Krisztina Varró
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krisztina Varró |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krisztina |
| FAMILY NAME | Varró |
| SIGNATURE | VARRÓ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8735-2548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cities of care? Towards more ‘scalar-attuned’ perspectives in urban care research
The expanding scholarship on ‘caring’ or ‘care-full’ cities has usefully reconceptualised cities as spaces of care and, by exposing real-world local initiatives, compellingly argued in favour centring care in urban governance and planning. Arguably, however, the insufficiently nuanced understanding and use of the concept of scale has weakened the analytical grip of this body of work on how and which practices and relations of care emerge, with wh…
Smart urban regeneration in Rotterdam
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East
This paper aims at advancing recent attempts, within the ever-expanding critical scholarship on ‘smart cities’, to ‘provincialise’ smart urbanism. First, it proposes to do so empirically by extending the scope of the provincialising agenda to the (relationally conceived) ‘Global Easts’ through a conjunctural analysis of Hungary’s smart urbanism. Second, by focusing on how the state-steered character of Hungary’s smart urbanism differs from that o…
Teaching gender under the rise of postfeminism
This paper discusses efforts to re-integrate feminist classroom perspectives and pedagogies within the undergraduate geography curriculum at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. As ‘feminist educators’ of this recently revised programme, we identify the mounting hegemony of postfeminist and neoliberal ideologies as key contextual challenges to our endeavour, coupled with the legacy of Dutch geography as a pragmatic, applied discipline. By zooming…
Discourses and practices of the smart city in Central Eastern Europe
This paper intends to fill a gap in critical smart city scholarship regarding the Central Eastern European (CEE) context. To this end, smart city understandings and practices in Hungary’s five (non-capital) major cities are examined through a discourse-analytical focus on relevant municipal planning documents, existing interventions and key actors’ interpretations. The paper concludes that although smart city building in Hungary in many ways alig…
Towards a multiscalar perspective on the prospects of ‘the actually existing smart village’ – a view from Hungary
This paper aims at expanding the scope of the dominantly pragmatic, local scale-oriented smart village scholarship towards a perspective that recognizes that smart village development is a multiscalar political process. To show the necessity of this move, the shaping of smart village policies and practices in Hungary is examined through a qualitative lens. As the authors argue, path-dependent structural obstacles and interscalar relations undermi…
Fostering a relational sense of place through video documentary assignments
Research on the use(fulness) of student-led film has emphasized the benefits of combining fieldwork and the production of moving image in terms of active, deep and reflexive learning. This paper contributes to this literature by discussing how a video documentary assignment can (also) help fostering relational thinking–a main objective of human geography education. Inspired by Doreen Massey’s notion of a “global sense of place”, the assignment as…
Bringing back the national to the study of globally circulating policy ideas
Recently proliferating ‘smart city’ building efforts have lent themselves well to interpretations through the lens of the policy mobilities literature. Applying this perspective, studies have insightfully shown how policymaking centred around smart cities is at once a messy, networked process stretching across scales, while also manifesting itself in concrete practices shaped by territorial–regulatory contexts. Informed by empirical research on s…
Running Rotterdam
Building on the insights of scholarship highlighting specific aspects of the forming of place meanings and experiences during running (events), this paper aims at applying a more holistic perspective on how meanings attached to and experiences of place by local runners are shaped through both individual and collective sense-making. Conceptually, the paper combines (post-)phenomenological and symbolic interactionist approaches. Empirically, the pa…
Problematizing data-driven urban practices
Divergens térfelfogások a tértudományokban – hogyan tovább
A magyar tértudományi diskurzusban az utóbbi másfél évtizedben élénk vita bontakozott ki azok között, akik szerint a tér a valóság eleve, az emberi értelemadástól függetlenül jelen levő része, illetve azok között, akik szerint a tér alapvetően társadalmi konstrukció, tehát mindig az ember általi jelentésképzés, az emberi praxis által befolyásolt. Jelen tanulmány célja, hogy az e két nézőpont képviselői között kialakult, látszólag megfeneklett esz…
Recognising the Emerging Transnational Spaces and Subjectivities of Cross-border Cooperation
Recently proliferating practice- and people-centred accounts have offered useful insights on cross-border regionalism and cooperation in the European Union. However, the assumption of these studies concerning the dominantly national character of people’s ‘spatial socialisation’ and practices has produced a subtle but problematic bias towards nation-state (re)bordering and, relatedly, has implied a lack of recognition for the formation of transnat…
Rethinking cross-border Euregionalism as self-organising system
