Molnar
Biographic Data
| ID | 88294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Molnar |
| FAMILY NAME | Molnar |
| SIGNATURE | MOLNAR |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1156-9238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2430 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Fashioning the nation in the age of populism
Dress and fashion are both an important site and an idiom through which political conflicts, over cultural membership, such as national and ethnic belonging, are played out. In this article, I use Hungary as a case study to map the various ways in which fashion is used today in populist regimes to delineate the symbolic boundaries of the nation by generating powerful material and visual definitions of belonging, identity, sovereignty, community, …
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism
The article explores how cross-border heritage tourism is promoted in public schools to reimagine Hungary as an ethnically homogeneous nation by incorporating ethnic kin communities that live in neighboring countries. Cross-border heritage tourism has long served to establish strong ties to ethnic diaspora communities that live beyond the territorial borders of the nation-state. National borders in Central and Eastern Europe were repeatedly redra…
The Toolkit of Nationalist Populism in Contemporary Hungary: Symbols, Objects, and Modalities of Circulation
This article belongs to the special cluster, “National, European, Transnational: Far-right activism in the 20th and 21st centuries”, guest edited by Agnieszka Pasieka. Research on populism attributes great significance to mapping the distinctive discursive logic of populist reasoning (e.g., the trope of pitting corrupt elites against the people). This article aims to move beyond the primary focus on discursive structures to stress the role of sym…
Russia’s Night Wolves, Migrating Memory and Europe’s Eastern Frontier
The article examines the controversy triggered by the “Victory Tour” of Russia’s high-profile biker organization, the Night Wolves, to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. The tour provoked important questions about the relationship between European borders and the politics of World War II commemoration. The article argues that the international public discourse around the Night Wolves illuminates how state bord…
The business of urban coolness: Emerging markets for street art
New York's New Edge: Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side
Street Art and the Changing Urban Public Sphere
The essay examines street art as a lens on the workings of the contemporary public sphere to capture changing uses of urban public spaces and shifting conceptions of social order in the city. It explores the explosion in the popularity of street art at a time when urban public space is shrinking and control over its use has tightened considerably through zero-tolerance policing, growing surveillance, privatization, and gentrification. It argues t…
Civil society, radicalism and the rediscovery of mythic nationalism
The article argues that contrary to the widely held view that traces the recent rise of illiberalism in H ungary and E astern E urope to a weak civil society, the past decade has witnessed a surge of civil society activism. But rather than working exclusively towards strengthening and complementing liberal political institutions, civil society has also provided fertile soil to the spread of right‐wing populism, radicalism and xenophobia. The anal…
The Power of Things: Material Culture as Political Resource
Reframing Public Space Through Digital Mobilization: Flash Mobs and Contemporary Urban Youth Culture
Flash mobs have spread, like wildfire, across the globe in recent years fuelling new uses of urban public space. The media has wondered if these events are simply pointless pranks, creative public performances, or mass social experiments in community building. Existing research emphasizes only the vital role of digital communications technology in the mobilization process. In contrast, this analysis shows through a broad range of examples from Ne…
Collective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History
Much organizational identity research has grappled with the question of identity emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on an analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost 50 years, we theorize a link between collective memory and organizational identity endurance. More specifically, we show how forgetting in a firm's ongoing rhetorical history—here…
Reconfiguring Private and Public: State, Capital and New Housing Developments in Berlin and Budapest
This article explores how new planned housing developments have contributed to the restructuring of public and private space in contemporary Berlin and Budapest, two cities whose globalisation was complicated by major political and economic transformation during the past two decades. It draws on and extends research on gated communities to develop a relational approach that more adequately captures international variations of this housing form an…
The Cultural Production of Locality: Reclaiming the 'European City' in Post-Wall Berlin
Berlin's post-1989 rebuilding is used to explore the role of cultural professionals, exemplified by architects and urban planners, in the production of locality. Drawing on an analysis of architectural debates, competitions and building projects, the article traces how the model of the 'European city' became the dominant paradigm of urban reconstruction in the 1990s and what precisely was understood by the term 'European city'. In so doing, the a…
Cultural Politics and Modernist Architecture: The Tulip Debate in Postwar Hungary
The article focuses on the interpretive struggles and contests surrounding the adoption and legitimation of fully or partly "imported" ideas. It examines the reception of modernist architecture in post-1945 Hungary to improve our understanding of how international cultural paradigms are incorporated into a particular national context. It maps the processes through which modernist architecture came to be institutionalized in Hungary as a cultural …
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology. This article surveys some of these developments while describing the value added provided by the concept, particularly concerning the study of relational processes. It discusses literatures on (a) social and collective identity; (b) class, ethnic/racial, and gender/sex ine…
How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape their Collective Identity: Evidence from marketing specialists
This article develops a ‘social identity’ perspective to the study of consumption. It builds on Richard Jenkins’ distinction between internal and external definitions of collective identity and explores the interplay of these definitions in the realm of consumption. Evidence is collected from interviews with marketing professionals who specialize in the African-American market segment to show that this theoretical approach complements and improve…
