The Implications of Accession for Waste Policies and Industrial Practices : Hungary and the European Union

The hope that prevailed immediately after the collapse of state socialism was that Eastern Europe's environmental pollution would be "swept away by democracy and economic rationality." While with time such expectations have become more modest, some of the same hopes are now resurfacing as the accession of most former socialist countries to the European Union becomes imminent. Most environmentalists and policy experts anticipate an improvement in regulatory standards, in law enforcement, and in the availability of funding for environmental purposes. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether and how such expectations are being met in one area of environmental policies in Hungary, a country among the first wave of candidates to be admitted to the EU.published or submitted for publicationnot peer reviewe

Global Ethnography

Globalization poses a challenge to existing social scientific methods of inquiry and units of analysis by destabilizing the embeddedness of social relations in particular communities and places. Ethnographic sites are globalized by means of various external connections across multiple spatial scales and porous and contested boundaries. Global ethnographers must begin their analysis by seeking out 'placemaking projects' that seek to define new kinds of places, with new definitions of social relations and their boundaries. Existing ethnographic studies of global processes tend to cluster under one of three slices of globalization 'global forces, connections, or imaginations' each defined by a different kind of place-making project. The extension of the site in time and space poses practical and conceptual problems for ethnographers, but also political ones. Nonetheless, by locating themselves firmly within the time and space of social actors 'living the global', ethnographers can reveal howglobal processes are collectively and politically constructed, demonstrating the variety of ways in which globalization is grounded in the local

Létezik-e szocialocén?

Mi a kapcsolat az antropocén és az államszocializmus között? Ez együgyű kérdésnek tűnhet, ugyanis az már a vonatkozó szakirodalom felületes tanulmányozásából is kiderül, hogy a szocializmushoz, a kommunizmushoz vagy a Szovjetunióhoz akár csak távolról is kapcsolódó fogalmak kizárólag akkor bukkannak fel az antropocénnel foglalkozó szövegekben, amikor a globális ökológiai válság jövőbeni megoldásának politikai lehetőségeiről van szó. Balogh Róbert történész nemrégiben megjelent írását (2018) kivéve úgy tűnhet, hogy ennek a kérdésnek nem sok jelentősége van

Análisis desde el modelo deductivo de la fragilidad del relleno sanitario ‘Doña Juana’ y la resistencia de sus habitantes

Artículo de InvestigaciónEl denominado Relleno Sanitario ‘Doña Juana’ cuya ubicación es en la localidad de Usme de la ciudad de Bogotá, ha ocasionado graves impactos ambientales y en la salud de los habitantes de la Vereda Mochuelo Alto, que afecta en gran medida la calidad de vida y la garantía de sus derechos. El inadecuado uso de los residuos sólidos y la ausencia de vertederos que sean impermeabilizados, convierte a este relleno sanitario en una amenaza de contaminación. El objetivo del presente artículo es demostrar la ausencia de inclusión y participación de la ciudadanía en la toma de decisiones, adoptadas para mitigar los impactos, así como la poca interacción entre los actores involucrados.INTRODUCCIÓN I. Panorama y manejo de los Rellenos Sanitarios. II. Implicaciones del derecho internacional ambiental en los rellenos sanitarios. III. Contextualización del Relleno. IV. Impacto del Relleno Sanitario ‘Doña Juana’ en la comunidad de Mochuelo Alto. V. Visión prospectiva del Plan de Gestión Integral de Residuos Sólidos 2016-2027. VI. Conclusiones. VII. BibliografíaPregradoAbogad

The Implications of Accession for Waste Policies and Industrial Practices: Hungary and the European Union. University of Illinois EUC Working Paper, Vol. 4, No. 1

The hope that prevailed immediately after the collapse of state socialism was that Eastern Europe’s environmental pollution would be "swept away by democracy and economic rationality." While with time such expectations have become more modest, some of the same hopes are now resurfacing as the accession of most former socialist countries to the European Union becomes imminent. Most environmentalists and policy experts anticipate an improvement in regulatory standards, in law enforcement, and in the availability of funding for environmental purposes. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether and how such expectations are being met in one area of environmental policies in Hungary, a country among the first wave of candidates to be admitted to the EU

Global Force, Connections or Vision?: The Three Meanings of Europe in Postsocialism

How can one provide a nuanced, empirically grounded, analysis of the diverse experiences and views of globalization is the question I set out to answer in this paper. This paper, therefore, explores the meanings of the European Union for various actors and social groups in Hungary. I argue that from the perspective of Eastern European candidate countries, the EU is a key agent of globalization, and, as such is an appropriate proxy for studying globalization in postsocialism.published or submitted for publicationnot peer reviewe

Global Force, Connections, or Vision?: The Three Meanings of Europe in Postsocialism. University of Illinois EUC Working Paper Vol. 4, No. 2

How can one provide a nuanced, empirically grounded, analysis of the diverse experiences and views of globalization is the question I set out to answer in this paper This paper, therefore, explores the meanings of the European Union for various actors and social groups in Hungary. I argue that from the perspective of Eastern European candidate countries, the EU is a key agent of globalization, and, as such is an appropriate proxy for studying globalization in postsocialism