ENSn4684 Society, economy and landscape in 20-21th century Central Europe

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2025
Rozsah
0/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Judit Farkas, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Gébor Maté (přednášející)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D.
Katedra environmentálních studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Kateřina Hendrychová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra environmentálních studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Čt 6. 3. 10:00–15:40 P24a, Pá 7. 3. 10:00–15:40 U53, Pá 14. 3. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 21. 3. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 28. 3. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 4. 4. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 11. 4. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno, Pá 25. 4. 10:00–11:40 bude_upresneno
Předpoklady
TYP_STUDIA(N)
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The course will overview the history of agriculture and rural society from the socialist era to contemporary processes. We will discuss this topic from a Central European perspective, focusing on case studies from Hungarian rural history and to a lesser extent adjacent countries (Romania, Slovenia). Students will learn about the role of ideologies and policies of the socialist and post-socialist eras and the effect of politics on rural societies. The course will also discuss various theories in connection with the landscape and the basic paradigms developed by social sciences to interpret the complex reality of rural areas in the socialist era and the post-socialist change of the countryside. Besides basic theoretical questions, it demonstrates several examples (Hungarian, Central-European) of landscape change and their effects on communities. In the second half of the course, they will also learn about contemporary processes in rural areas, including the changing agri-food sector and the consumption turn of rural society and its effects on the landscape. We will also discuss the dilemmas of integrated rural development and the possible role of social sciences in this field of expertise. In connection with contemporary issues, students will also learn about various development methods, from modernist, top-down approaches to participatory practices, the concept of new governance, and integrated rural development based on local knowledge and resources. They will also learn about the New Rural Paradigm and the policies it has produced. A special emphasis is put on the agri-food and biotechnology sectors' role in development policies. Besides showing students „good” and „bad” practices in development, the course also introduces them to the social scientific study of development practices.
Výstupy z učení
After completing the course, students will be:
● able to identify the relevant questions and paradigms of historical and cultural approaches of landscape change;
● able to understand the role of policies and ideologies in the formation of rural society, economy and the landscape in Central European context;
● have a critical approach to contemporary rural development processes and can apply the model of integrated rural development in their own work;
● able to work with various sources and to match historical and present-day phenomena and trends;
able to conduct on their own qualitative research based on written sources
● able to get acquainted with the topics of the course independently and to deepen their knowledge in the topics and methodologies
● aware of the most important literature on the topic
Osnova
  • I. Changes in the land in Hungary since the II. WW. (Concepts, methods) - rural history, environmental history, landscape theorie
  • II. Approaches and examples
  • III. Agrarian landscapes of the interwar period, the „proper peasantry”, struggles for field property
  • IV. Socialist farms (kolkhozes), mines, factories, changing resource pattern, socialist “development’
  • V. Agriculture and society in the socialist era. Politics, ideologies and everyday practices. Theoretical approaches and local case-studies.
  • VI. The post-socialist transition of agriculture and rural society - from the productive rurality to the “consumption countryside”
  • VII. Contemporary processes in agriculture and food production
  • VIII. Contemporary processes in rural society, the challenges of rural development in Central Europe
  • IX. Depopulation and repopulation in the countryside. Case studies.
  • X. The post-socialist transition of agriculture and rural society: radical rurality.
  • XI-XIII. Student presentations
Literatura
    doporučená literatura
  • Howard, Peter — Thompson, Ian — Waterton, Emma — Atha, Mick (eds.) 2013. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. London — New York, Routledge.
  • Fendrychová, Lenka – Jehlička, Petr 2018. Revealing the hidden geography of alternative food networks: The travelling concept of farmers’ markets. Geoforum 95, 1–10.
  • Nemes, Gusztáv – Tomay, Kyra 2022. Split Realities – Dilemmas for Rural/Gastro Tourism in Territorial Development. Regional Studies 1–10.
  • Bilewicz, Alexandra – Śpiewak, Ruta 2015. Enclaves of Activism and Taste: Consumer Cooperatives in Poland as Alternative Food Networks. Socio.hu 145–166.
  • Halfacree, Keith 2003. Landscapes of rurality: rural others=other rurals. In Roberston, I. – Richards, P. (eds.): Studying Cultural Landscapes. London, Arnold, 141−69.
  • Nistor, Laura 2015. Discourses About the Meaning of the Local Food. Socio.hu Special issue in English (3) 128–143.
  • Balázs Bálint 2012. Local Food System Development in Hungary. International Journal of Sciology of Agriculture and Food 19 (3), 403–421.
  • Farkas, Judit eds. Environmental Issues – Community Answers. Environmental Humanities Reader. L’Harmattan, Budapest. https://openaccess.hu/resolve?urn=urn:022_000083
  • Halfacree, Keith 2001. Going ‘back-to-the-land’ again: extending the scope of counterurbanisation. Espace, Populations, Societes 1−2: 161–170.
  • Swain, Nigel 2013. Green Barons, Force-of-Circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors. Rural Change in the Early Years of Post-Socialist Capitalist Democracy. CeuPress, Budapest.
  • Nistor, Laura 2015. Discourses About the Meaning of the Local Food. Socio.hu Special issue in English (3) 128–143.
  • Halfacree, Keith 2007. Trial by space for a ‘radical rural’: Introducing alternative localities, representations and lives. Journal of Rural Studies, 23: 125–141.
  • Jóvér, Vanda 2023. A new way to understand urban-rural relations: Habitus studies of rural places. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin 72 (1), 75–85.
  • Gerőcs Tamás – Vigvári András 2017. The Concept of ’Peasant Embourgeoisement’ in the Perspective of Different Historical Conjunctures. Studia UBB Sociologia 62 (1), 85–104.
  • Bartulović, Alenka 2022. When a city girl moves to the countryside. Coping strategies of (new) women farmers in Slovenia. In: Bartulović, Alenka – Máté Gábor (szerk.): Rethinking Urban-Rural Relations/Migrations in Central-Europe. The Case of Slovenia an
  • Máté, Gábor - Moric, Anja: Dehumanizing and Rehumanizing the Countryside. In: Bartulović, A., & Máté, G. (2023). Rethinking Urban-Rural Relations/Migrations in Central-Europe - Full volume: The Case of Slovenia and Hungary . PNEKAT Working Papers, (3). 5
  • Varga, Zsuzsanna - The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle? Sovietization and Americanization in a Communist Country. Lanham - Boulder - New York - London: Lexington Books.
  • Trial by space for a ‘radical rural’: Introducing alternative localities, representations and lives.
  • JEHLIČKA, Petr, Mikelis GRIVINS, Oane VISSER a Balint BALAZS. Thinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systems. Journal of Rural Studies. Oxford: Elsevier, 2020, roč. 76, MAY 2020, s. 286-295. ISSN 0743-0167. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.04.015. URL info
  • EMMETT, Robert S. a David E. NYE. The environmental humanities : a critical introduction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT press, 2017, viii, 236. ISBN 9780262036764. info
Výukové metody
Lectures (online or offline), group discussions
Metody hodnocení
Making a short essay (20.000 characters), visual documentation or film in group work. Presenting the outcome during the last 3 lectures by the student working groups.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
  • Statistika zápisu (nejnovější)
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