{"product_id":"ilona-nmeth-isbn-9783956795732","title":"Ilona Németh","description":"\u003cb\u003eA look, through the work of Ilona Németh, at the transitioning social and economic infrastructure of Eastern Europe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEastern Sugar was the name chosen by Générale Sucrière and Tate \u0026amp; Lyle for their joint venture to acquire sugar factories across Central Europe after the fall of communism in 1989. In the mid-2000s, the Franco-British consortium cashed in its investment to take advantage of a European Union compensation scheme and permanently shut down its sites. This book takes as its starting point artist Ilona Németh’s extensive research into the history of sugar production in the region, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century, when northern sugar beet emerged as a competitor to southern sugar cane, to the social impact of the rapid decline of the industry in the era of peak globalization. The fate of Eastern Sugar is explored as a microcosm of the mechanisms of postcommunist transition across Central Europe from the opportunism of financial speculators to the endemic corruption of privatization, posing the question of whether neoliberal marketization was the only viable exit strategy from state socialism. Contributions dealing with the social and environmental legacies of Caribbean sugar plantations situate the sugar histories of Eastern Europe within the spread of a monocultural system based on (neo)colonial extractivism. Through critical texts, conversations, and artistic interventions, \u003ci\u003eIlona Németh: Eastern Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e restores complexity to the history of the rapid decline of the Slovak sugar industry, and by extension the wider social and economic infrastructure of transition in Central Europe, while at the same time opening up planetary trajectories for postcapitalist alternatives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdit András, Fedor Blaščák and Rado Baťo, Johanna Bockman, Kathrin Böhm, Anetta Mona Chișa, Cooking Sections, Annalee Davis, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Ferenc Gróf, Dušan Janíček, Edit Molnár, Ilona Németh, Michael Niblett, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, Joanna Sokołowska, Imre Szeman, Raluca Voinea\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ecopublished with Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava\u003cbr\u003e Maja and Reuben Fowkes are founders of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art and co-directors of the Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL.\u003cbr\u003eIlona Németh is an artist, professor, organizer and curator based in Slovakia.","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299837825253,"sku":"NP9783956795732","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9783956795732.jpg?v=1767729823","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ilona-nmeth-isbn-9783956795732","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}