P Andits
Biographic Data
| ID | 22356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Andits |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Andits |
| SIGNATURE | ANDITS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9448-7611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Small town markets and crowded buses
In this article, I examine the ‘homecoming’ experiences of young second‐ and third‐generation Australian‐Hungarians. The aim of the paper is to challenge the compartmentalisation of tourism and migration studies by exploring how these two phenomena intertwine, merge, and influence one another in multiple and fluid ways. Specifically, I attempt to merge the two disciplines by analysing the meta‐narratives that have influenced Australian‐Hungarian …
One of my eyes was crying, the other was laughing
In this paper, I explore an under-researched aspect of migration, that is, the contradicting emotions experienced by diaspora concerning their original land. Specifically, I consider the ways in which ambivalence is evoked and expressed in the Australian – Hungarian homeland-related diasporic discourses following the Fall of Communism. To investigate how diaspora members accept a new and yet paradoxically ‘historic’ homeland, I employ Bakhtin’s p…
Nostalgia as double-edged sword
Based on multi-sited ethnography, this article examines the return visits of Australian-Hungarian diaspora subjects after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In particular, it explores how nostalgia becomes an instrument for navigating the ambiguities, paradoxes, and disappointments of return and forging new and creative relationships with the home country. I argue that as much as nostalgia has contributed to the shattering of returnees’ illusions in th…
Israeli Jews against the Wall
This paper deals with Jewish-Israeli activists who join Palestinian demonstrations in the occupied West Bank against the Separation Wall, the 800-kilometre-long, eight-metre-high wall that separates Palestinians and Israeli settlers. Jewish-Israeli activists who join the Palestinian-led struggle are placed in a challenging and unique position: they are members of the settler–colonial oppressor collective and benefit from this colonisation. Israel…
Waiting during the time of Covid‐19
‘Not anymore, not yet’
This article examines the return visits of Australian‐Hungarians to their homeland after 1989 and the different types of homecoming experiences after an extended period of separation. The focus of the paper is returnees’ perceptions of changes to Hungary or lack thereof. I analyse the distinction between the ‘desired/nostalgic past’, which Hungarian returnees nurtured during the decades of separation and expected to rediscover upon return, and th…
Demonstrating Success
This article reexamines the concept of successful outcome and its relation to collective social action. Specifically, it looks at a demonstration organized by Australian-Hungarian community members in Melbourne, Australia, in 2005 that failed to meet any of its original goals, yet was nonetheless perceived as a success by participants. In order to make sense of this seeming disjuncture, I argue we need to understand the protest as a performance t…
Struggling for cultural survival
The Hungarian immigrant community in Australia is struggling with cultural survival. The diaspora has experienced a general decline in community participation as a result of the aging of the émigré population and the rapid assimilation of subsequent generations. Using data derived from the series of annual community‐organised conferences called Megmaradásunk Konferenciák , this article compares the different discourses articulated by community le…
The cool welcome and the responses to it
This article examines the social aspects of Australian-Hungarians’ return to Hungary after the collapse of communism. I suggest that one of the most disillusioning aspects of homecoming for this group of Australian-Hungarians was the cold welcome they received from those who had stayed behind. The main task of this article is to analyse how returnees grappled with the negative attitudes of the stayees. Three major strategies are identified by mea…
Between Suspicion and Trust
This chapter discusses the challenges encountered and mechanisms to deal with research in Brussels. It explores the context of Jewish Israeli women in Belgium. The chapter explores women's experiences of gender and gendered identities. It also explores the professional identity of these women and how they experienced being Jewish women in the Belgian workplace. It focuses on women's experiences of national identity and how they achieved a sense o…
The value of culturedness
In this paper we investigate how the values of respect and dignity inform the ways migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary in Australia locate themselves in relation to local, national and transnational identities. Drawing upon ethnographic insights, we discuss how the concept of culturedness is implicated in these migrant claims for dignified belonging. Determinants of culturedness are informed by influential narratives of ‘East versus …
From historical injustice to local conflict
