Andrea Peto
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3680265 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrea Peto |
| PRENOMES | Andrea |
| SOBRENOME | Peto |
| ASSINATURA | PETŐ Á |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7525-2582 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 180 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Skirmishing Femininity
This article explores the role of female political actors who mobilize gendered symbolic capital to advance illiberal populist agendas in contemporary Europe. Building on the concept of the populist skirmisher, we analyze women who act as combative and hypervisible disruptors of discursive norms. They engage in performative incivility—weaponizing confrontation, vulgarity, and taboo-breaking to command attention and push ideological boundaries. Fo…
The politics of appropriation
This paper examines the politics of appropriation through which the meaning of academic freedom is strategically redeployed within contemporary struggles over knowledge and governance. Across both illiberal regimes and consolidated liberal democracies, recent years have witnessed escalating disputes over freedom of speech and academic freedom – concepts increasingly collapsed in political and public discourse. This conflation is not incidental bu…
From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia
In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if) the museums incorporate the gender perspective in their narratives. It argues that illiberal museological …
Getting the Best of “Unwanted Recognition”
This article examines systematic attacks on Gender Studies as part of broader anti-gender campaigns within illiberal states, using the personal experience at Central European University as a case study. When Gender Studies was deleted from Hungary’s accredited study list in 2017 without consultation, CEU was forced to relocate from Budapest to Vienna in 2020, demonstrating how attacks on academic freedom occur within EU member states rather than …
Collaboration »
La culture mémorielle de l’Europe de l’Est a subi une transformation radicale après l’effondrement du communisme, du fait de l’« américanisation » de la Shoah, c’est-à-dire, pour reprendre les termes de Winfried Fluck, spécialiste de la culture allemande, un processus de démocratisation consistant à éradiquer toute complexité afin de rendre accessibles à un vaste public des événements complexes. De nouveaux musées ont été créés pour réécrire l’hi…
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern world. Through eighteen chapters, this volume examines connections between sexuality and the defining forces of modern global history including capitalism, colonialism, migration, consumerism, and war; sexuality in modern literature and print media; sexuality in dictatorships and democracies; and cultural changes…
Rewarding mobility? Towards a realistic European policy agenda for academics at risk
This article maps from a critical and comparative perspective how scholars at risk are currently being integrated into the European research infrastructure, as well as in various EU and non-EU Member States. The focus is on three countries ranging from older to newer EU members to one non-EU member state—Hungary, Romania and the United Kingdom—as well as on EU-level organisations. We draw on twelve in-depth interviews conducted with key stakehold…
Legacies and recipe of constructing successful righteous motherhood policies
Exegi monumentum
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a period when artistic endeavours, aimed at expressing a national identity, were thriving in Hungary. The Jewish minority of Budapest also found it important to be present in public spaces. A couple of years after the emancipation of Hungarian Jews, the first statues of Jewish personalities appeared on the streets of Budapest. Who were these statues dedicated to? Who were the artists commissioned, and w…
Nationalism, Pronatalism, and the Guild of Gynecology
By tracing the history of abortion politics in Hungary since World War I, this article covers a century of conflict with particular attention to gynecologists’ self-serving professional jockeying and lobbying under very different political regimes. It suggests that nationalism has been a pivotal element of the abortion debates that both government actors and gynecologists have shaped over the last hundred years and argues that abortion rights wer…
What makes you hopeful for gender studies in Hungary, in the world
What makes you hopeful for gender studies in Hungary, in the world? Andrea Pető (bio) Editors of Pandemonium spoke with Andrea Pető on June 12, 2023. What is unique in the Hungarian situation is that, in 2017, when the attack started on gender studies, it was not clear how this would end. But there's a fantastic Russian saying: when you think you are at the bottom, somebody's already knocking from below. Things can always get worse. For over ten …
Women Migrants From East to West
Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved from Bulgaria and Hungary to Italy and the Netherlands. It assumes migrants to be active subjects, creating possibilities and taking decisions in their own lives, as well …
Gendering De‐Democratization
Many observers have written with concern about a growing “opposition to gender equality,” “anti‐gender campaigns,” and even a “war on gender.” Often, these trends take place in countries that are witnessing a decline in democratic quality, a process captured by such labels as “democratic erosion,” “democratic backsliding,” or “autocratization.” This thematic issue brings together literature on gender equality and de‐democratization with an emphas…
Disputing “Gender” in Academia
This article explores the attacks to which gender studies programs in Central and Eastern Europe have been subject and the responses such attacks have elicited in the context of analogous phenomena in other parts of the world. The undermining of gender studies in recent years has been aggravated by the effects of the Covid‐19 pandemic that has exacerbated financial crises of educational institutions while also—in some contexts—providing cover for…
Women’s courageous resistance to gender apartheid in Afghanistan
International audience
Roundtable on the impact of Covid and Open Access on Gender Studies Journal
International audience
Feminist+ solidarity as transformative politics
International audience
Open Forum
International audience
The Illiberal Memory Politics in Hungary
International audience
Fear Eats the Soul
Fear Eats the Soul is one of the several remarkable films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from 1974. The unlikely love story between a 60 year old German widow, who works as a cleaner, and Moroccan guest worker in his late 30s, shows how fear is manifested in words, in actions and also in the stomach ulcer of the guest worker. Fear is a governing force of all lives: fear saves us from drowning in a steep river and fear also prevents us telling an hon…
Unfettered Freedom’ Revisited
