Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud

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Zsuzsa Gille. Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud

PAPRIKA, FOIE GRAS, and RED MUD. THE POLITICS OF MATERIALITY. IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. HUNGARY AND THE EU IN THE POLITICAL. AND SCHOLARLY IMAGINATION

PICTURES OF AN ACCESSION

GLOBAL ETHNOGRAPHY

1

THE 2004 HUNGARIAN. PAPRIKA BAN

SAFETY AS PRACTICE. Practicing Paprika

Hungarian Agriculture in the European Union

Adulteration Practices

Hungarian or Safe?

SAFETY AS TRANSNATIONALITY

Consequences

CAN A FUNGUS SPEAK?

2

THE 2008 FOIE GRAS. BOYCOTT. THE ANTI–FOIE GRAS CAMPAIGN

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GAVAGE

ETHICS AS TRANSNATIONALITY

Renationalizing Ethics

Struggles for Moral Sovereignty

ETHICS AS PRACTICE

The Production Process and Animal Living Conditions

3

THE 2010. RED MUD SPILL

RED MUD

THE HUNGARIAN ALUMINUM INDUSTRY. AND THE HISTORY OF RED MUD

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AS TRANSNATIONAL

Regulation on Different Scales

Western Regulation of Red Mud

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AS PRACTICE

Privatization and Ownership of the Red Mud Lagoons

Red Mud as a Source of Profit. Lagoon Rental

Future Recovery of Precious Minerals

THE EU’S REACTION

THE TWO GAPS OF POSTACCESSION. ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

4

NEOLIBERALISM, MOLECULARIZATION, AND. THE SHIFT TO GOVERNANCE

EUROPEAN UNION: SMALL OR BIG?

THE SOCIOLOGY OF SIZE

REGULATORY INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CASE STUDIES

The Neoliberalism Argument

The New Regulatory Paradigm Argument

The Cultural Commodification Argument

CONCLUSION. THE MATERIALIZATION. OF POLITICS

TRANSNATIONAL HYBRID ONTOLOGIES

POLITICS AND MATERIALITY

THE MATERIALIZATION OF POLITICS

NOTES. INTRODUCTION

1. THE 2004 HUNGARIAN PAPRIKA BAN

2. THE 2008 FOIE GRAS BOYCOTT

3. THE 2010 RED MUD SPILL

4. NEOLIBERALISM, MOLECULARIZATION, AND THE SHIFT TO GOVERNANCE

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

INDEX

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FOIE GRAS,

and RED MUD

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Instead of taking them to be examples of the particular qua local, I read the contradiction between these two sets of images, and their attendant list of binaries, as evidence that what we need is a new reading of the postsocialist transition and EU accession. Two metaphors have been helpful in understanding these processes. Both have been productive but also selective in terms of what type of analysis they made possible. One is the metaphor of tabula rasa, the other is “fuzziness.”

Early observers of the postsocialist transition noted that the attendant transformations—democratization, privatization, marketization, Europeanization—did not take place on a tabula rasa.11 What they meant to convey by invoking the blank slate metaphor is, first, that building a new type of society does not take place in a vacuum, nor can it commence from scratch; people of the future are people of the past, and short of brainwashing them, you will have to build democracy not with the people you want but with the people you have. Not only can one not just purge everything in the course of transition itself, but the local social and cultural conditions will also affect the emerging nature of capitalism and democracy. These arguments were developed and demonstrated in dozens of brilliant studies of land reform, labor relations, and civil society conducted in all the formerly socialist countries.

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