Zsuzsa Gille
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 254099 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Zsuzsa Gille |
| PRENOMES | Zsuzsa |
| SOBRENOME | Gille |
| ASSINATURA | GILLE Z |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 290 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Socialocene
In this article I will present a relational, and multiscalar, perspective on how state socialism interacted with and shaped the Capitalocene. I introduce a heuristic device, the term Socialocene, a transnational waste regime dominant through the Cold War‐era, that is, during what Will Steffen and colleagues call “the great acceleration”. When extending the concept of waste beyond contamination to include squandered resources, the Socialocene emer…
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
Tibor Valuch
Article Tibor Valuch: Everyday Life Under Communism and After: Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000 was published on December 1, 2022 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 70, issue 4)
The Socialist Good Life
Un-Framing and Re-Framing the Global
While Global Studies has been pursued for research and teaching purposes for a few decades, there is little agreement on what substantiates the field. The Framing the Global project tackles this question by arguing for a renewed engagement with the empirical. It asks global scholars to step back from the analytic, to return to a space where pre-conceived methods, theories, and disciplines do not guide our findings. In this way, scholars must enga…
Globalization under and after Socialism
Changing Registers of Visibility
In recent years, growing emphasis on green economies and green capitalism have brought renewed attention to the waste practices of all places of work, including ones that are not directly linked to neither production nor waste management, such as schools, offices, and stores, as well as households, which European countries, in particular, are increasingly depicting as key sites of intervention for recycling economies. This trend represents a depa…
Of Fish Feces, Shamanic Bowls and Chimpanzee Scraps
Joshua Reno’s article is an inspiring call-out to Discard Studies. I thank him for the provocation and hope he takes my response in the spirit of a friendly polemic between fellow travelers in waste studies—which is what we are
Introduction to the Special Section
Introduction
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Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles over Food
Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud
From Risk to Waste
This article utilizes the concept of waste regimes in order to understand the global connections involved in generating food waste. This concept treats waste as a social relationship and assumes that in any economy there is a waste circulation in addition to a value circulation, and that the two are interdependent. For this reason, the author critiques metaphors, such as value chains or supply chains, that have dominated the scholarship on food a…
Fair Trade and Social Justice
Is there a Global Postsocialist Condition
This paper argues for a relational perspective in the social sciences that sees the former Second World as connected to both the former First and Third Worlds. Rather than the mono-directionality, especially between the First and Second Worlds, assumed by many modernisation and globalisation approaches, this article suggests that these “worlds” have been mutually constitutive. Making globalisation, postcolonial and postsocialist studies speak to …
The Hungarian Foie Gras Boycott
In 2008 an Austrian animal rights organization announced a boycott of Hungarian foie gras, arguing that force-feeding geese and ducks constitutes animal cruelty. The case received a lot of media attention and quickly evolved into a bitter conflict. The article scrutinizes the case as an example of postsocialist conflicts around ethics and morality and the concept of common good. The incident demonstrates not only unexpected obstacles for Hungary …
Actor Networks, Modes of Production, and Waste Regimes
The author argues for the necessity of a macro-theoretical framework for a systematic understanding of the waste-society relationship-a synthesis of the Marxist mode of production concept and the posthumanist concept of actor networks, sociomaterial assemblages, or collectives. Based on empirical data on Hungary's socialist and capitalist waste history (1948 to the present), it is shown that macro dynamics are qualitatively different from micro o…
From Nature as Proxy to Nature as Actor
What if Sheila Fitzpatrick's string-pulling, free-loadingHomo sovieticuswas compelled to enroll creatively not only his compatriots but also materials and nature in the struggles for survival? What if the fuzziness of private property in postsocialist Romania in Katherine Verdery's classic article "The Elasticity of Land," had just as much to do with meandering streams, winds, and trees dying or growing, as with the absence of proper legal or car…
From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History
A social and cultural history of waste, environmental policy, and postsocialist transition
Europeanising Hungarian Waste Policies
This contribution examines what joining the European Union implies for Hungary's waste policies and waste practices. After providing a short overview of waste policies under state socialism, I analyse the differences between the waste structure and waste practices of Hungary and the EU. Using interviews and document analysis, this contribution demonstrates that the EU has been sending mixed messages to Hungary. On the one hand, it demands prevent…
Working Difference
Global Ethnography
Globalization poses a challenge to existing social scientific methods of inquiry and units of analysis by destabilizing the embeddedness of social relations in particular communities and places. Ethnographic sites are globalized by means of various external connections across multiple spatial scales and porous and contested boundaries. Global ethnographers must begin their analysis by seeking out “place-making projects” that seek to define new ki…
Cognitive Cartography in a European Wasteland
Global Ethnography
In this follow-up to the highly successful Ethnography Unbound, Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociology, to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In contrast to the lofty debates between radical theorists, these nine studies excavate the dynamics and histories of globalization by extending out from the concrete, everyday world. The authors were participant observers in diverse stru…