Studies of cross-border regions in the European Union have struggled conceptually with an apparent ambiguity of Euregionalism: namely that cross-border regions seem to be the manifestations of reterritorialising state governance on the one hand, but have clearly failed to substantially challenge the Westphalian state territorial system on the other. The aim of the present paper is to develop a conceptual framework that helps us understand this pa…
Making (more) sense of political-economic geographies of continuity and change
In view of persisting and multiple ‘crises’, coming to grips with sociospatial change is one of the key tasks in geographical political economy today. However, to date, philosophical misunderstandings and the related lack of productive scholarly exchange has prevented this task from being satisfyingly addressed. In this paper I discuss the Cultural Political Economy approach and discourse theory in order to expose some key misunderstandings and t…
Spatial Imaginaries of the Dutch-German-Belgian Borderlands
Parallel to the proliferation of cross-border regional cooperation initiatives in the European Union, increasing scholarly attention has been given to conceptualizing cross-border governance in recent decades. In line with the recognition that cross-border regions have not undermined the significance of nation-state spaces but have added to their complexity, conceptual frameworks of analysis have become more and more refined. However, studies sti…
Conceptualizing the Region – In What Sense Relational
Varró K. and Lagendijk A. Conceptualizing the region – in what sense relational?, Regional Studies. Recently, the question of how to conceptualize the region seems to have created a division in geographical scholarship between those propagating the primacy of a relational view, on the one hand, and those defending the relevance of a territorial view, on the other. This paper argues that two main factors have impeded a fruitful discussion, to the …
Re‐Politicising the Analysis of “New State Spaces” in Hungary and Beyond
Recent scholarship grounded in strategic‐relational state theory has offered a compelling approach to state spatial restructuring under neoliberal capitalism. By drawing on Hungary's post‐1990 state spatial reforms, this paper discusses a major limitation of state theoretical frameworks. In particular, the paper seeks to challenge state theorists’ generally subtle but persistent bias to capitalist economic structures, and argues that the above bi…
Faragó László
Hall es Neitz szerint „a posztmodernistak joggal gondolhatjak, hogy mint rossz hirek hozoit, lelovik őket (Hall Neitz 1993, 260). Nos, ha ezzel nem is kell szamolniuk, azzal altalaban igen, hogy (egyik?) legfőbb „rossz hiruk miatt, mely szerint el kell vetnunk az abszolut megismerhető es objektiv valosag illuziojat, a vegtelen relativizmus vadjaval illetik őket. Farago Laszlo altalanos tervezeselmeletet bemutato konyve nem a tervezeshez kapcsolha…
A régió mint diszkurzív termék
A diszkurzív megközelítés terén a kilencvenes évektől kezdve igazi „boom" figyelhető meg, nem utolsósorban a területi kérdésekkel foglalkozó szakirodalomban is. Ez a nyelvi közlést előtérbe állító nézőpont a térfogalmakat mint az emberi kommunikáció nélkülözhetetlen elemeit és termékeit fogja fel, melyek maguk is a valóságot alakítják. A szerző tárgyalja ezek jellegzetességeit, illetve bemutatja, hogyan tekinthetünk a térstruktúrák létrejöttére m…
Conceptualizing the Region – In What Sense Relational
Varró K. and Lagendijk A. Conceptualizing the region – in what sense relational?, Regional Studies. Recently, the question of how to conceptualize the region seems to have created a division in geographical scholarship between those propagating the primacy of a relational view, on the one hand, and those defending the relevance of a territorial view, on the other. This paper argues that two main factors have impeded a fruitful discussion, to the …
Bringing back the national to the study of globally circulating policy ideas
Recently proliferating ‘smart city’ building efforts have lent themselves well to interpretations through the lens of the policy mobilities literature. Applying this perspective, studies have insightfully shown how policymaking centred around smart cities is at once a messy, networked process stretching across scales, while also manifesting itself in concrete practices shaped by territorial–regulatory contexts. Informed by empirical research on s…
Problematizing data-driven urban practices
Re‐Politicising the Analysis of “New State Spaces” in Hungary and Beyond
Recent scholarship grounded in strategic‐relational state theory has offered a compelling approach to state spatial restructuring under neoliberal capitalism. By drawing on Hungary's post‐1990 state spatial reforms, this paper discusses a major limitation of state theoretical frameworks. In particular, the paper seeks to challenge state theorists’ generally subtle but persistent bias to capitalist economic structures, and argues that the above bi…
Making (more) sense of political-economic geographies of continuity and change
In view of persisting and multiple ‘crises’, coming to grips with sociospatial change is one of the key tasks in geographical political economy today. However, to date, philosophical misunderstandings and the related lack of productive scholarly exchange has prevented this task from being satisfyingly addressed. In this paper I discuss the Cultural Political Economy approach and discourse theory in order to expose some key misunderstandings and t…
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East
This paper aims at advancing recent attempts, within the ever-expanding critical scholarship on ‘smart cities’, to ‘provincialise’ smart urbanism. First, it proposes to do so empirically by extending the scope of the provincialising agenda to the (relationally conceived) ‘Global Easts’ through a conjunctural analysis of Hungary’s smart urbanism. Second, by focusing on how the state-steered character of Hungary’s smart urbanism differs from that o…
