Agnes Gagyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 304182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agnes Gagyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agnes |
| FAMILY NAME | Gagyi |
| SIGNATURE | GAGYI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8124-4530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Planting flowers into potholes”: Urban community gardens as symptoms of institutional shortfall
This paper addresses a long-standing debate in urban gardens research, regarding an uneasy relationship between the accepted understanding of urban gardening as a policy tool for urban sustainability, and empirical studies’ recurrent demonstration of the limited and contradictory nature of urban gardening projects. Based on criticisms of “methodological cityism” in political ecology, which have emphasised broader contextual transformations beyond…
Polyalignment as geoeconomic bridging: Hungary’s reindustrialisation amid global protectionism
Dependent development under geopolitical reconfiguration: The Orbán regime in Hungary
Limits and openings for peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization: A case from Budapest
Assembling social conditions of sustainability through urban gardening: Policy, Infrastructure and Social Relationships
The politics of foreign-currency housing debt in Hungary's authoritarian capitalist reconfiguration after 2010
The article discusses how forex (foreign exchange) mortgage debtors' mobilizations interacted with right-wing populist politics and the construction of a new financial regime in Hungary after 2008. With reference to Nicos Poulantzas's 1974 conceptualization of stages of authoritarian statism, we analyze these interactions in terms of the political dynamics of capitalist crisis management, where movement alliances, state power centralization and c…
A structural view on housing movements: Strategic lessons from a field of contention approach
In this article, we share strategic lessons from applying a ‘structural field of contention’ approach to a comparative study of housing struggles in Hungary and Romania since 1989. The aim is not to highlight details and specificities, but to show the benefits of looking beyond individual progressive movements in focus of most previous literature, instead capturing the ideological and structural complexity of housing contention, with different po…
Crise global e o realinhamento das alianças da classe capitalista do Leste Europeu: O Caso Do Illiberalismo Húngaro
Este artigo discute o surgimento do atual regime autoritário da Hungria como resultado de um processo que se iniciou com a transformação do regime socialista de Estado e passou pelo regime pós-socialista neoliberal. Essa transformação afetou as relações entre o Estado e a classes sociais, o controle político do Estado e a configuração das relações geopolíticas da Hungria com a União Europeia, a Rússia e a China. O ensaio examina como as tensões d…
FX mortgages in Hungary: Political crisis and capitalist reconstruction
This paper deals with the politics of the boom, crisis and aftermath of foreign currency-denominated (FX) lending in Hungary from the 2000s to the 2010s, focusing on the most problematic CHF loans. Here, the rolling out of FX mortgages was part of the late stage and crisis of Hungary’s neoliberal postsocialist model, and the politicization of the ensuing FX crisis became part of the conservative reorganization of the economy by the post-2010 Fide…
Introduction: Boom, crisis and politics of Swiss franc mortgages in Eastern Europe: comparing trajectories of dependent financialization of housing
This Special Feature is the first regional and holistic comparative study of Swiss franc (CHF) mortgages in Eastern Europe from the mid-2000s up to now. We examine this form of lending as a critical mechanism of the dependent financialization of housing in the region and look at its political and class-based repercussions in the four most significant national cases: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Serbia. This introduction reviews and connects the s…
Frontiers of civil society: Government and hegemony in Serbia
Marek Mikus’ book expands an important tradition of empirically-based critical research on one of the main ideational and institutional concepts of post-socialist transition: civil society. The nor
A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and Budapest
The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality…
Ruling Ideas: How Global Neoliberalism Goes Local
The value of labor: The science of commodification in Hungary, 1920–1956
The value of labor: the science of commodification in Hungary, 1920–1956." Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 25(3), pp. 389–390
Coloniality of power” in East Central Europe: External penetration as internal force in post-socialist Hungarian politics
Joining a series of analyses of effects of othering, orientalism, or coloniality in East Central Europe, the paper asks how long-term structural-ideological effects of global hierarchies, as reflected in post-colonial contexts by the term “coloniality of power,” can be conceptualized for East Central Europe. In a case study of political polarization in post-socialist Hungary,it examines the effects of global integration, claiming that two dominan…
