Karl Polanyi Research Center
for Global Social Studies

Karl Polanyi Research Center for Global Social Studies is happy to announce the book launch: Repatriating Polanyi: Market Society in the Visegrád States by Chris Hann published by CEU Press in 2019 Karl Polanyi’s “substantivist” critique of market society has found new popularity in the era of neoliberal globalization. The author reclaims this polymath for contemporary anthropology, especially economic anthropology, in the context of Central Europe, where Polanyi (1886–1964)

This co-hosted workshop engages with the intellectual heritage of Karl Polanyi as an economic anthropologist on the basis of recent ethnographic works on the livelihood of marginalized groupings. The presentations depart from the idea that the current epoch is marked by the global expansion – as well as new configurations – of informalized and precarious labour. The livelihood practices and coping strategies of marginalized populations, including the poor or the sub-proletari