Noise, Form, Art
The concept of form is of the most exciting notions that human consciousness has created, developed and manipulated. It is, in the words of Colin Cherry, one of those rare bridges between science and art [1]. The concept of form, in the broadest sense of the word, is reduced by computer scientists to a lack of randomness within an organised set of elements. By this measure, the fundamental property of form is a negative one: nonrandomness. Comput…
Frequency of red/green colour blindness in twenty-seven Hungarian populations
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology. This article surveys some of these developments while describing the value added provided by the concept, particularly concerning the study of relational processes. It discusses literatures on (a) social and collective identity; (b) class, ethnic/racial, and gender/sex ine…
How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape their Collective Identity: Evidence from marketing specialists
This article develops a ‘social identity’ perspective to the study of consumption. It builds on Richard Jenkins’ distinction between internal and external definitions of collective identity and explores the interplay of these definitions in the realm of consumption. Evidence is collected from interviews with marketing professionals who specialize in the African-American market segment to show that this theoretical approach complements and improve…
Civil society, radicalism and the rediscovery of mythic nationalism
The article argues that contrary to the widely held view that traces the recent rise of illiberalism in H ungary and E astern E urope to a weak civil society, the past decade has witnessed a surge of civil society activism. But rather than working exclusively towards strengthening and complementing liberal political institutions, civil society has also provided fertile soil to the spread of right‐wing populism, radicalism and xenophobia. The anal…
Cultural Politics and Modernist Architecture: The Tulip Debate in Postwar Hungary
The article focuses on the interpretive struggles and contests surrounding the adoption and legitimation of fully or partly "imported" ideas. It examines the reception of modernist architecture in post-1945 Hungary to improve our understanding of how international cultural paradigms are incorporated into a particular national context. It maps the processes through which modernist architecture came to be institutionalized in Hungary as a cultural …
Reframing Public Space Through Digital Mobilization: Flash Mobs and Contemporary Urban Youth Culture
Flash mobs have spread, like wildfire, across the globe in recent years fuelling new uses of urban public space. The media has wondered if these events are simply pointless pranks, creative public performances, or mass social experiments in community building. Existing research emphasizes only the vital role of digital communications technology in the mobilization process. In contrast, this analysis shows through a broad range of examples from Ne…
Reconfiguring Private and Public: State, Capital and New Housing Developments in Berlin and Budapest
This article explores how new planned housing developments have contributed to the restructuring of public and private space in contemporary Berlin and Budapest, two cities whose globalisation was complicated by major political and economic transformation during the past two decades. It draws on and extends research on gated communities to develop a relational approach that more adequately captures international variations of this housing form an…
Street Art and the Changing Urban Public Sphere
The essay examines street art as a lens on the workings of the contemporary public sphere to capture changing uses of urban public spaces and shifting conceptions of social order in the city. It explores the explosion in the popularity of street art at a time when urban public space is shrinking and control over its use has tightened considerably through zero-tolerance policing, growing surveillance, privatization, and gentrification. It argues t…
The Power of Things: Material Culture as Political Resource
The business of urban coolness: Emerging markets for street art
The Cultural Production of Locality: Reclaiming the 'European City' in Post-Wall Berlin
Berlin's post-1989 rebuilding is used to explore the role of cultural professionals, exemplified by architects and urban planners, in the production of locality. Drawing on an analysis of architectural debates, competitions and building projects, the article traces how the model of the 'European city' became the dominant paradigm of urban reconstruction in the 1990s and what precisely was understood by the term 'European city'. In so doing, the a…
The Toolkit of Nationalist Populism in Contemporary Hungary: Symbols, Objects, and Modalities of Circulation
This article belongs to the special cluster, “National, European, Transnational: Far-right activism in the 20th and 21st centuries”, guest edited by Agnieszka Pasieka. Research on populism attributes great significance to mapping the distinctive discursive logic of populist reasoning (e.g., the trope of pitting corrupt elites against the people). This article aims to move beyond the primary focus on discursive structures to stress the role of sym…
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism
The article explores how cross-border heritage tourism is promoted in public schools to reimagine Hungary as an ethnically homogeneous nation by incorporating ethnic kin communities that live in neighboring countries. Cross-border heritage tourism has long served to establish strong ties to ethnic diaspora communities that live beyond the territorial borders of the nation-state. National borders in Central and Eastern Europe were repeatedly redra…
Noise, Form, Art
The concept of form is of the most exciting notions that human consciousness has created, developed and manipulated. It is, in the words of Colin Cherry, one of those rare bridges between science and art [1]. The concept of form, in the broadest sense of the word, is reduced by computer scientists to a lack of randomness within an organised set of elements. By this measure, the fundamental property of form is a negative one: nonrandomness. Comput…
Frequency of red/green colour blindness in twenty-seven Hungarian populations
Noise, Form, Art
The concept of form is of the most exciting notions that human consciousness has created, developed and manipulated. It is, in the words of Colin Cherry, one of those rare bridges between science and art [1]. The concept of form, in the broadest sense of the word, is reduced by computer scientists to a lack of randomness within an organised set of elements. By this measure, the fundamental property of form is a negative one: nonrandomness. Comput…
