TY - JOUR AU - Buzalka, Juraj PY - 2023/01/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - THE POST-PEASANT POPULISM OF EASTERN EUROPE: ON RESILIENCE AND THE MOBILISATION OF AN ECONOMIC BASE JF - Ethnologia Polona JA - EP VL - 43 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.23858/ethp.2022.43.3102 UR - https://journals.iaepan.pl/ethp/article/view/3102 SP - AB - <p>This paper conceptualises an East European type of populism that I call post-peasant. It originated in state-socialist modernisation and mobilises people who are not peasants, but who nevertheless value the countryside as morally superior to a life in large cities. My major contention is that post-peasant populism emerges under specific cultural-economic conditions, among which the institution I call the ‘post-peasant house’ is paramount. This institution, in its economic and cultural dimensions, connects the recent agrarian past, socialist modernism, and the post-socialist present, both as a habitual practice and a representation of the people.</p> ER -