"Fields of Power" is a serial podcast that tells the story of how control over land in Hungary became a crucial terrain for consolidating PM Orbán's regime's authoritarian grip on power.
At the heart of "Fields of Power" is a central question: how does land ownership shape democracy? Or even more urgently: how does the loss of democratic control over land support the rise of illiberalism?
The story begins on the farms and grazing areas, in displaced rural communities, and through the voices of those directly affected. In the podcast, we hear from farmers and herders who lost their land, an investigative journalist who has spent years unpacking these dynamics, activists and "alternative" farmers who resist the system from within, and scholars who help us make sense of what this all means for the rise of far-right authoritarianism today.
Our podcast strives to challenge the common view that Viktor Orbán is the main problem in Hungary. Our aim is to show that Orbánism did not arise in a vacuum. Rather, it is deeply entangled with, environmental and agricultural transformations, including the privatisation and enclosure of farmland, the "urgency" of the green transition, technocracy, the destruction of commons, and the erosion of local democratic institutions.
The podcast was created and produced by three academics working on environmental justice, political ecology, and far-right authoritarianism in Central-Eastern Europe.
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"Fields of Power" is a serial podcast that tells the story of how control over land in Hungary became a crucial terrain for consolidating PM Orbán's regime's authoritarian grip on power.
At the heart of "Fields of Power" is a central question: how does land ownership shape democracy? Or even more urgently: how does the loss of democratic control over land support the rise of illiberalism?
The story begins on the farms and grazing areas, in displaced rural communities, and through the voices of those directly affected. In the podcast, we hear from farmers and herders who lost their land, an investigative journalist who has spent years unpacking these dynamics, activists and "alternative" farmers who resist the system from within, and scholars who help us make sense of what this all means for the rise of far-right authoritarianism today.
Our podcast strives to challenge the common view that Viktor Orbán is the main problem in Hungary. Our aim is to show that Orbánism did not arise in a vacuum. Rather, it is deeply entangled with, environmental and agricultural transformations, including the privatisation and enclosure of farmland, the "urgency" of the green transition, technocracy, the destruction of commons, and the erosion of local democratic institutions.
The podcast was created and produced by three academics working on environmental justice, political ecology, and far-right authoritarianism in Central-Eastern Europe.
"Fields of Power" is a serial podcast that tells the story of how control over land in Hungary became a crucial terrain for consolidating PM Orbán's regime's authoritarian grip on power.
At the heart of "Fields of Power" is a central question: how does land ownership shape democracy? Or even more urgently: how does the loss of democratic control over land support the rise of illiberalism?
The story begins on the farms and grazing areas, in displaced rural communities, and through the voices of those directly affected. In the podcast, we hear from farmers and herders who lost their land, an investigative journalist who has spent years unpacking these dynamics, activists and "alternative" farmers who resist the system from within, and scholars who help us make sense of what this all means for the rise of far-right authoritarianism today.
Our podcast strives to challenge the common view that Viktor Orbán is the main problem in Hungary. Our aim is to show that Orbánism did not arise in a vacuum. Rather, it is deeply entangled with, environmental and agricultural transformations, including the privatisation and enclosure of farmland, the "urgency" of the green transition, technocracy, the destruction of commons, and the erosion of local democratic institutions.
The podcast was created and produced by three academics working on environmental justice, political ecology, and far-right authoritarianism in Central-Eastern Europe.
