Nigel Swain
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 283132 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nigel Swain |
| PRENOMES | Nigel |
| SOBRENOME | Swain |
| ASSINATURA | SWAIN N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2467-5796 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 108 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Workfare Schemes as a Tool For Preventing the Further Impoverishment of the Rural Poor
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
Group singing improves both physical and psychological wellbeing in people with and without chronic health conditions
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
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
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
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
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
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
A qualitative study of pain experiences in patients requiring hip and knee arthroplasty
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
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
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
Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary." Social History, 40(1), pp. 132–133
Socialist Escapes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Between state capitalism and globalisation
Global Easts. Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing
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]
Hungary
Collective Farms Which Work
Journal Article Collective Farms Which Work? Get access Collective Farms Which Work? By NIGEL SWAIN. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x + 235. £25.00 hardback.) Paul Hare Paul Hare Heriot-Watt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 381, 1 March 1986, Pages 259–261, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233459 Published: 01 March 1986
Social Capital and its Uses
The article attempts to assess the use and usefulness of the concept of 'social capital'. First, it assesses its differing conceptual uses in the works of four key writers, Pierre Bourdieu, Gary S. Becker, James S. Coleman and Robert D. Putnam, identifying broadly a problematic 'social capital as social fact' perspective associated with Putnam, and a more promising 'contacts with influential people' approach that can be derived from Bourdieu. It …
Hungary
Why did Hungarian socialism - the most innovative in the Eastern Europe - fade away so easily? Why were Hungarians, including those who would be considered radical in the West, happy to see the introduction of a market economy? Why was there no real opposition to the dismantling of socialist achievements like universal free education and health care? Nigel Swain's topical book answers these questions through one of the most thorough analyses to d…
Socialist Escapes
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
From Kolkhoz to Holding Company
This paper uses a case study, the Noble Grape co-operative (a pseudonym), to illustrate the roles of social and cultural capital in both the creation of a successful agricultural producer co-operative (collective farm) in socialist Hungary and its transformation into a successful private company after 1989. It identifies both continuities in personnel, from socialist technocrat to capitalist manager, and continuities in the financial establishmen…
A Post-Socialist Capitalism
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
Eastern European Rurality in a Neo‐Liberal, European Union World
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…
Taking personal responsibility for well-being increases birth satisfaction of first time mothers
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 …
Decollectivization politics and rural change in Bulgaria, Poland and the former Czechoslovakia
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
Socialist entrepreneurs
Journal Article Socialist entrepreneurs: embourgeoisement in rural Hungary Get access Socialist entrepreneurs: embourgeoisement in rural Hungary. By Iván Szelényiet al. . Oxford: Polity/Blackwell. 1988. 260pp. Index. Pb.: £8.95. ISBN 0 7456 0461 7. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Pages 558–559, https://…
Agricultural Restitution and Co-operative Transformation in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia
THE STARTING POINT FOR AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION in Central and Eastern Europe was moulded by two features of socialist agriculture. First, socialist agriculture was everywhere a combination of large-scale socialist (state or collective) and small-scale private (mainly part-time and self-supply-oriented) farming, whose proportions were not everywhere the same. Second, the main reason why these combinations of large-scale and small-scale farming dif…
Post-communist transition
Agriculture 'East of the Elbe' and the Common Agricultural Policy
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…
Hungary
Journal Article Hungary: the politics of transition Get access Hungary: the politics of transition. Edited by Cox Terryand Andy Furlong. London: Cass. 1995. 196pp. Pb.: £20.00. ISBN 0 7146 4167 7. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 4, October 1995, Page 885, https://doi.org/10.2307/2625177 Published: 01 October 1995
Party Politics, Political Competition and Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Hungary
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 …
The fog of Hungary's negotiated revolution
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…
Parties, trade unions and society in east-central Europe
Journal Article Parties, trade unions and society in east-central Europe Get access Parties, trade unions and society in east-central Europe. Edited By Michael Wallerand Martin Myant. London: Cass. 1994. 184pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 7146 4583 4. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 410–411, https://doi.…
Hungarian agriculture in the early 1980s
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming
Urban and Industrial Everyday Life under Socialism and Post-Socialism
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 …
Hungary
Collective Farms Which Work
Journal Article Collective Farms Which Work? Get access Collective Farms Which Work? By NIGEL SWAIN. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x + 235. £25.00 hardback.) Paul Hare Paul Hare Heriot-Watt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 381, 1 March 1986, Pages 259–261, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233459 Published: 01 March 1986
