physiological…

  • Patriarchy and paternalism on a Hungarian collective farm

    Nigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Central…2022Referencias: 4

    The article considers the situation of women in a single Hungarian collective farm - the Red Flag collective farm - in the mid-1970s on the basis of materials collected and interviews made at the time. It considers their work situation, their role in management, their contribution to the cooperative's leadership, and the impact of Hungary's new woman policy of the 1970s. Providing employment for women was a central goal of the farm leadership, bu…

  • Explaining Illiberal Democracy - Gábor Scheiring, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy

    Open AccessNigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEEuropean Journal of Sociology2020Referencias: 1

    Explaining Illiberal Democracy - Gábor Scheiring, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 367 p.); Juraj Buzalka, The Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union: Village Fascists and their Rivals (Abingdon/New York, Routledge, 2021, electronic version) - Volume 61 Issue 3

  • A communication skills intervention to minimise patient perpetrated aggression for healthcare support workers in New Zealand

    Open AccessMaria Baby, Christopher Gale et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2018Referencias: 1

    Healthcare support workers face challenging situations in their day-to-day work but may have minimal training on how to deal with such incidents. Although staff training is often recommended as an essential part of any comprehensive approach for preventing and managing workplace violence, there is paucity of evidence on the content and effectiveness of such training. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of an intervention (communication skills…

  • Sándor Horváth. Stalinism Reloaded

    Open AccessNigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    In Stalinism Reloaded: Everyday Life in Stalin-City, Hungary, a major contribution to the social and cultural history of socialist Eastern Europe, Sándor Horváth melds two narratives in a study of 1950s Sztálinváros (Dunaújváros since 1961). The first is the contrast, which the town’s chief architect acknowledged, between the “planned city” and the “growing city”: the constraints imposed by growing meant that the city did not develop as planned. …

  • Urban and Industrial Everyday Life under Socialism and Post-Socialism

    Open AccessNigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEContemporary European History2017Citada por: 1Referencias: 17

    The above quotations from two of the books under review here took me back to the early 1970s and my first weeks in Hungary. As a graduate student in sociology, struggling to get to grips with my surroundings, I distinctly remember thinking that what was needed was an anthropology for large-scale industrial society to explain their foreignness and remoteness. Everything in the metropolis of Budapest followed a different logic, and in the academic …

  • Martha Lampland, The Value of Labor

    Open AccessNigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2017

  • A qualitative study of pain experiences in patients requiring hip and knee arthroplasty

    Open AccessJessica Leov, Ella Barrett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2017Referencias: 39

    The aim of this study was to conduct an in-depth investigation of experiences with pain before knee and hip replacement surgery. A total of 20 patients were interviewed, and interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to identify themes. These were as follows: living with pain, pain conceptualised, pain treatments and healthcare system. Pre-surgical pain is very disabling and is viewed as biological. There was an associated loss of independ…

  • Eastern European Rurality in a Neo‐Liberal, European Union World

    Open AccessNigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLESociologia Ruralis2016Citada por: 5Referencias: 10

    The article first argues that we live in a neo‐liberal world in that neo‐liberalism has become the economic orthodoxy which informs policy‐making, but that the commitment of the European Union and its Common Agricultural Policy to neo‐liberalism is somewhat ambiguous. It then examines the impact of that ambiguous Common Agricultural Policy on Eastern European rurality in the decade or so since the New Member States joined. In many respects it has…

  • Party Politics, Political Competition and Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Hungary

    Dae Soon Kim, Nigel Swain et al.ARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2015Citada por: 2Referencias: 11

    This article considers processes involved in coming to terms with the past in the early years of post-communist Hungary. It addresses the impacts of ‘soft’ late socialism, ‘negotiated’ post-socialist transition, and the intense inter-party and intra-party competition in which Hungary’s first democratically elected government operated. It concludes that claims that Hungary failed to confront the past in the early 1990s miss the mark. The past was …

  • Alienating Labour

    Nigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLESocial History2015

    Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary." Social History, 40(1), pp. 132–133

  • Socialist Escapes

    Nigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLESocial History2014Citada por: 7

    This collection of ten case studies contributes to the growing literature on what everyday life was like in socialist eastern Europe. As with many collections, the editors have been challenged to c

  • Anu Mai Kõll. The Village and the Class War

    Nigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Journal Article Anu Mai Kõll. The Village and the Class War: Anti-Kulak Campaign in Estonia. Get access Anu Mai Kõll. The Village and the Class War: Anti-Kulak Campaign in Estonia. (Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, number 2.) Budapest and New York: Central European University Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 283. $55.00. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …

  • Agriculture 'East of the Elbe' and the Common Agricultural Policy

    Open AccessNigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLESociologia Ruralis2013Citada por: 3Referencias: 25

    This article explores some of the ambiguities inherent in applying a model of Western European agriculture (the model implicit within the tried and tested modalities of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)) to the very different agrarian structures of Central and Eastern Europe. It identifies first the dramatic and long-standing differences in agrarian structures between these two European regions before considering some of the policy consequence…

  • A Post-Socialist Capitalism

    Nigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2011Citada por: 6Referencias: 33

    In the two decades or so following 1989, the countries of East Central Europe1 were transformed into market economies and liberal democracies, and became members of NATO and the European Union. Bot

  • Mária Palasik, Chess Game for Democracy

    Nigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEDebatte Journal of Contemporary…2011Referencias: 1

    Maria PALASIK, Chess Game for Democracy: Hungary Between East and West, 1944–47 . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 11 May, 2011, hbk ISBN: 9780773538498, $95.00; pbk ISBN: 9780773538504

  • Taking personal responsibility for well-being increases birth satisfaction of first time mothers

    Open AccessAnne M Howarth, Nigel Swain et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2011Citada por: 5Referencias: 26

    Birth satisfaction has been found to enhance a mother's capacity to develop a sense of maternal identity. This study used a phenomenological form of thematic analysis to gain in-depth insights into the birth experiences of first-time New Zealand mothers. Taking personal responsibility (the choices participants made in relation to being in control of and accountable for their own birth processes) was a core theme. Those participants who described …

  • Eastern Europe since 1945

    Open AccessGeoffrey Swain, Geoff Swain et al.BOOKEastern Europe Since 19452009

    Substantially expanded and rewritten, this edition takes into account the momentous changes since the first edition was published in 1992. With several Central European states joining the European Uni

  • Decollectivization politics and rural change in Bulgaria, Poland and the former Czechoslovakia

    Nigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLESocial History2007Citada por: 5

    As many of the former ‘Eastern Bloc’ countries process to join the European Union, some scholars are rejecting the utility of examining common socialist legacies in favour of individual national na

  • The fog of Hungary's negotiated revolution

    Nigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2006Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

    This contribution uses the question of the presidency of the republic, the most divisive and consequential issue of Hungary's round table negotiations of 1989, to explore the process rather than the outcome of ‘negotiated revolution’. Political debate is necessarily something other than the exchange of reasoned argument. But the clear contrast between the bi-polar political divide within the Opposition Round Table (ORT) and their multifaceted and…

  • History derailed

    Open AccessNigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEThe Economic History Review2005

  • Between state capitalism and globalisation

    Open AccessNigel Swain, Nigel John SwainARTICLEThe Economic History Review2005

  • Global Easts. Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing

    Nigel Swain

    Global Easts. Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing." Europe-Asia Studies, 75(4), pp. 700–701 Additional informationNotes on contributorsNigel SwainNigel Swain, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. Email: [email protected]