Ágnes Horváth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ágnes Horváth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ágnes |
| FAMILY NAME | Horváth |
| SIGNATURE | HORVÁTH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2043-5189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The impact of social media activity on destination networking in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia
The study aims to investigate and analyse the social media, precisely the Instagram activity of several hotels in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Having been the second most popular destination besides Bali, it is mainly dominated by domestic tourism. Although several governmental institutions exist, the study focuses on the hotel’s activity only. The main purpose was to find, that after the classification of the posts, whether there is a more…
Language Skills and Communication Strategies of Hungarian Health Visitors Working with Multicultural Families – Implications for ESP Material Design
In response to Hungary’s growing multicultural population, health visitors increasingly face language and cultural challenges in their daily work. This practitioner research examines the language skills and communication strategies of Hungarian health visitors working with multicultural families. Conducted by language educators, translators, and a health visitor, the study aims to inform the development of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) mate…
Online content analysis between bike related attributes and review content in case of Budapest
Active tourism, in our case bicycle tourism has been a proof of health benefits as well as responsible, sustainable way of transport. As tourist move around to see sights as well as gather experiences, this is a way to be efficient and green effective. This study aims to investigate bicycle tourism in cities, especially focusing on decision making as a bicycle tourist, when it comes to online bookings system, focusing on choosing a hotel. Method:…
Virtual Tour as a Virtual Experience of Destination Management Organisations in Slovakia
An evaluation of ‘Destination Management Organisation’ (DMO) websites focused on creating attractive, user-friendly, and informative web pages that effectively promote tourism destinations to potential customers. The virtual tour as an innovative tool and form of tourism experience has potential to act as a powerful destination promotion tool. Therefore, for DMOs it may be especially beneficial in terms of destination marketing to offer attractiv…
Visions of Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Specialists About the Future of Work and Their Roles
In an international context where social effects and ethics related to artificial intelligence (AI) are receiving more attention, there is a dearth of research about how AI specialists perceive the future of work and their role in bringing about the respective future. Does the fact that ethics and social issues are receiving more publicity impact AI specialists’ views? The current study advances knowledge about this issue by describing a deep qua…
Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded
Sociology of Walking
Walking on two feet is both the most simple and basic of activities and is what has made us human. While for long ignored, walking as a practice and a theme is increasingly receiving attention, highlighted by the popularity of the Camino de Santiago. An embodied, multisensory, lived experience, involving participation and presence, walking brings out and alleviates the increasing unreality of the contemporary world. Central themes and methods in …
Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery
The Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
The book presents some arguments why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful to understand the connected political and cultural challenges and opportunities posed by the situation of ethnic and religious minorities. The first chapter shortly introduces the major anthropological concepts used, including liminality, trickster, imitation and schismogenesis; concepts that are used together with approaches of historical soc…
Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations
Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Individualization as Depersonalization: Minority Studies and Political Anthropology
This article offers an introduction to the special issue. It presents the arguments why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful to understand the connected political and cultural challenges and opportunities posed by the situation of ethnic and religious minorities. The article concisely introduces the major anthropological concepts used, including liminality, trickster, imitation, and schismogenesis; concepts that are…
Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking
Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking
The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the emergence of cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of long-distance ‘pilgrimages’, implying a descent into such caves, thus literally the ‘void’; and the abandonment of walking cultur…
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicabil…
Attraction and Crowd Passions: Isaac Newton and Jacques Callot
The question of the multiplicative automatism that can be derived out of the liminal again takes us back to the heart of classical philosophical anthropology, or the very foundations of social and political analysis. In particular, we can consider the work of Plato, who argued that imitation had become a threatening moving force of then contemporary forms of social and political life, which he identified in several writings as being simulated and…
Modernism and Charisma
Looking at the relationship between modernity and the rise of charismatic leaders, Agnes Horvath uses 'threshold' situations to trace the conditions out of which political regimes developed. The focus
The fascination with eros: The role of passionate interests under communism
Plato’s work offers insights into the corrosive impact of eros, insights central for contemporary politics. The article combines an in-depth reading of Plato with a case study, arguing for the relevance of communism. This is because love also establishes a relationship of subordination to the object of desire, which can subjugate and entrap the lover in his or her feelings. Such instrumentalization of eros in communism was promoted by adherents b…
The gravity of eros in the contemporary: Introduction to the special section
The study of eros as passionate devotion leads back to the classical foundations of social and political analysis, in particular Plato’s philosophical anthropology, focusing on imitation and not rationality as the moving force of social life
