The Many Faces of Agricultural Privatization in Eastern Germany

Buechler, Hans C.; Buechler, Judith-Maria

doi:10.1525/awr.1995.16.3-4.32

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“…In Germany, this period was termed die Wende, during which the reunifi cation and monetary union of the formerly separated Germanys took place. Because of the centrality given to agriculture and farming during the communist period (Buechler and Buechler 1995), food and agriculture became a new theater of struggle, among the many generated by the transformation aft er 1989. Sociologist Zsuzsa Gille has shown, for example, how the symbolism of materials in post-Socialist Hungary, such as paprika, foie gras, and industrial metals, shift ed as Hungary forged a new relationship with the EU aft er joining in 2004, particularly as harmonization to the EU standards lowered the competitive advantage that the country had previously enjoyed (2016: 128).…”

Section: Industrializing Eastern German Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Animal husbandry, a major part of the contemporary German economy, is the subject of politically and morally charged discourses about the effects of the industry on the nation’s landscape and its role in economic globalization. German politicians and activists oft en discuss industrialized animal husbandry practices as abusive and polluting. This article analyzes how these debates are imbricated in forms of concern about nonhuman animals that tend to be differentiated geographically by urban-rural boundaries. I argue the privileging of animals as moral entities causes interpersonal friction between those who rely on animals for a living and those who do not, and expresses fundamental tensions about the rural landscape as a space of industrialized agricultural production, as opposed to a space dedicated to the conservation of the natural environment.

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Section: Industrializing Eastern German Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

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“…As the quote of an eastern independent farmer at the beginning of this section illustrates, they did not relish the idea of merely exchanging one dependent relationship for another by becoming the operator/managers for western farmers. Such Tiefladerbaiiern (itinerant farmers), who appeared on the scene with farming equipment they used for their main operations in the west loaded on flat bed trucks (Tieflader), were looked down upon by all the more permanently established farmers in the east, irrespective of origin, who accused them of short-term strategies, of abusing the land through continuous planting with little or no fertilization until the residual fertility of the land was used up (see Buechler and Buechler 1995).…”

Section: The Social Position Of Eastern German Farm Owners and Coopermentioning

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Farmers, conflict, and identity in eastern Germany

Buechler

2000

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This article, based on our research in eastern Germany, examines the manner in which farmers-including managers of the cooperatives that emerged out of former agricultural collectives, newly independent eastern German individual farmers, and newcomers from the Westdefine their roles and identities in the newly unified German state. We analyze this process within a framework that combines socialinteractional, social network, and cognitive models, taking into account fluidity and contradictions in behavior and in its symbolization. Identity formation unfolds in an arena characterized by competition for land based on differential access to various sources of power. Historical identities from the pre-communist past, the recent communist past, and those developed in western Germany during the period of separation all provide the basis for emerging identities. The logic and reality of this redefinition are embedded in wider political and economic interests that are themselves inconsistent and in flux.

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The Bakers of Bemburg and the Logics of Communism and Capitalism

Buechler

1999

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Drawing on a study of small‐and large‐scale bakeries in the pre‐and post‐communist periods in a small city in eastern Germany, we analyze the ambiguous roles hegemonies—communism before 1990 and capitalism after the unification of the two Germanies—have played in the lives of artisans. We propose a model of hegemony that emphasizes the role of agents other than "organic intellectuals." We conclude that, in order to survive, a hegemony may adapt to competing ideologies and interests by attempting to incorporate aspects of previous traditions that manifest themselves in daily behavior even when these are antithetical to the basic tenets of the hegemony and may ultimately contribute to its demise, [hegemony, economic change, artisans, small‐scale enterprises, eastern Germany]

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The Many Faces of Agricultural Privatization in Eastern Germany

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