Reform economics at the Financial Research Institute in late socialist Hungary: A case of globally embedded knowledge production
The paper addresses this issue’s subject of the question of East/West hierarchies in academe, and the conditions of the epistemic position and public authority of East and Central European scholarship, through a case study of a major institute of Hungarian reform economics, the Financial Research Institute (FRI), and a moment of political critique by its experts in 1986, asserted in the political pamphlet ‘Change and Reform’. The paper points out…
Class and Social Structure in Hungarian Sociology
The article follows changes in the paradigms and institutional context of Hungarian sociology of social structure, as formed by Hungary’s double dependence on Soviet and Western cores throughout the second part of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that as a result of those changes, the concept of class has been absent from the sociology of social structure from the early 1970s on. Thinking towards a possible reconstruction of twentieth-centu…
Coloniality of power” in East Central Europe: External penetration as internal force in post-socialist Hungarian politics
Joining a series of analyses of effects of othering, orientalism, or coloniality in East Central Europe, the paper asks how long-term structural-ideological effects of global hierarchies, as reflected in post-colonial contexts by the term “coloniality of power,” can be conceptualized for East Central Europe. In a case study of political polarization in post-socialist Hungary,it examines the effects of global integration, claiming that two dominan…
A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and Budapest
The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality…
Class and Social Structure in Hungarian Sociology
The article follows changes in the paradigms and institutional context of Hungarian sociology of social structure, as formed by Hungary’s double dependence on Soviet and Western cores throughout the second part of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that as a result of those changes, the concept of class has been absent from the sociology of social structure from the early 1970s on. Thinking towards a possible reconstruction of twentieth-centu…
Dependent development under geopolitical reconfiguration: The Orbán regime in Hungary
Limits and openings for peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization: A case from Budapest
Introduction: Boom, crisis and politics of Swiss franc mortgages in Eastern Europe: comparing trajectories of dependent financialization of housing
This Special Feature is the first regional and holistic comparative study of Swiss franc (CHF) mortgages in Eastern Europe from the mid-2000s up to now. We examine this form of lending as a critical mechanism of the dependent financialization of housing in the region and look at its political and class-based repercussions in the four most significant national cases: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Serbia. This introduction reviews and connects the s…
FX mortgages in Hungary: Political crisis and capitalist reconstruction
This paper deals with the politics of the boom, crisis and aftermath of foreign currency-denominated (FX) lending in Hungary from the 2000s to the 2010s, focusing on the most problematic CHF loans. Here, the rolling out of FX mortgages was part of the late stage and crisis of Hungary’s neoliberal postsocialist model, and the politicization of the ensuing FX crisis became part of the conservative reorganization of the economy by the post-2010 Fide…
The politics of foreign-currency housing debt in Hungary's authoritarian capitalist reconfiguration after 2010
The article discusses how forex (foreign exchange) mortgage debtors' mobilizations interacted with right-wing populist politics and the construction of a new financial regime in Hungary after 2008. With reference to Nicos Poulantzas's 1974 conceptualization of stages of authoritarian statism, we analyze these interactions in terms of the political dynamics of capitalist crisis management, where movement alliances, state power centralization and c…
Reform economics at the Financial Research Institute in late socialist Hungary: A case of globally embedded knowledge production
The paper addresses this issue’s subject of the question of East/West hierarchies in academe, and the conditions of the epistemic position and public authority of East and Central European scholarship, through a case study of a major institute of Hungarian reform economics, the Financial Research Institute (FRI), and a moment of political critique by its experts in 1986, asserted in the political pamphlet ‘Change and Reform’. The paper points out…
Class and Social Structure in Hungarian Sociology
The article follows changes in the paradigms and institutional context of Hungarian sociology of social structure, as formed by Hungary’s double dependence on Soviet and Western cores throughout the second part of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that as a result of those changes, the concept of class has been absent from the sociology of social structure from the early 1970s on. Thinking towards a possible reconstruction of twentieth-centu…
