Inivitation to the IPW Lecture Beyond Neoliberalism? Financialisation, Middle-Class Pronatalism, and Hungary’s New Regime of Social Reproduction.
Lecturer: Dorit Geva (Central European University, Budapest)
Moderation: Ayse Dursun (IPW | University of Vienna)
When: Monday, 18 January 2021, 18:30
Where: Online - https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/49398a8d157b4d57adc9161263b88795
Abstract:
Returning to analyses of Thatcherism which identified how neoliberalism intensified authoritarian tendencies of the state, this essay examines Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, and his cultivation of a new form of authoritarian and hyper-nationalist neoliberalism, which I call ordonationalist. With particular emphasis placed on tracing resurgence of the national state, ordonationalism points to the neoliberal intensifications, but also the ruptures to neoliberalism through post-neoliberal “advances,” exemplified by the Hungarian state. Ordonationalism combines: 1. A newly empowered nationalist state invested in flexibilising domestic labour and controlling access to domestic capitalist accumulation; 2. The national state is captured by political actors as a means towards controlling the state and access to domestic capital accumulation; 3. A novel regime of social reproduction, linking financialisation, flexibilisation of labour, steep decline in supporting social reproduction, and dedicating state resources to enabling consumption as a source of social reproduction. This project is hegemonic. However, the contradictions between radical neoliberalization and radical nationalism generate ever-more instances where an authoritarian state “needs” to step in to solve crises generated by its contradictions.
An event within the IPW Lectures, an international lecture series of the Department for Political Science, University of Vienna.
