Contents

Acknowledgements

vii

Contributors

ix

Introduction: Political Ecology in Eastern Europe

1

Eszter Krasznai Kovács

Part I

1.

The Dismantling of Environmentalism in Hungary

25

Eszter Krasznai Kovács and György Pataki

2.

The Making of the Environmental and Climate Justice Movements in the Czech Republic

53

Arnošt Novák

3.

The Construction of Climate Justice Imaginaries through Resistance in the Czech Republic and Poland

73

Mikulás Černìk

4.

Gaps of Warsaw: Urban Environmentalism through Green Interstices

97

Jana Hrckova

Part II

5.

Far-right Grassroots Environmental Activism in Poland and the Blurry Lines of ‘Acceptable’ Environmentalisms

121

Balsa Lubarda

6.

Contorted Naturalisms: The Concept of Romanian Nationalist Mountains

141

Alexandra Coțofană

7.

A (Hi)Story of Dwelling in a (Post)Mining Town in Romania

163

Imola Püsök

Part III

8.

The Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies of Wild Nature Conservation in Romania

185

George Iordăchescu

9.

Domesticating the Taste of Place: Post-Socialist Terroir and Policy Landscapes in Tokaj, Hungary

211

June Brawner

10.

A Geographical Political Ecology of Eastern European Food Systems

235

Renata Blumberg

11.

What Is Not Known about Rural Development? Village Experiences from Serbia

261

Jovana Dikovic

12.

Failure to Hive: A Co-narrated Story of a Failed Social Co-operative from the Hungarian Countryside

283

Éva Mihalovics and Zsüli Fehér

Concluding Thoughts

307

The Contributors

List of Figures

315

Index

319