Running Rotterdam
Building on the insights of scholarship highlighting specific aspects of the forming of place meanings and experiences during running (events), this paper aims at applying a more holistic perspective on how meanings attached to and experiences of place by local runners are shaped through both individual and collective sense-making. Conceptually, the paper combines (post-)phenomenological and symbolic interactionist approaches. Empirically, the pa…
Recognising the Emerging Transnational Spaces and Subjectivities of Cross-border Cooperation
Recently proliferating practice- and people-centred accounts have offered useful insights on cross-border regionalism and cooperation in the European Union. However, the assumption of these studies concerning the dominantly national character of people’s ‘spatial socialisation’ and practices has produced a subtle but problematic bias towards nation-state (re)bordering and, relatedly, has implied a lack of recognition for the formation of transnat…
Spatial Imaginaries of the Dutch-German-Belgian Borderlands
Parallel to the proliferation of cross-border regional cooperation initiatives in the European Union, increasing scholarly attention has been given to conceptualizing cross-border governance in recent decades. In line with the recognition that cross-border regions have not undermined the significance of nation-state spaces but have added to their complexity, conceptual frameworks of analysis have become more and more refined. However, studies sti…
Fostering a relational sense of place through video documentary assignments
Research on the use(fulness) of student-led film has emphasized the benefits of combining fieldwork and the production of moving image in terms of active, deep and reflexive learning. This paper contributes to this literature by discussing how a video documentary assignment can (also) help fostering relational thinking–a main objective of human geography education. Inspired by Doreen Massey’s notion of a “global sense of place”, the assignment as…
Rethinking cross-border Euregionalism as self-organising system
Studies of cross-border regions in the European Union have struggled conceptually with an apparent ambiguity of Euregionalism: namely that cross-border regions seem to be the manifestations of reterritorialising state governance on the one hand, but have clearly failed to substantially challenge the Westphalian state territorial system on the other. The aim of the present paper is to develop a conceptual framework that helps us understand this pa…
A régió mint diszkurzív termék
A diszkurzív megközelítés terén a kilencvenes évektől kezdve igazi „boom" figyelhető meg, nem utolsósorban a területi kérdésekkel foglalkozó szakirodalomban is. Ez a nyelvi közlést előtérbe állító nézőpont a térfogalmakat mint az emberi kommunikáció nélkülözhetetlen elemeit és termékeit fogja fel, melyek maguk is a valóságot alakítják. A szerző tárgyalja ezek jellegzetességeit, illetve bemutatja, hogyan tekinthetünk a térstruktúrák létrejöttére m…
Faragó László
Hall es Neitz szerint „a posztmodernistak joggal gondolhatjak, hogy mint rossz hirek hozoit, lelovik őket (Hall Neitz 1993, 260). Nos, ha ezzel nem is kell szamolniuk, azzal altalaban igen, hogy (egyik?) legfőbb „rossz hiruk miatt, mely szerint el kell vetnunk az abszolut megismerhető es objektiv valosag illuziojat, a vegtelen relativizmus vadjaval illetik őket. Farago Laszlo altalanos tervezeselmeletet bemutato konyve nem a tervezeshez kapcsolha…
Re‐Politicising the Analysis of “New State Spaces” in Hungary and Beyond
Recent scholarship grounded in strategic‐relational state theory has offered a compelling approach to state spatial restructuring under neoliberal capitalism. By drawing on Hungary's post‐1990 state spatial reforms, this paper discusses a major limitation of state theoretical frameworks. In particular, the paper seeks to challenge state theorists’ generally subtle but persistent bias to capitalist economic structures, and argues that the above bi…
Conceptualizing the Region – In What Sense Relational
Varró K. and Lagendijk A. Conceptualizing the region – in what sense relational?, Regional Studies. Recently, the question of how to conceptualize the region seems to have created a division in geographical scholarship between those propagating the primacy of a relational view, on the one hand, and those defending the relevance of a territorial view, on the other. This paper argues that two main factors have impeded a fruitful discussion, to the …
Rethinking cross-border Euregionalism as self-organising system
Studies of cross-border regions in the European Union have struggled conceptually with an apparent ambiguity of Euregionalism: namely that cross-border regions seem to be the manifestations of reterritorialising state governance on the one hand, but have clearly failed to substantially challenge the Westphalian state territorial system on the other. The aim of the present paper is to develop a conceptual framework that helps us understand this pa…
Making (more) sense of political-economic geographies of continuity and change
In view of persisting and multiple ‘crises’, coming to grips with sociospatial change is one of the key tasks in geographical political economy today. However, to date, philosophical misunderstandings and the related lack of productive scholarly exchange has prevented this task from being satisfyingly addressed. In this paper I discuss the Cultural Political Economy approach and discourse theory in order to expose some key misunderstandings and t…
Spatial Imaginaries of the Dutch-German-Belgian Borderlands
