Nationalism is back with a renewed force. Hungary is a virulent example of the new nationalist ascendancy. As the country was a former liberal star pupil, Hungary’s neo-nationalist turn has been puzzling researchers for years. This study goes beyond the entrenched polarisations in the literature by highlighting the dynamic interplay between culture, structure and identity. It proposes to conceptualise Hungary’s neo-nationalist turn as a Polanyian countermovement against commodification, globalisation and deindustrialisation. The article presents the results of a thematic analysis of 82 interviews with workers in four towns in Hungary’s rustbelt and highlights how the multiscalar lived experience of commodifying reforms violated an implicit social contract and changed workers’ narrative identities. In the absence of a class-based shared narrative and lacking a viable political tool to control their fate, working-class neo-nationalism emerged as a new narrative identity to express workers’ anger and outrage.

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被遗忘在匈牙利锈带：工人阶级新民族主义的文化政治经济学

民族主义以新的力量卷土重来。匈牙利是新民族主义崛起的恶毒例子。由于该国曾是自由派明星学生，匈牙利的新民族主义转向多年来一直困扰着研究人员。通过强调文化、结构和身份之间的动态相互作用，这项研究超越了文献中根深蒂固的两极分化。它建议将匈牙利的新民族主义转向概念化为波兰反对商品化、全球化和去工业化的反运动。本文展示了对匈牙利锈带四个城镇工人的 82 次访谈的主题分析结果，并强调了商品化改革的多尺度生活经验如何违反了隐含的社会契约并改变了工人的叙事身份。