Pulcinella, or the metaphysics of the nulla: In between politics and theatre
This article argues that Pulcinella, a figure of classical Italian commedia dell’arte, could also be considered as emblematic for the reordering of politics in the early-modern and modern periods. By placing emphasis on the common underlying theatrical aspects of ‘representation’, it effectively connects the absolutist and democratic periods and helps us to understand why actors and acting came to play such a prominent role in contemporary politi…
Europe in teaching practice – national and international experiences
During the past six years I was fortunate to teach European Studies to Hungarian and foreign students within teacher training and further education as well. The lecture tries to summarize the most important features and approaches used in teacher training programmes, special programmes for in-service teachers and international seminars. The key questions of the approach are: How to define Europe as historical, geographical and cultural phenomena;…
Local Governments, Civil Society Organizations and Private Enterprises – Partnerships in Providing Social Services: The Case of Eger, Hungary
The paper seeks to identify those elements of the cultural and historical background and the present challenges that have a significant impact on the cooperation between government agencies, civil society organisations, and private firms. Based on the anecdotal and research information available in a middle-size Hungarian town (Eger), the authors give an overview of joint efforts made in the fields of policy making, fund raising, and service prov…
Le crime de la compassion
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Tricking into the Position of the Outcast: A Case Study in the Emergency and Effects of Communist Power
This paper is an experiment in understanding the logic of communism from the perspective of political psychology. In Hungary, communism became a means for transforming the entire psychical make‐up of a country in a moment of reduced intensity of consciousness, a transitory or liminal period, produced by the Second World War. In liminal conditions, unconscious impulses are set free that are channeled by the use of archetypical images. As an empiri…
Tricking into the Position of the Outcast: A Case Study in the Emergency and Effects of Communist Power
This paper is an experiment in understanding the logic of communism from the perspective of political psychology. In Hungary, communism became a means for transforming the entire psychical make‐up of a country in a moment of reduced intensity of consciousness, a transitory or liminal period, produced by the Second World War. In liminal conditions, unconscious impulses are set free that are channeled by the use of archetypical images. As an empiri…
Political Instructors and the Decline of Communism in Hungary: Apparatus, Nomenclatura and the Issue of Legacy
This article, based on empirical research conducted in Hungary, interprets and assesses some aspects of the revolutionary changes that happened in Eastern Europe in 1990. The lack of distinction made between the apparatus and the nomenclatura represented a serious impediment to the understanding of both the nature and the dissolution of communist power. Some results of a survey conducted among the party apparatus in Budapest in the autumn of 1988…
Pulcinella, or the metaphysics of the nulla: In between politics and theatre
This article argues that Pulcinella, a figure of classical Italian commedia dell’arte, could also be considered as emblematic for the reordering of politics in the early-modern and modern periods. By placing emphasis on the common underlying theatrical aspects of ‘representation’, it effectively connects the absolutist and democratic periods and helps us to understand why actors and acting came to play such a prominent role in contemporary politi…
Information Management in Bolshevik-type Party States: A Version of the Information Society
Individualization as Depersonalization: Minority Studies and Political Anthropology
This article offers an introduction to the special issue. It presents the arguments why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful to understand the connected political and cultural challenges and opportunities posed by the situation of ethnic and religious minorities. The article concisely introduces the major anthropological concepts used, including liminality, trickster, imitation, and schismogenesis; concepts that are…
Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking
The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the emergence of cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of long-distance ‘pilgrimages’, implying a descent into such caves, thus literally the ‘void’; and the abandonment of walking cultur…
Local Governments, Civil Society Organizations and Private Enterprises – Partnerships in Providing Social Services: The Case of Eger, Hungary
The paper seeks to identify those elements of the cultural and historical background and the present challenges that have a significant impact on the cooperation between government agencies, civil society organisations, and private firms. Based on the anecdotal and research information available in a middle-size Hungarian town (Eger), the authors give an overview of joint efforts made in the fields of policy making, fund raising, and service prov…
Information Management in Bolshevik-type Party States: A Version of the Information Society
Political Instructors and the Decline of Communism in Hungary: Apparatus, Nomenclatura and the Issue of Legacy
This article, based on empirical research conducted in Hungary, interprets and assesses some aspects of the revolutionary changes that happened in Eastern Europe in 1990. The lack of distinction made between the apparatus and the nomenclatura represented a serious impediment to the understanding of both the nature and the dissolution of communist power. Some results of a survey conducted among the party apparatus in Budapest in the autumn of 1988…
Tricking into the Position of the Outcast: A Case Study in the Emergency and Effects of Communist Power
This paper is an experiment in understanding the logic of communism from the perspective of political psychology. In Hungary, communism became a means for transforming the entire psychical make‐up of a country in a moment of reduced intensity of consciousness, a transitory or liminal period, produced by the Second World War. In liminal conditions, unconscious impulses are set free that are channeled by the use of archetypical images. As an empiri…
Le crime de la compassion
)#($#/D=?0 *(%+) * /)!EF *, + !-.!/ 0$($0'EF 0 ..! 1 .! !*, + !*, +)/.;")/2!:)EGFA0'.2*-,+0
Local Governments, Civil Society Organizations and Private Enterprises – Partnerships in Providing Social Services: The Case of Eger, Hungary
