Surveillance and state-making through EU agricultural policy in Hungary |
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| Institution: | 1. TESAF Department, University of Padova, Viale dell’Università, 16 – 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy;2. Land Environment Resources and Health (LERH) PhD Program – Land Environment Agriculture and Forestry (LEAF) Department, University of Padova, Viale dell’Università, 16 – 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy;1. Szent István University, Institute for Natural Resources Conservation, Páter Károly u. 1., H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary;2. Kiskunság National Park Directorate, Liszt F. u. 19, H-6000, Kecskemét, Hungary;3. Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group, Alkotmány u. 2-4, H-2163, Vácrátót, Hungary;4. Community-Based Research for Sustainability Association, Radnóti u. 20, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary;5. University of Szeged, Department of Ecology, Középfasor 52, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary;6. University of Szeged, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Research Center, Kálvária sgt. 1, H- 6722, Szeged, Hungary;1. Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy;2. Dipartimento di Agraria and Nucleo di Ricerca sulla Desertificazione, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Viale Italia 39, 07100 Sassari, Italy |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores how the implementation of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and agri-environment measures in particular have been used to increase state oversight into rural affairs and land use in Hungary. The governmentalities of the agricultural sector through Europeanisation include stringent inspections and controls as part and parcel of accountability drives around the disbursement of subsidies. Agricultural surveillance mechanisms and processes are recounted here as holistic, perpetual and immediate, composed of the remote, administrative, as well as embodied physical encounters. Through ethnographic engagement with the Hungarian state’s interactions with its farmers during inspections, the forms and consequences of neoliberal governmentality are given life in a post-socialist context. I elucidate the numerous subjectivities involved in these encounters, and how bureaucratic and administrative requirements underlie the rise of private consultants, where social capital and informal networks are of great importance for the successful navigation of the agricultural system. On the part of farmers, subsidies’ accountability systems were lived as unjust, giving rise to speculation around the ‘real’ intended purposes of agri-environment legislation, which in turn undermines the expert authority of the state and heightens skepticism towards the European ‘project’. |
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| Keywords: | Agriculture Europeanisation Governmentality Surveillance Post-socialism Hungary |
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