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urn:uuid:773bfb1f-565d-4481-af24-ed882c584d64 03 01 01 urn:uuid:773bfb1f-565d-4481-af24-ed882c584d64 15 9781800641341 06 10.11647/OBP.0244 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe 1 B01 21 0000-0003-3516-7786 Eszter Krasznai Kovacs 01 eng 00 342 03 04 DJK51 20 East Europe B2 Environmental Studies 10 NAT010000 12 RNKC 10 NAT011000 B2 Politics and Sociology 12 RNKH 20 West Europe 20 Environment B2 European Studies 12 RND 10 SCI026000 B2 European Studies: Eastern European Studies 20 Political ecology 20 Environmentalism 03 00 <p>Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include increasingly authoritarian forms of government that threaten the operations and very existence of civil society groups; the importation of locally-contested conservation and environmental programmes that were designed elsewhere; and a resurgence in cultural nationalism that prescribes and normalises exclusionary nation-building myths.</p><p>This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe. Engaging with the critical tools of political ecology, its contributors provide a hitherto overlooked perspective on the current fate and reception of ‘environmentalism’ in the region. It asks how emergent forms of environmentalism have been received, how these movements and perspectives have redefined landscapes, and what the subtler effects of new regulatory regimes on communities and environment-dependent livelihoods have been.</p><p>Arranged in three sections, with case studies from Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Serbia, this collection develops anthropological views on the processes and consequences of the politicisation of the environment. It is valuable reading for human geographers, social and cultural historians, political ecologists, social movement and government scholars, political scientists, and specialists on Europe and European Union politics.</p> 04 00 Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Political Ecology in Eastern Europe Eszter Krasznai Kovacs Part I 1. The Dismantling of Environmentalism in Hungary Eszter Krasznai Kovacs and György Pataki 2. The Making of the Environmental and Climate Justice Movements in the Czech Republic Arnošt Novák 3. The Construction of Climate Justice Imaginaries through Resistance in the Czech Republic and Poland Mikulás Černìk 4. Gaps of Warsaw: Urban Environmentalism through Green Interstices Jana Hrckova Part II 5. Far-right Grassroots Environmental Activism in Poland and the Blurry Lines of ‘Acceptable’ Environmentalisms Balsa Lubarda 6. Contorted Naturalisms: The Concept of Romanian Nationalist Mountains Alexandra Coțofană 7. A (Hi)Story of Dwelling in a (Post)Mining Town in Romania Imola Püsök Part III 8. The Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies of Wild Nature Conservation in Romania George Iordăchescu 9. Domesticating the Taste of Place: Post-Socialist Terroir and Policy Landscapes in Tokaj, Hungary June Brawner 10. A Geographical Political Ecology of Eastern European Food Systems Renata Blumberg 11. What is Not Known about Rural Development? Village Experiences from Serbia Jovana Dikovic 12. Failure to Hive. A Co-narrated Story of a Failed Social Co-operative from the Hungarian Countryside Éva Mihalovics and Zsüli Fehér Concluding Thoughts Eszter Krasznai Kovacs, György Pataki, Arnošt Novák, Mikulás Černìk, Jana Hrckova, Balsa Lubarda, Alexandra Coțofană, Imola Püsök, George Iordăchescu, June Brawner, Renata Blumberg, Jovana Dikovic, Éva Mihalovics and Zsüli Fehér List of Figures Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20210728 13 15 9781800641334 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0244 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0244.pdf 99 01