Coloniality of power” in East Central Europe: External penetration as internal force in post-socialist Hungarian politics
Joining a series of analyses of effects of othering, orientalism, or coloniality in East Central Europe, the paper asks how long-term structural-ideological effects of global hierarchies, as reflected in post-colonial contexts by the term “coloniality of power,” can be conceptualized for East Central Europe. In a case study of political polarization in post-socialist Hungary,it examines the effects of global integration, claiming that two dominan…
The value of labor: The science of commodification in Hungary, 1920–1956
The value of labor: the science of commodification in Hungary, 1920–1956." Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 25(3), pp. 389–390
A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and Budapest
The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality…
Ruling Ideas: How Global Neoliberalism Goes Local
Frontiers of civil society: Government and hegemony in Serbia
Marek Mikus’ book expands an important tradition of empirically-based critical research on one of the main ideational and institutional concepts of post-socialist transition: civil society. The nor
Crise global e o realinhamento das alianças da classe capitalista do Leste Europeu: O Caso Do Illiberalismo Húngaro
Este artigo discute o surgimento do atual regime autoritário da Hungria como resultado de um processo que se iniciou com a transformação do regime socialista de Estado e passou pelo regime pós-socialista neoliberal. Essa transformação afetou as relações entre o Estado e a classes sociais, o controle político do Estado e a configuração das relações geopolíticas da Hungria com a União Europeia, a Rússia e a China. O ensaio examina como as tensões d…
FX mortgages in Hungary: Political crisis and capitalist reconstruction
This paper deals with the politics of the boom, crisis and aftermath of foreign currency-denominated (FX) lending in Hungary from the 2000s to the 2010s, focusing on the most problematic CHF loans. Here, the rolling out of FX mortgages was part of the late stage and crisis of Hungary’s neoliberal postsocialist model, and the politicization of the ensuing FX crisis became part of the conservative reorganization of the economy by the post-2010 Fide…
Introduction: Boom, crisis and politics of Swiss franc mortgages in Eastern Europe: comparing trajectories of dependent financialization of housing
This Special Feature is the first regional and holistic comparative study of Swiss franc (CHF) mortgages in Eastern Europe from the mid-2000s up to now. We examine this form of lending as a critical mechanism of the dependent financialization of housing in the region and look at its political and class-based repercussions in the four most significant national cases: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Serbia. This introduction reviews and connects the s…
A structural view on housing movements: Strategic lessons from a field of contention approach
In this article, we share strategic lessons from applying a ‘structural field of contention’ approach to a comparative study of housing struggles in Hungary and Romania since 1989. The aim is not to highlight details and specificities, but to show the benefits of looking beyond individual progressive movements in focus of most previous literature, instead capturing the ideological and structural complexity of housing contention, with different po…
Polyalignment as geoeconomic bridging: Hungary’s reindustrialisation amid global protectionism
Dependent development under geopolitical reconfiguration: The Orbán regime in Hungary
Limits and openings for peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization: A case from Budapest
Assembling social conditions of sustainability through urban gardening: Policy, Infrastructure and Social Relationships
The politics of foreign-currency housing debt in Hungary's authoritarian capitalist reconfiguration after 2010
The article discusses how forex (foreign exchange) mortgage debtors' mobilizations interacted with right-wing populist politics and the construction of a new financial regime in Hungary after 2008. With reference to Nicos Poulantzas's 1974 conceptualization of stages of authoritarian statism, we analyze these interactions in terms of the political dynamics of capitalist crisis management, where movement alliances, state power centralization and c…
“Planting flowers into potholes”: Urban community gardens as symptoms of institutional shortfall
This paper addresses a long-standing debate in urban gardens research, regarding an uneasy relationship between the accepted understanding of urban gardening as a policy tool for urban sustainability, and empirical studies’ recurrent demonstration of the limited and contradictory nature of urban gardening projects. Based on criticisms of “methodological cityism” in political ecology, which have emphasised broader contextual transformations beyond…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works)