Critical Ethnography in the Time of Globalization
The purpose of this article is to provide one possible answer to the question of how ethnography can remain useful in the age of globalization in which the assumption of a well-bounded site is harder to maintain than ever. The author bases the answer on the example of research, a historical study of the concept of waste involving the case study of a siting controversy around a planned waste incinerator in Hungary. The author argues that George Ma…
Global Ethnography
Globalization poses a challenge to existing social scientific methods of inquiry and units of analysis by destabilizing the embeddedness of social relations in particular communities and places. Ethnographic sites are globalized by means of various external connections across multiple spatial scales and porous and contested boundaries. Global ethnographers must begin their analysis by seeking out “place-making projects” that seek to define new ki…
Actor Networks, Modes of Production, and Waste Regimes
The author argues for the necessity of a macro-theoretical framework for a systematic understanding of the waste-society relationship-a synthesis of the Marxist mode of production concept and the posthumanist concept of actor networks, sociomaterial assemblages, or collectives. Based on empirical data on Hungary's socialist and capitalist waste history (1948 to the present), it is shown that macro dynamics are qualitatively different from micro o…
Global Ethnography
In this follow-up to the highly successful Ethnography Unbound, Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociology, to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In contrast to the lofty debates between radical theorists, these nine studies excavate the dynamics and histories of globalization by extending out from the concrete, everyday world. The authors were participant observers in diverse stru…
Is there a Global Postsocialist Condition
This paper argues for a relational perspective in the social sciences that sees the former Second World as connected to both the former First and Third Worlds. Rather than the mono-directionality, especially between the First and Second Worlds, assumed by many modernisation and globalisation approaches, this article suggests that these “worlds” have been mutually constitutive. Making globalisation, postcolonial and postsocialist studies speak to …
Critical Ethnography in the Time of Globalization
The purpose of this article is to provide one possible answer to the question of how ethnography can remain useful in the age of globalization in which the assumption of a well-bounded site is harder to maintain than ever. The author bases the answer on the example of research, a historical study of the concept of waste involving the case study of a siting controversy around a planned waste incinerator in Hungary. The author argues that George Ma…
Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud
From Risk to Waste
This article utilizes the concept of waste regimes in order to understand the global connections involved in generating food waste. This concept treats waste as a social relationship and assumes that in any economy there is a waste circulation in addition to a value circulation, and that the two are interdependent. For this reason, the author critiques metaphors, such as value chains or supply chains, that have dominated the scholarship on food a…
Globalization under and after Socialism
The Hungarian Foie Gras Boycott
In 2008 an Austrian animal rights organization announced a boycott of Hungarian foie gras, arguing that force-feeding geese and ducks constitutes animal cruelty. The case received a lot of media attention and quickly evolved into a bitter conflict. The article scrutinizes the case as an example of postsocialist conflicts around ethics and morality and the concept of common good. The incident demonstrates not only unexpected obstacles for Hungary …
From Nature as Proxy to Nature as Actor
What if Sheila Fitzpatrick's string-pulling, free-loadingHomo sovieticuswas compelled to enroll creatively not only his compatriots but also materials and nature in the struggles for survival? What if the fuzziness of private property in postsocialist Romania in Katherine Verdery's classic article "The Elasticity of Land," had just as much to do with meandering streams, winds, and trees dying or growing, as with the absence of proper legal or car…
Transitional economies
In recent decades in the most developed countries, new approaches to environmental problems, including industrial ecology and ecological modernisation, have become prevalent. Based on interviews and archival research, this analysis argues that during state socialism Hungary had already instituted a production‐centred, preventative approach to industrial wastes akin to industrial ecology. Ironically, after the collapse of state socialism, instead …
Two pairs of women's boots for a hectare of land
Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles over Food
The Socialocene
In this article I will present a relational, and multiscalar, perspective on how state socialism interacted with and shaped the Capitalocene. I introduce a heuristic device, the term Socialocene, a transnational waste regime dominant through the Cold War‐era, that is, during what Will Steffen and colleagues call “the great acceleration”. When extending the concept of waste beyond contamination to include squandered resources, the Socialocene emer…
Europeanising Hungarian Waste Policies
This contribution examines what joining the European Union implies for Hungary's waste policies and waste practices. After providing a short overview of waste policies under state socialism, I analyse the differences between the waste structure and waste practices of Hungary and the EU. Using interviews and document analysis, this contribution demonstrates that the EU has been sending mixed messages to Hungary. On the one hand, it demands prevent…
Introduction
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Fair Trade and Social Justice
Book notes
Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar: Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood . Boston: South End Press, 1994. Mary Richardson, Joan Sherman and Michael Gismondi: Winning Back the Words: Confronting Experts in an Environmental Public Hearing . Toronto: Garamond Press, 1993. Joan Nordquist: Multinational Corporations and the Environment: A Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1994, 68p