How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape their Collective Identity: Evidence from marketing specialists
This article develops a ‘social identity’ perspective to the study of consumption. It builds on Richard Jenkins’ distinction between internal and external definitions of collective identity and explores the interplay of these definitions in the realm of consumption. Evidence is collected from interviews with marketing professionals who specialize in the African-American market segment to show that this theoretical approach complements and improve…
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology. This article surveys some of these developments while describing the value added provided by the concept, particularly concerning the study of relational processes. It discusses literatures on (a) social and collective identity; (b) class, ethnic/racial, and gender/sex ine…
Cultural Politics and Modernist Architecture: The Tulip Debate in Postwar Hungary
The article focuses on the interpretive struggles and contests surrounding the adoption and legitimation of fully or partly "imported" ideas. It examines the reception of modernist architecture in post-1945 Hungary to improve our understanding of how international cultural paradigms are incorporated into a particular national context. It maps the processes through which modernist architecture came to be institutionalized in Hungary as a cultural …
Reconfiguring Private and Public: State, Capital and New Housing Developments in Berlin and Budapest
This article explores how new planned housing developments have contributed to the restructuring of public and private space in contemporary Berlin and Budapest, two cities whose globalisation was complicated by major political and economic transformation during the past two decades. It draws on and extends research on gated communities to develop a relational approach that more adequately captures international variations of this housing form an…
The Cultural Production of Locality: Reclaiming the 'European City' in Post-Wall Berlin
Berlin's post-1989 rebuilding is used to explore the role of cultural professionals, exemplified by architects and urban planners, in the production of locality. Drawing on an analysis of architectural debates, competitions and building projects, the article traces how the model of the 'European city' became the dominant paradigm of urban reconstruction in the 1990s and what precisely was understood by the term 'European city'. In so doing, the a…
Collective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History
Much organizational identity research has grappled with the question of identity emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on an analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost 50 years, we theorize a link between collective memory and organizational identity endurance. More specifically, we show how forgetting in a firm's ongoing rhetorical history—here…
Reframing Public Space Through Digital Mobilization: Flash Mobs and Contemporary Urban Youth Culture
Flash mobs have spread, like wildfire, across the globe in recent years fuelling new uses of urban public space. The media has wondered if these events are simply pointless pranks, creative public performances, or mass social experiments in community building. Existing research emphasizes only the vital role of digital communications technology in the mobilization process. In contrast, this analysis shows through a broad range of examples from Ne…
Civil society, radicalism and the rediscovery of mythic nationalism
The article argues that contrary to the widely held view that traces the recent rise of illiberalism in H ungary and E astern E urope to a weak civil society, the past decade has witnessed a surge of civil society activism. But rather than working exclusively towards strengthening and complementing liberal political institutions, civil society has also provided fertile soil to the spread of right‐wing populism, radicalism and xenophobia. The anal…
The Power of Things: Material Culture as Political Resource
New York's New Edge: Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side
Street Art and the Changing Urban Public Sphere
The essay examines street art as a lens on the workings of the contemporary public sphere to capture changing uses of urban public spaces and shifting conceptions of social order in the city. It explores the explosion in the popularity of street art at a time when urban public space is shrinking and control over its use has tightened considerably through zero-tolerance policing, growing surveillance, privatization, and gentrification. It argues t…
The business of urban coolness: Emerging markets for street art
The Toolkit of Nationalist Populism in Contemporary Hungary: Symbols, Objects, and Modalities of Circulation
This article belongs to the special cluster, “National, European, Transnational: Far-right activism in the 20th and 21st centuries”, guest edited by Agnieszka Pasieka. Research on populism attributes great significance to mapping the distinctive discursive logic of populist reasoning (e.g., the trope of pitting corrupt elites against the people). This article aims to move beyond the primary focus on discursive structures to stress the role of sym…
Russia’s Night Wolves, Migrating Memory and Europe’s Eastern Frontier
The article examines the controversy triggered by the “Victory Tour” of Russia’s high-profile biker organization, the Night Wolves, to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. The tour provoked important questions about the relationship between European borders and the politics of World War II commemoration. The article argues that the international public discourse around the Night Wolves illuminates how state bord…
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism
The article explores how cross-border heritage tourism is promoted in public schools to reimagine Hungary as an ethnically homogeneous nation by incorporating ethnic kin communities that live in neighboring countries. Cross-border heritage tourism has long served to establish strong ties to ethnic diaspora communities that live beyond the territorial borders of the nation-state. National borders in Central and Eastern Europe were repeatedly redra…
Fashioning the nation in the age of populism
Dress and fashion are both an important site and an idiom through which political conflicts, over cultural membership, such as national and ethnic belonging, are played out. In this article, I use Hungary as a case study to map the various ways in which fashion is used today in populist regimes to delineate the symbolic boundaries of the nation by generating powerful material and visual definitions of belonging, identity, sovereignty, community, …
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