CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Fernengel, Agnes |
|---|---|
| Title | State Project, Intellectuals and Legitimacy: Abolishing the Hungarian Textbook Market |
| Summary | This thesis explores how a new state project is established in Hungary after 2010 by examining the controversies surrounding the abolishment of the textbook market. After 2010 there was a nationalist-conservative turn in Hungarian politics including the redrawing of the state’s role and entitlements. This research aims to understand this transformation, building on Pierre Bourdieu’s and Bob Jessop’s state theory. In the analysis, I investigate the relations between centralization, legitimation and conflict in the process of complete nationalization of this long-standing field of cultural production, where the structural changes of the state apparatus cut through the social fabric of the previous order. Through interviews conducted with textbook editors, managers of both the national and the private publishers and employees of the Ministry of Human Capacities, I aim to understand these changes through the narratives of intellectuals, on how state power is exercised at its newly drawn boundaries. I argue that the abolishment of the field and repositioning of elites prevents the agents from effectively challenging the new state project’s legitimacy. |
| Supervisor | Violetta, Zentai; Alexandra, Kowalski |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/fernengel_agnes.pdf |
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