The paper seeks to identify those elements of the cultural and historical background and the present challenges that have a significant impact on the cooperation between government agencies, civil society organisations, and private firms. Based on the anecdotal and research information available in a middle-size Hungarian town (Eger), the authors give an overview of joint efforts made in the fields of policy making, fund raising, and service prov…
Europe in teaching practice – national and international experiences
During the past six years I was fortunate to teach European Studies to Hungarian and foreign students within teacher training and further education as well. The lecture tries to summarize the most important features and approaches used in teacher training programmes, special programmes for in-service teachers and international seminars. The key questions of the approach are: How to define Europe as historical, geographical and cultural phenomena;…
Pulcinella, or the metaphysics of the nulla: In between politics and theatre
This article argues that Pulcinella, a figure of classical Italian commedia dell’arte, could also be considered as emblematic for the reordering of politics in the early-modern and modern periods. By placing emphasis on the common underlying theatrical aspects of ‘representation’, it effectively connects the absolutist and democratic periods and helps us to understand why actors and acting came to play such a prominent role in contemporary politi…
Attraction and Crowd Passions: Isaac Newton and Jacques Callot
The question of the multiplicative automatism that can be derived out of the liminal again takes us back to the heart of classical philosophical anthropology, or the very foundations of social and political analysis. In particular, we can consider the work of Plato, who argued that imitation had become a threatening moving force of then contemporary forms of social and political life, which he identified in several writings as being simulated and…
Modernism and Charisma
Looking at the relationship between modernity and the rise of charismatic leaders, Agnes Horvath uses 'threshold' situations to trace the conditions out of which political regimes developed. The focus
The fascination with eros: The role of passionate interests under communism
Plato’s work offers insights into the corrosive impact of eros, insights central for contemporary politics. The article combines an in-depth reading of Plato with a case study, arguing for the relevance of communism. This is because love also establishes a relationship of subordination to the object of desire, which can subjugate and entrap the lover in his or her feelings. Such instrumentalization of eros in communism was promoted by adherents b…
The gravity of eros in the contemporary: Introduction to the special section
The study of eros as passionate devotion leads back to the classical foundations of social and political analysis, in particular Plato’s philosophical anthropology, focusing on imitation and not rationality as the moving force of social life
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicabil…
Individualization as Depersonalization: Minority Studies and Political Anthropology
This article offers an introduction to the special issue. It presents the arguments why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful to understand the connected political and cultural challenges and opportunities posed by the situation of ethnic and religious minorities. The article concisely introduces the major anthropological concepts used, including liminality, trickster, imitation, and schismogenesis; concepts that are…
Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking
Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking
The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the emergence of cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of long-distance ‘pilgrimages’, implying a descent into such caves, thus literally the ‘void’; and the abandonment of walking cultur…
The Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
The book presents some arguments why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful to understand the connected political and cultural challenges and opportunities posed by the situation of ethnic and religious minorities. The first chapter shortly introduces the major anthropological concepts used, including liminality, trickster, imitation and schismogenesis; concepts that are used together with approaches of historical soc…
Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations
Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Sociology of Walking
Walking on two feet is both the most simple and basic of activities and is what has made us human. While for long ignored, walking as a practice and a theme is increasingly receiving attention, highlighted by the popularity of the Camino de Santiago. An embodied, multisensory, lived experience, involving participation and presence, walking brings out and alleviates the increasing unreality of the contemporary world. Central themes and methods in …
Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery
Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded
Virtual Tour as a Virtual Experience of Destination Management Organisations in Slovakia
An evaluation of ‘Destination Management Organisation’ (DMO) websites focused on creating attractive, user-friendly, and informative web pages that effectively promote tourism destinations to potential customers. The virtual tour as an innovative tool and form of tourism experience has potential to act as a powerful destination promotion tool. Therefore, for DMOs it may be especially beneficial in terms of destination marketing to offer attractiv…
Visions of Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Specialists About the Future of Work and Their Roles
In an international context where social effects and ethics related to artificial intelligence (AI) are receiving more attention, there is a dearth of research about how AI specialists perceive the future of work and their role in bringing about the respective future. Does the fact that ethics and social issues are receiving more publicity impact AI specialists’ views? The current study advances knowledge about this issue by describing a deep qua…
Online content analysis between bike related attributes and review content in case of Budapest
Active tourism, in our case bicycle tourism has been a proof of health benefits as well as responsible, sustainable way of transport. As tourist move around to see sights as well as gather experiences, this is a way to be efficient and green effective. This study aims to investigate bicycle tourism in cities, especially focusing on decision making as a bicycle tourist, when it comes to online bookings system, focusing on choosing a hotel. Method:…
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