Two pairs of women's boots for a hectare of land
Transitional economies
In recent decades in the most developed countries, new approaches to environmental problems, including industrial ecology and ecological modernisation, have become prevalent. Based on interviews and archival research, this analysis argues that during state socialism Hungary had already instituted a production‐centred, preventative approach to industrial wastes akin to industrial ecology. Ironically, after the collapse of state socialism, instead …
Cognitive Cartography in a European Wasteland
Global Ethnography
In this follow-up to the highly successful Ethnography Unbound, Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociology, to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In contrast to the lofty debates between radical theorists, these nine studies excavate the dynamics and histories of globalization by extending out from the concrete, everyday world. The authors were participant observers in diverse stru…
Critical Ethnography in the Time of Globalization
The purpose of this article is to provide one possible answer to the question of how ethnography can remain useful in the age of globalization in which the assumption of a well-bounded site is harder to maintain than ever. The author bases the answer on the example of research, a historical study of the concept of waste involving the case study of a siting controversy around a planned waste incinerator in Hungary. The author argues that George Ma…
Global Ethnography
Globalization poses a challenge to existing social scientific methods of inquiry and units of analysis by destabilizing the embeddedness of social relations in particular communities and places. Ethnographic sites are globalized by means of various external connections across multiple spatial scales and porous and contested boundaries. Global ethnographers must begin their analysis by seeking out “place-making projects” that seek to define new ki…
Europeanising Hungarian Waste Policies
This contribution examines what joining the European Union implies for Hungary's waste policies and waste practices. After providing a short overview of waste policies under state socialism, I analyse the differences between the waste structure and waste practices of Hungary and the EU. Using interviews and document analysis, this contribution demonstrates that the EU has been sending mixed messages to Hungary. On the one hand, it demands prevent…
Working Difference
From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History
A social and cultural history of waste, environmental policy, and postsocialist transition
From Nature as Proxy to Nature as Actor
What if Sheila Fitzpatrick's string-pulling, free-loadingHomo sovieticuswas compelled to enroll creatively not only his compatriots but also materials and nature in the struggles for survival? What if the fuzziness of private property in postsocialist Romania in Katherine Verdery's classic article "The Elasticity of Land," had just as much to do with meandering streams, winds, and trees dying or growing, as with the absence of proper legal or car…
Is there a Global Postsocialist Condition
This paper argues for a relational perspective in the social sciences that sees the former Second World as connected to both the former First and Third Worlds. Rather than the mono-directionality, especially between the First and Second Worlds, assumed by many modernisation and globalisation approaches, this article suggests that these “worlds” have been mutually constitutive. Making globalisation, postcolonial and postsocialist studies speak to …
The Hungarian Foie Gras Boycott
In 2008 an Austrian animal rights organization announced a boycott of Hungarian foie gras, arguing that force-feeding geese and ducks constitutes animal cruelty. The case received a lot of media attention and quickly evolved into a bitter conflict. The article scrutinizes the case as an example of postsocialist conflicts around ethics and morality and the concept of common good. The incident demonstrates not only unexpected obstacles for Hungary …
Actor Networks, Modes of Production, and Waste Regimes
The author argues for the necessity of a macro-theoretical framework for a systematic understanding of the waste-society relationship-a synthesis of the Marxist mode of production concept and the posthumanist concept of actor networks, sociomaterial assemblages, or collectives. Based on empirical data on Hungary's socialist and capitalist waste history (1948 to the present), it is shown that macro dynamics are qualitatively different from micro o…
Fair Trade and Social Justice
From Risk to Waste
This article utilizes the concept of waste regimes in order to understand the global connections involved in generating food waste. This concept treats waste as a social relationship and assumes that in any economy there is a waste circulation in addition to a value circulation, and that the two are interdependent. For this reason, the author critiques metaphors, such as value chains or supply chains, that have dominated the scholarship on food a…
Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud
Introduction to the Special Section
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles over Food
Of Fish Feces, Shamanic Bowls and Chimpanzee Scraps
Joshua Reno’s article is an inspiring call-out to Discard Studies. I thank him for the provocation and hope he takes my response in the spirit of a friendly polemic between fellow travelers in waste studies—which is what we are
Changing Registers of Visibility
In recent years, growing emphasis on green economies and green capitalism have brought renewed attention to the waste practices of all places of work, including ones that are not directly linked to neither production nor waste management, such as schools, offices, and stores, as well as households, which European countries, in particular, are increasingly depicting as key sites of intervention for recycling economies. This trend represents a depa…
The Socialist Good Life
Un-Framing and Re-Framing the Global
While Global Studies has been pursued for research and teaching purposes for a few decades, there is little agreement on what substantiates the field. The Framing the Global project tackles this question by arguing for a renewed engagement with the empirical. It asks global scholars to step back from the analytic, to return to a space where pre-conceived methods, theories, and disciplines do not guide our findings. In this way, scholars must enga…
Globalization under and after Socialism
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