Category Archives: Periodical

Time’s Arrow in Tázlár (and in Anthropology)

Before the times of socialism, Tázlár was a small boondocks community of the Great Plain in Hungary. In the 1970s, when the author started his fieldwork there, he found quick development, constructions and future oriented people. Now, many homes are for sale, the land was privatised but the output is smaller. Since 2012, the primary school belongs again to the church, not because Tázlár residents have nostalgia for the Horthy era but to secure the finances for the institution. The author uses the ‘anthropology of time' approach in his local history and ethnographic analysis.

The Chilean Student Movement

Among the social movements developed in 2011, maybe the Chilean student movement made the maximum echo in the Americas. The article is exploring the roots and goals of this movement, clearing a misunderstanding that these protests were focusing only on (re)making the education gratis. By presenting the two year history of the movement, the author (also) wants to contribute to Hungarian public discussions.

In Defence of System-based Critical Economics

We willingly believe that if nothing else but academics is properly nuanced and open in the present world. The reality is different: systems-based critical economics – although its representatives have foretold the possibility of a coming crisis years before its outbreak, and analysing its features now also getting into its roots and further perspective – has been and still missing from the mainstream of Hungarian economics, in addition making such studies public is difficul.

Two Insurrections

Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas: Engedelmeskedve parancsolni. A mexikói neozapatizmus politikai tanulságai. [Commanding by obeying. Political lessons from neozapatoism in Mexico] Eszmélet Kiskönyvtár, Budapest, L'Harmattan Kiadó – Eszmélet Alapítvány 2012; and Láthatatlan bizottság: Az eljövendő felkelés. [The Invisible Committee: The Coming Insurrection] Budapest, published privately, 2013.