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Author Gille, Zsuzsa, author

Title Paprika, foie gras, and red mud : the politics of materiality in the European union / Zsuzsa Gille
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Global research studies
Global research studies.
Contents The 2004 Hungarian paprika ban -- The 2008 foie gras boycott -- The 2010 red mud spill -- Neoliberalism, molecularization, and the shift to governance
Summary In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by Austrian animal rights activists, and the 'red mud' spill of 2010, Hungary's worst environmental disaster. In each case, Gille analyzes how practices of production and consumption were affected by the proliferation of new standards and regulations that came with entry into the EU. She identifies a new modality of power (the materialization of politics, or achieving political goals with the seemingly apolitical tools of tinkering with technology and infrastructure) and elucidates a new approach to understanding globalization, materiality, and transnational politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject European Union.
SUBJECT European Union fast
Europäische Union gnd
Subject Trade regulation -- Hungary
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food.
Economic history
Social conditions
Trade regulation
Europäisierung
Erweiterung
Umweltpolitik
Handelspolitik
Agrarpolitik
Liberalisierung
Regelung
SUBJECT Hungary -- Economic conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000603
Hungary -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92000909
Subject Hungary
Osteuropa
Ungarn
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015027313
ISBN 9780253019509
0253019508