A Village Without Solidarity
Hungarian agriculture in the early 1980s
The Food Revolution in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Collective Farms Which Work
Hungary’s Socialist Project in Crisis
By the early summer of 1989 Hungary had become a de facto multi-party system, albeit still within a one-party structure. Numerous political forces operated openly, experiencing minimal official harassment, with meaningful if unequal access to the media. Virtually all significant actors, including the reform wing of the Hungarian
Socialist entrepreneurs
Journal Article Socialist entrepreneurs: embourgeoisement in rural Hungary Get access Socialist entrepreneurs: embourgeoisement in rural Hungary. By Iván Szelényiet al. . Oxford: Polity/Blackwell. 1988. 260pp. Index. Pb.: £8.95. ISBN 0 7456 0461 7. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Pages 558–559, https://…
Economic reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the 1960s
Remaking the economic institutions of socialism
Journal Article Remaking the economic institutions of socialism: China and Eastern Europe, Market reforms in socialist societies: comparing China and Hungary and The Hungarian model: markets and planning in a socialist economy Get access Remaking the economic institutions of socialism: China and Eastern Europe. Edited by Victor Nee and David Stark. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1989. 405pp. Index. $48.50; ISBN 0 8047 1494 0. Pb.: $13.9…
The Hungarian economic reforms, 1953–88
Journal Article The Hungarian economic reforms, 1953–88 Get access The Hungarian economic reforms, 1953–88. By Ivan T. Berend. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. 343pp. Index. £40.00. ISBN 0 521 38037 5. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 2, April 1991, Page 365, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620907 Published: 01 Apr…
From Yalta to glasnost
Journal Article From Yalta to glasnost: the dismantling of Stalin's empire Get access From Yalta to glasnost: the dismantling of Stalin’s empire. By Agnes Hellerand Ferenc Fehér. Oxford: Blackwell. 1990. 288pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 631 17772 8. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 1992, Pages 166–167, https://do…
Restructuring Eastern Europe
Journal Article Restructuring Eastern Europe: towards a new European order Get access Restructuring Eastern Europe: towards a new European order. By Ronald J. Hill and Jan Zielonka. Aldershot, Hants: Edward Elgar. 1990. 226pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 1 85278 37 7. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 1992, Page 180, …
Hungary
Why did Hungarian socialism - the most innovative in the Eastern Europe - fade away so easily? Why were Hungarians, including those who would be considered radical in the West, happy to see the introduction of a market economy? Why was there no real opposition to the dismantling of socialist achievements like universal free education and health care? Nigel Swain's topical book answers these questions through one of the most thorough analyses to d…
Making markets
Journal Article Making markets: economic transformation in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet states Get access Making markets: economic transformation in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet states. Edited by Shafiqul Islamand Michael Mandelbaum. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press. 1993. 238pp. Index. Pb.: $14.95. ISBN 0 87609 129 x. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Post-communist transition
Post-Communist Transition
A History of Hungary . Peter F. Sugar , Peter Hanak
Hungary
Journal Article Hungary: the politics of transition Get access Hungary: the politics of transition. Edited by Cox Terryand Andy Furlong. London: Cass. 1995. 196pp. Pb.: £20.00. ISBN 0 7146 4167 7. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 4, October 1995, Page 885, https://doi.org/10.2307/2625177 Published: 01 October 1995
Parties, trade unions and society in east-central Europe
Journal Article Parties, trade unions and society in east-central Europe Get access Parties, trade unions and society in east-central Europe. Edited By Michael Wallerand Martin Myant. London: Cass. 1994. 184pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 7146 4583 4. Nigel Swain Nigel Swain 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 410–411, https://doi.…
Rural Employment and Rural Regeneration in Central Europe
Agricultural Restitution and Co-operative Transformation in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia
THE STARTING POINT FOR AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION in Central and Eastern Europe was moulded by two features of socialist agriculture. First, socialist agriculture was everywhere a combination of large-scale socialist (state or collective) and small-scale private (mainly part-time and self-supply-oriented) farming, whose proportions were not everywhere the same. Second, the main reason why these combinations of large-scale and small-scale farming dif…
From Kolkhoz to Holding Company
This paper uses a case study, the Noble Grape co-operative (a pseudonym), to illustrate the roles of social and cultural capital in both the creation of a successful agricultural producer co-operative (collective farm) in socialist Hungary and its transformation into a successful private company after 1989. It identifies both continuities in personnel, from socialist technocrat to capitalist manager, and continuities in the financial establishmen…
Unfinished Socialism
Journal Article Unfinished Socialism: Pictures from the Kádár Era Get access Nigel Swain Nigel Swain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 473, September 2002, Pages 1039–1040, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.473.1039 Published: 01 September 2002
Social Capital and its Uses
The article attempts to assess the use and usefulness of the concept of 'social capital'. First, it assesses its differing conceptual uses in the works of four key writers, Pierre Bourdieu, Gary S. Becker, James S. Coleman and Robert D. Putnam, identifying broadly a problematic 'social capital as social fact' perspective associated with Putnam, and a more promising 'contacts with influential people' approach that can be derived from Bourdieu. It …
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