Parallel to the proliferation of cross-border regional cooperation initiatives in the European Union, increasing scholarly attention has been given to conceptualizing cross-border governance in recent decades. In line with the recognition that cross-border regions have not undermined the significance of nation-state spaces but have added to their complexity, conceptual frameworks of analysis have become more and more refined. However, studies sti…
Recognising the Emerging Transnational Spaces and Subjectivities of Cross-border Cooperation
Recently proliferating practice- and people-centred accounts have offered useful insights on cross-border regionalism and cooperation in the European Union. However, the assumption of these studies concerning the dominantly national character of people’s ‘spatial socialisation’ and practices has produced a subtle but problematic bias towards nation-state (re)bordering and, relatedly, has implied a lack of recognition for the formation of transnat…
Divergens térfelfogások a tértudományokban – hogyan tovább
A magyar tértudományi diskurzusban az utóbbi másfél évtizedben élénk vita bontakozott ki azok között, akik szerint a tér a valóság eleve, az emberi értelemadástól függetlenül jelen levő része, illetve azok között, akik szerint a tér alapvetően társadalmi konstrukció, tehát mindig az ember általi jelentésképzés, az emberi praxis által befolyásolt. Jelen tanulmány célja, hogy az e két nézőpont képviselői között kialakult, látszólag megfeneklett esz…
Bringing back the national to the study of globally circulating policy ideas
Recently proliferating ‘smart city’ building efforts have lent themselves well to interpretations through the lens of the policy mobilities literature. Applying this perspective, studies have insightfully shown how policymaking centred around smart cities is at once a messy, networked process stretching across scales, while also manifesting itself in concrete practices shaped by territorial–regulatory contexts. Informed by empirical research on s…
Running Rotterdam
Building on the insights of scholarship highlighting specific aspects of the forming of place meanings and experiences during running (events), this paper aims at applying a more holistic perspective on how meanings attached to and experiences of place by local runners are shaped through both individual and collective sense-making. Conceptually, the paper combines (post-)phenomenological and symbolic interactionist approaches. Empirically, the pa…
Problematizing data-driven urban practices
Fostering a relational sense of place through video documentary assignments
Research on the use(fulness) of student-led film has emphasized the benefits of combining fieldwork and the production of moving image in terms of active, deep and reflexive learning. This paper contributes to this literature by discussing how a video documentary assignment can (also) help fostering relational thinking–a main objective of human geography education. Inspired by Doreen Massey’s notion of a “global sense of place”, the assignment as…
Towards a multiscalar perspective on the prospects of ‘the actually existing smart village’ – a view from Hungary
This paper aims at expanding the scope of the dominantly pragmatic, local scale-oriented smart village scholarship towards a perspective that recognizes that smart village development is a multiscalar political process. To show the necessity of this move, the shaping of smart village policies and practices in Hungary is examined through a qualitative lens. As the authors argue, path-dependent structural obstacles and interscalar relations undermi…
Discourses and practices of the smart city in Central Eastern Europe
This paper intends to fill a gap in critical smart city scholarship regarding the Central Eastern European (CEE) context. To this end, smart city understandings and practices in Hungary’s five (non-capital) major cities are examined through a discourse-analytical focus on relevant municipal planning documents, existing interventions and key actors’ interpretations. The paper concludes that although smart city building in Hungary in many ways alig…
Teaching gender under the rise of postfeminism
This paper discusses efforts to re-integrate feminist classroom perspectives and pedagogies within the undergraduate geography curriculum at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. As ‘feminist educators’ of this recently revised programme, we identify the mounting hegemony of postfeminist and neoliberal ideologies as key contextual challenges to our endeavour, coupled with the legacy of Dutch geography as a pragmatic, applied discipline. By zooming…
Smart urban regeneration in Rotterdam
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East
This paper aims at advancing recent attempts, within the ever-expanding critical scholarship on ‘smart cities’, to ‘provincialise’ smart urbanism. First, it proposes to do so empirically by extending the scope of the provincialising agenda to the (relationally conceived) ‘Global Easts’ through a conjunctural analysis of Hungary’s smart urbanism. Second, by focusing on how the state-steered character of Hungary’s smart urbanism differs from that o…
Cities of care? Towards more ‘scalar-attuned’ perspectives in urban care research
The expanding scholarship on ‘caring’ or ‘care-full’ cities has usefully reconceptualised cities as spaces of care and, by exposing real-world local initiatives, compellingly argued in favour centring care in urban governance and planning. Arguably, however, the insufficiently nuanced understanding and use of the concept of scale has weakened the analytical grip of this body of work on how and which practices and relations of care emerge, with wh…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Scholarship (5 works)