Surveillance and state-making through EU agricultural policy in Hungary

摘要: This paper explores how the implementation of EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and agri-environment measures in particular have been used to increase state oversight into rural affairs land use Hungary. The governmentalities agricultural sector through Europeanisation include stringent inspections controls as part parcel accountability drives around disbursement subsidies. surveillance mechanisms processes are recounted here holistic, perpetual immediate, composed remote, administrative, well embodied physical encounters. Through ethnographic engagement with Hungarian state’s interactions its farmers during inspections, forms consequences neoliberal governmentality given life a post-socialist context. I elucidate numerous subjectivities involved these encounters, bureaucratic administrative requirements underlie rise private consultants, where social capital informal networks great importance for successful navigation system. On farmers, subsidies’ systems were lived unjust, giving speculation ‘real’ intended purposes legislation, which turn undermines expert authority heightens skepticism towards European ‘project’.