This article explores the key to the successful mobilization process of the Trianon demonstration, organized by local Hungarians in Melbourne’s CBD in 2005. I argue that mobilization–countermobilization (hereafter MCM) dynamics holds the key to the understanding of the relatively high number of protest participants. In particular, I argue that we need to take a closer look at the dialogic framing activities within the MCM dynamics in order to und…
Rethinking Home, Belonging, and the Potentials of Transnationalism
This article investigates how first-generation Australian-Hungarians' physical and social conceptions of home have been reconfigured by the changing political settings in Hungary after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I investigate whether the structural transformation after 1989 enabled Hungarians in Australia to shift their perception of the homeland from an abstract image to the homeland as a lived experience. This article suggests three main theo…
The Politics of Hope and Disappointment
In this article, I look at the ways in which the homeland-related discourses among Hungarians in Australia have shifted as a result of the political and social transformations in Hungary around and after 1989. In order to disentangle this question, I place a specific emphasis on the dynamics between identification, emotions and politics. I demonstrate that the aftermath of regime change produced a sense of ambivalence in discourses about Australi…
Rethinking Home, Belonging, and the Potentials of Transnationalism
This article investigates how first-generation Australian-Hungarians' physical and social conceptions of home have been reconfigured by the changing political settings in Hungary after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I investigate whether the structural transformation after 1989 enabled Hungarians in Australia to shift their perception of the homeland from an abstract image to the homeland as a lived experience. This article suggests three main theo…
The Politics of Hope and Disappointment
In this article, I look at the ways in which the homeland-related discourses among Hungarians in Australia have shifted as a result of the political and social transformations in Hungary around and after 1989. In order to disentangle this question, I place a specific emphasis on the dynamics between identification, emotions and politics. I demonstrate that the aftermath of regime change produced a sense of ambivalence in discourses about Australi…
The cool welcome and the responses to it
This article examines the social aspects of Australian-Hungarians’ return to Hungary after the collapse of communism. I suggest that one of the most disillusioning aspects of homecoming for this group of Australian-Hungarians was the cold welcome they received from those who had stayed behind. The main task of this article is to analyse how returnees grappled with the negative attitudes of the stayees. Three major strategies are identified by mea…
From historical injustice to local conflict
This article explores the key to the successful mobilization process of the Trianon demonstration, organized by local Hungarians in Melbourne’s CBD in 2005. I argue that mobilization–countermobilization (hereafter MCM) dynamics holds the key to the understanding of the relatively high number of protest participants. In particular, I argue that we need to take a closer look at the dialogic framing activities within the MCM dynamics in order to und…
One of my eyes was crying, the other was laughing
In this paper, I explore an under-researched aspect of migration, that is, the contradicting emotions experienced by diaspora concerning their original land. Specifically, I consider the ways in which ambivalence is evoked and expressed in the Australian – Hungarian homeland-related diasporic discourses following the Fall of Communism. To investigate how diaspora members accept a new and yet paradoxically ‘historic’ homeland, I employ Bakhtin’s p…
The Politics of Hope and Disappointment
In this article, I look at the ways in which the homeland-related discourses among Hungarians in Australia have shifted as a result of the political and social transformations in Hungary around and after 1989. In order to disentangle this question, I place a specific emphasis on the dynamics between identification, emotions and politics. I demonstrate that the aftermath of regime change produced a sense of ambivalence in discourses about Australi…
Rethinking Home, Belonging, and the Potentials of Transnationalism
This article investigates how first-generation Australian-Hungarians' physical and social conceptions of home have been reconfigured by the changing political settings in Hungary after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I investigate whether the structural transformation after 1989 enabled Hungarians in Australia to shift their perception of the homeland from an abstract image to the homeland as a lived experience. This article suggests three main theo…
Between Suspicion and Trust
This chapter discusses the challenges encountered and mechanisms to deal with research in Brussels. It explores the context of Jewish Israeli women in Belgium. The chapter explores women's experiences of gender and gendered identities. It also explores the professional identity of these women and how they experienced being Jewish women in the Belgian workplace. It focuses on women's experiences of national identity and how they achieved a sense o…
