CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Kallius, Minna Annastiina |
|---|---|
| Title | Village as a Project: Managerialist Citizenship and Politics of Entitlement in Vamosszabadi |
| Summary | Demonstrations against the establishment of a refugee camp in a middle-class village in Western Hungary led to the establishment in the village of a vigilantist “civil control”, designed to oversee political affairs and to assure ‘homogeneity’ in terms of class composition. My thesis unpacks the genealogy of the “civil control” by analysing the pre-existing social tensions in the village that triggered indignation against the refugee camp in the first place, and acted as precursor to local vigilantism. Using the various citizenship regimes developed and applied by the villagers themselves, I analyze the social history of the village as divided between 01c;Aboriginals ” and “Settlers”, as well as between politically active 1c;Civilians&#x 201d; and politically apathetic “Citizens”. I then demonstrate how Civilians established their views as the hegemonic narrative in the village by invoking belonging through real-estate value and normative tax-paying behaviour, thus upholding and performing a desirable community. The second part of the thesis then focuses on Civilians as a contested community, unmasking some the tensions and conflicts behind the ostensibly harmonious community, exposing conflictual trajectories of belonging, highlighting dialogical nature of constructed citizenship and how contestations are constitutive of managerialist citizenship. Civilians thus emerge as a strategic community, promoting a specific type of homogenous class citizenship, localism and a quest for managerialist civil control of politics. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar; Rabinowitz, Dan |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/kallius_minna.pdf |
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