K Szombati
Biographic Data
| ID | 45732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Szombati |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Szombati |
| SIGNATURE | SZOMBATI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7427-6769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How the Churches Serve the State: Two-Nations Populism, Loving Segregation, and Pastoral Power on the Social Margins in Hungary
This paper examines an overlooked dimension of right-wing statecraft in Europe: the incorporation of Christian churches into the Hungarian illiberal regime’s hegemonic project. Drawing on Gramscian and Foucauldian perspectives, it offers a political-economic account of how religious actors both bolster the ideological foundations of illiberal rule and assume quasi-governmental functions in the management of racialized poverty. Whereas dominant ch…
Placing anthropology at the forefront: Studying far‐right transformism
When we examine the global political landscape, the far-right is clearly in a less favourable situation than it was prior to the pandemic. Trump lost the presidency, and it is difficult to see Bolsonaro being re-elected. Key far-right parties in Europe – such as the Lega and AfD – have dipped in the polls and establishment parties have reclaimed some lost ground. Putin is facing increasing discontent and Erdoğan has been battling a series of cris…
The Consolidation of Authoritarian Rule in Rural Hungary: Workfare and the Shift from Punitive Populist to Illiberal Paternalist Poverty Governance
This essay analyses the consolidation of authoritarian rule in Hungary by focusing attention on the ruling party’s workfare programme, which has become the cornerstone of rural poverty governance. It is argued, on the basis of ethnographic research carried out by the author and the secondary literature, that workfare successfully tamed the angry politics born out of the dislocations caused by neoliberal restructuring. It consolidated post-peasant…
From neoliberal disembedding to authoritarian re-embedding: The making of illiberal hegemony in Hungary
This article presents and empirically substantiates a theoretical account explaining the making and stabilisation of illiberal hegemony in Hungary. It combines a Polanyian institutionalist framework with a neo-Gramscian analysis of right-wing hegemonic strategy and a relational class analysis inspired by the political economy tradition in anthropology. The article identifies the social actors behind the illiberal transformation, showing how 'neol…
The Revolt of the Provinces: Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary
Understanding the rise of the far right from a local perspective: Structural and cultural conditions of ethno-traditionalist inclusion and racial exclusion in rural Hungary
Author: Feischmidt, Margit et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2017; Title: Understanding the rise of the far right from a local perspective: structural and cultural conditions of ethno-traditionalist inclusion and racial exclusion in rural Hungary
From neoliberal disembedding to authoritarian re-embedding: The making of illiberal hegemony in Hungary
This article presents and empirically substantiates a theoretical account explaining the making and stabilisation of illiberal hegemony in Hungary. It combines a Polanyian institutionalist framework with a neo-Gramscian analysis of right-wing hegemonic strategy and a relational class analysis inspired by the political economy tradition in anthropology. The article identifies the social actors behind the illiberal transformation, showing how 'neol…
The Consolidation of Authoritarian Rule in Rural Hungary: Workfare and the Shift from Punitive Populist to Illiberal Paternalist Poverty Governance
This essay analyses the consolidation of authoritarian rule in Hungary by focusing attention on the ruling party’s workfare programme, which has become the cornerstone of rural poverty governance. It is argued, on the basis of ethnographic research carried out by the author and the secondary literature, that workfare successfully tamed the angry politics born out of the dislocations caused by neoliberal restructuring. It consolidated post-peasant…
How the Churches Serve the State: Two-Nations Populism, Loving Segregation, and Pastoral Power on the Social Margins in Hungary
This paper examines an overlooked dimension of right-wing statecraft in Europe: the incorporation of Christian churches into the Hungarian illiberal regime’s hegemonic project. Drawing on Gramscian and Foucauldian perspectives, it offers a political-economic account of how religious actors both bolster the ideological foundations of illiberal rule and assume quasi-governmental functions in the management of racialized poverty. Whereas dominant ch…
Understanding the rise of the far right from a local perspective: Structural and cultural conditions of ethno-traditionalist inclusion and racial exclusion in rural Hungary
Author: Feischmidt, Margit et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2017; Title: Understanding the rise of the far right from a local perspective: structural and cultural conditions of ethno-traditionalist inclusion and racial exclusion in rural Hungary
The Revolt of the Provinces: Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary
From neoliberal disembedding to authoritarian re-embedding: The making of illiberal hegemony in Hungary
This article presents and empirically substantiates a theoretical account explaining the making and stabilisation of illiberal hegemony in Hungary. It combines a Polanyian institutionalist framework with a neo-Gramscian analysis of right-wing hegemonic strategy and a relational class analysis inspired by the political economy tradition in anthropology. The article identifies the social actors behind the illiberal transformation, showing how 'neol…
Placing anthropology at the forefront: Studying far‐right transformism
When we examine the global political landscape, the far-right is clearly in a less favourable situation than it was prior to the pandemic. Trump lost the presidency, and it is difficult to see Bolsonaro being re-elected. Key far-right parties in Europe – such as the Lega and AfD – have dipped in the polls and establishment parties have reclaimed some lost ground. Putin is facing increasing discontent and Erdoğan has been battling a series of cris…
The Consolidation of Authoritarian Rule in Rural Hungary: Workfare and the Shift from Punitive Populist to Illiberal Paternalist Poverty Governance
This essay analyses the consolidation of authoritarian rule in Hungary by focusing attention on the ruling party’s workfare programme, which has become the cornerstone of rural poverty governance. It is argued, on the basis of ethnographic research carried out by the author and the secondary literature, that workfare successfully tamed the angry politics born out of the dislocations caused by neoliberal restructuring. It consolidated post-peasant…
How the Churches Serve the State: Two-Nations Populism, Loving Segregation, and Pastoral Power on the Social Margins in Hungary
This paper examines an overlooked dimension of right-wing statecraft in Europe: the incorporation of Christian churches into the Hungarian illiberal regime’s hegemonic project. Drawing on Gramscian and Foucauldian perspectives, it offers a political-economic account of how religious actors both bolster the ideological foundations of illiberal rule and assume quasi-governmental functions in the management of racialized poverty. Whereas dominant ch…
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