The value of culturedness
In this paper we investigate how the values of respect and dignity inform the ways migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary in Australia locate themselves in relation to local, national and transnational identities. Drawing upon ethnographic insights, we discuss how the concept of culturedness is implicated in these migrant claims for dignified belonging. Determinants of culturedness are informed by influential narratives of ‘East versus …
From historical injustice to local conflict
This article explores the key to the successful mobilization process of the Trianon demonstration, organized by local Hungarians in Melbourne’s CBD in 2005. I argue that mobilization–countermobilization (hereafter MCM) dynamics holds the key to the understanding of the relatively high number of protest participants. In particular, I argue that we need to take a closer look at the dialogic framing activities within the MCM dynamics in order to und…
Struggling for cultural survival
The Hungarian immigrant community in Australia is struggling with cultural survival. The diaspora has experienced a general decline in community participation as a result of the aging of the émigré population and the rapid assimilation of subsequent generations. Using data derived from the series of annual community‐organised conferences called Megmaradásunk Konferenciák , this article compares the different discourses articulated by community le…
The cool welcome and the responses to it
This article examines the social aspects of Australian-Hungarians’ return to Hungary after the collapse of communism. I suggest that one of the most disillusioning aspects of homecoming for this group of Australian-Hungarians was the cold welcome they received from those who had stayed behind. The main task of this article is to analyse how returnees grappled with the negative attitudes of the stayees. Three major strategies are identified by mea…
Demonstrating Success
This article reexamines the concept of successful outcome and its relation to collective social action. Specifically, it looks at a demonstration organized by Australian-Hungarian community members in Melbourne, Australia, in 2005 that failed to meet any of its original goals, yet was nonetheless perceived as a success by participants. In order to make sense of this seeming disjuncture, I argue we need to understand the protest as a performance t…
Israeli Jews against the Wall
This paper deals with Jewish-Israeli activists who join Palestinian demonstrations in the occupied West Bank against the Separation Wall, the 800-kilometre-long, eight-metre-high wall that separates Palestinians and Israeli settlers. Jewish-Israeli activists who join the Palestinian-led struggle are placed in a challenging and unique position: they are members of the settler–colonial oppressor collective and benefit from this colonisation. Israel…
Waiting during the time of Covid‐19
‘Not anymore, not yet’
This article examines the return visits of Australian‐Hungarians to their homeland after 1989 and the different types of homecoming experiences after an extended period of separation. The focus of the paper is returnees’ perceptions of changes to Hungary or lack thereof. I analyse the distinction between the ‘desired/nostalgic past’, which Hungarian returnees nurtured during the decades of separation and expected to rediscover upon return, and th…
Nostalgia as double-edged sword
Based on multi-sited ethnography, this article examines the return visits of Australian-Hungarian diaspora subjects after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In particular, it explores how nostalgia becomes an instrument for navigating the ambiguities, paradoxes, and disappointments of return and forging new and creative relationships with the home country. I argue that as much as nostalgia has contributed to the shattering of returnees’ illusions in th…
One of my eyes was crying, the other was laughing
In this paper, I explore an under-researched aspect of migration, that is, the contradicting emotions experienced by diaspora concerning their original land. Specifically, I consider the ways in which ambivalence is evoked and expressed in the Australian – Hungarian homeland-related diasporic discourses following the Fall of Communism. To investigate how diaspora members accept a new and yet paradoxically ‘historic’ homeland, I employ Bakhtin’s p…
Small town markets and crowded buses
In this article, I examine the ‘homecoming’ experiences of young second‐ and third‐generation Australian‐Hungarians. The aim of the paper is to challenge the compartmentalisation of tourism and migration studies by exploring how these two phenomena intertwine, merge, and influence one another in multiple and fluid ways. Specifically, I attempt to merge the two disciplines by analysing the meta‐narratives that have influenced Australian‐Hungarian …
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (8 works) · History (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Diaspora (5 works)