Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class

Don Kalb is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, and Senior Researcher at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His books include Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950 (Duke University Press 1997); The Ends of Globalization. Bringing Society back in, (ed., Rowman and Littlefield 2000); Globalization and Development: Key Issues and Debates (ed., Kluwer Academic 2004); Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn (ed., Berghahn Books 2005). He is the founding editor of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.

“This is an excellent volume…[that] offers major theoretical and ethnographic insights not just with reference to neoliberal processes but also to the general understanding of state transformations…The overall theme of the book – the importance of bringing class back into anthropological concerns - and a shift away from culturalist/essentialist understandings (especially in relation to nationalism) is well-taken and developed. The book will be a major contribution towards reasserting the importance of an attention to class-based discussion.” • Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen“[A] must-read. In the best tradition of Eric Wolf and Sydney Mintz, this book is a powerful example of the anthropological rethinking of class analysis that is necessary for grasping the contradictions of post-Cold War globalization. With Kalb’s penetrating introductory essay and the urban case studies from across Europe, it addresses one of the most challenging issues of our time - the power of the new right.” • Ida Susser, Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York“[A]n extremely responsible engagement with the important issues of our time. It is throbbing with relevance and edgy in its provocations. Kalb’s introductory essay is a tour de force, which shows how the various contributions add up to more than the sum of the parts. It will secure a wide readership in the social sciences, history, and cultural studies.” • Gavin Smith, University of Toronto

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class:Working Class Populism and the return of the Repressed in Neoliberal EuropeDon KalbChapter 1. ‘Nationalism is Back!’ Radikali and Privatization Processes in SerbiaTheodora VettaChapter 2. Articulating the Right to the City: Working Class Neo-Nationalism in Postsocialist Cluf, RomaniaNorbert PetroviciChapter 3. Football Fandom in Cluj: Class, Ethno-nationalism and CosmopolitanismFlorin FajeChapter 4. “Because it Can't Make Me Happy that Audi is Prospering”: Working Class Nationalism in Hungary after 1989Eszter BarthaChapter 5. (Dis)possessed by the Spectre of Socialism. Nationalist Mobilization in “Transitional” HungaryGábor HalmaiChapter 6. Working Class Nationalism in a Scottish VillagePaul GilfillanChapter 7. Class without Consciousness: Regional Identity in Northern Italy in Late ModernityJaro StaculChapter 8. Long March to Oblivion? The Decline of the Italian Left on Its Home Grounds and the Rise of the New Right in Their MidstMichael BlimEpilogue: From the Ashes of a Counter-RevolutionGeorge BacaNotes on Contributors