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- Czirfusz, Marton, et al.
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Labor, Financialization of Housing and the Re-Scaling State in Hungarian Second-Tier Cities
- 2018
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Ingår i: Fifth Global Conference on Economic Geography, 24-28 July 2018, Cologne, Germany.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Global cycles of capital accumulation are driving uneven development on various spatial scales. Our paper addresses how this process is articulated in Hungary. We focus on the points of juncture between the new spatial divisions of labour resulting from the post-crisis global industrial relocation, the financialisation of housing, and the way the state mediates capital-labour relations. Geographically, we focus on second-tier cities in Hungary defined as intermediate spaces in uneven national accumulation processes. We apply the concept of ‘intermediate spaces’ to various aspects. First, in the production process, entreprises located in these cities are typically in lower hierarchical positions in global supply chains, employing a larger share of unskilled labour. Fluctuations in the production process result in a larger pool of the industrial reserve army, or more precarious employment relations in segmented local labour markets, as well as more profound out-migration processes. Second, second-tier cities are spaces where the housing market fluctuates the most, according to the availability of housing credit and of related state subsidies to homeownership. In these places the volatility of housing financialization can best be grasped. Labour market intermediaries increasingly link the aspect of labour and housing by investing into real estate, in order to offer a place of living for their employees, and to invest surplus capital. Third, the rescaling state mediates between global and local forces. On the one hand, public policies mobilize and discipline the reserve army by a mix of interventions into housing, labour market, and policing. On the other, the state incorporates the sometimes colliding interests of domestic and international fractions of capital in its ongoing negotiations in the accumulation process. Moreover, the shift in the international arena from predominantly Western industrial interests to more diverse fractions pushes the state to operate in a new intersection of global dependencies.
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- Czirfusz, Marton, et al.
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Reindustrialisation, financialisation and the role of state in Hungarian uneven development
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Ingår i: 4th The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism Conference, 29-30 November, Budapest.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The paper looks at main aspects of how the rescaling state mediates between global and local forces in contemporary Hungary. Public policies mobilize and discipline the reserve army by a mix of interventions into housing, labour market, and policing. Meanwhile, active reorganizations of labour, education and taxation policies serve domestic and international fractions of capital, in a context of reindustrialization driven by Western industries relocating in the region.
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- Florea, Ioana, 1981, et al.
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A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and Budapest
- 2018
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Ingår i: Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0957-8765 .- 1573-7888. ; 29:4, s. 712-724
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2018 The Author(s) The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality as well as ideological conflicts. Moreover, conceiving of a structurally produced field of contention can help explain the differences in housing contention in the two cities. The analysis situates housing movements and their allied, parallel, or opposing actors within the long-term processes of urbanization and global dynamics of commodification, including housing financialization. It demonstrates that to understand how structural and political factors interact in a complex field of contention, attention to processes beyond short-term local movements is necessary.
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- Florea, Ioana, 1981, et al.
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A structural view on housing movements : Strategic lessons from a field of contention approach
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Ingår i: Radical Housing Journal. ; 6:1, s. 105-123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we share strategic lessons from applying a ‘structural field of contention’ approach to a comparative study of housing struggles in Hungary and Romania since 1989. The aim is not to highlight details and specificities, but to show the benefits of looking beyond individual progressive movements in focus of most previous literature, instead capturing the ideological and structural complexity of housing contention, with different positions on the political spectrum, in an integrated way. With such analytical approach, we can grasp the broader field of relations where various answers to the same structural processes are generated and interact with each other in a dynamic way. In this way, a strategically informative view on how structural processes become politicized can be gained for both housing struggles and engaged research.
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- Florea, Ioana, 1981, et al.
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Antagonism and Solidarity in Housing Movements in Bucharest and Budapest: A Field of Contention Approach
- 2018
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Ingår i: Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the ‚Good’ and Proper Life in Cities, 17-19 January, Munich, Germany.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We investigate housing contention in Bucharest and Budapest, in the context of post-socialist and post-crisis economic development, to see how such economic and political conditions shape opportunities and constraints for movement-building and alliances. Our main argument is that structural aspects of housing relations are relevant in understanding the alliances, solidarities, antagonisms and conflicts in the field of housing contention. Moreover, they are relevant in understanding the political-ideological positions of different actors of urban social movements.
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