In his 1992 article, ‘Today, Freedom is Unfettered in Hungary,’ Columbia University history professor István Deák argued that after 1989 Hungarian historical research enjoyed ‘unfettered freedom. Deák gleefully listed the growing English literature on Hungarian history and hailed the ‘step-by step dismantling of the Marxist-Leninist edifice in historiography’ that he associated with the Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (H…
Current Comment
The emergence of illiberal science policy also raises serious questions about the European scientific authorization process as the rapid spread of illiberal science policies, such as closing accredited study programs and research institutions, privatizing higher education, appointing university leaders based on their loyalty to the government, ignoring quality assurance, etc. demand not only a reaction but also critical analysis. The article appl…
Roundtable discussion
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Gender as symbolic glue - The position and role of conservative and far right parties in the anti-gender mobilizations in Europe
A conversation with Monica Cornejo, Andrea Pető and Paola Rivetti on the book Religion, Gender, and Populism in the Mediterranean
The gendered modus operandi of the illiberal transformation in Hungary and Poland
Revisionist histories, ‘future memories
Using two case studies under the Christian-conservative Orbán government, this essay explores how 'future memories' are being constructed and sustained by revisionist history writing about the history of communism, especially in instrumentalist memories using pedagogical instruments: the secondary literature curriculum and the Museum of Trianon. It argues that canonization revised by counter canonization is necessarily opening space for revisioni…
How are Anti-Gender Movements Changing Gender Studies as a Profession
International audience
Legacies and recipe of constructing successful righteous motherhood policies
The Illiberal Memory Politics in Hungary
International audience
Gender, memory and connective genocide scholarship
Interview with Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University): "Marianne Hirsch’s groundbreaking work on the transmission of memories of violence across generations has deeply inspired many scholars working at the intersections of feminist theory, memory studies and genocide/Holocaust/war studies, including our- selves. Postmemory, a concept that she first introduced in the 1990s and continues to explore in novel ways, has added a whole new dime…
Gendering De‐Democratization
Many observers have written with concern about a growing “opposition to gender equality,” “anti‐gender campaigns,” and even a “war on gender.” Often, these trends take place in countries that are witnessing a decline in democratic quality, a process captured by such labels as “democratic erosion,” “democratic backsliding,” or “autocratization.” This thematic issue brings together literature on gender equality and de‐democratization with an emphas…
Disputing “Gender” in Academia
This article explores the attacks to which gender studies programs in Central and Eastern Europe have been subject and the responses such attacks have elicited in the context of analogous phenomena in other parts of the world. The undermining of gender studies in recent years has been aggravated by the effects of the Covid‐19 pandemic that has exacerbated financial crises of educational institutions while also—in some contexts—providing cover for…
Feminist+ solidarity as transformative politics
International audience
Indelible stains’? Introduction to special issue on Gender and Memory
Slavenka Drakuli, the celebrated Croatian
On Advocates of Anti-modernist Emancipation
Interview with Andrea Petö by Jitka Gelnarová
An empress in a new-old dress
Rewarding mobility? Towards a realistic European policy agenda for academics at risk
This article maps from a critical and comparative perspective how scholars at risk are currently being integrated into the European research infrastructure, as well as in various EU and non-EU Member States. The focus is on three countries ranging from older to newer EU members to one non-EU member state—Hungary, Romania and the United Kingdom—as well as on EU-level organisations. We draw on twelve in-depth interviews conducted with key stakehold…
What makes you hopeful for gender studies in Hungary, in the world
What makes you hopeful for gender studies in Hungary, in the world? Andrea Pető (bio) Editors of Pandemonium spoke with Andrea Pető on June 12, 2023. What is unique in the Hungarian situation is that, in 2017, when the attack started on gender studies, it was not clear how this would end. But there's a fantastic Russian saying: when you think you are at the bottom, somebody's already knocking from below. Things can always get worse. For over ten …
Women’s courageous resistance to gender apartheid in Afghanistan
International audience
Open Forum
International audience
Unfettered Freedom’ Revisited
In his 1992 article, ‘Today, Freedom is Unfettered in Hungary,’ Columbia University history professor István Deák argued that after 1989 Hungarian historical research enjoyed ‘unfettered freedom. Deák gleefully listed the growing English literature on Hungarian history and hailed the ‘step-by step dismantling of the Marxist-Leninist edifice in historiography’ that he associated with the Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (H…
Current Comment
The emergence of illiberal science policy also raises serious questions about the European scientific authorization process as the rapid spread of illiberal science policies, such as closing accredited study programs and research institutions, privatizing higher education, appointing university leaders based on their loyalty to the government, ignoring quality assurance, etc. demand not only a reaction but also critical analysis. The article appl…
Europe and the century of genocides
Document Type:Editorial Material
Hungary 70”
Analysis of memory studies is usually focusing on processes of remembrance, looking at the actors, sites, processes, institutions of remembering. This article however looks at non-remembering as a conscious strategy of not participating in commemorations of the 70th Anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary. It claims that lack of common language, the imprisonment of a “true” versus “false” dichotomy is contributing to the further pillarisation of …
Collective life story as a lonely but necessary experiment
Feminist and Economic Inquiry in Central and Eastern Europe
This Explorations investigates the current status of the research done on women's economic position in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), focusing on the current treatment of feminism in these countries. Agnieszka Majcher discusses feminist economic inquiry and the position of women in higher education in Poland. Krisztina Majoros focuses on the progress and problems of women in higher education and research institutions in Hungary and compares th…
An empress in a new-old dress
A Missing Piece? How Hungarian Women in the Communist Nomenklatura are not Remembering
A Missing Piece? How Hungarian Women in the Communist Nomenklatura are not Remembering
Memory and the Narrative of Rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945
In an exhibition in Vienna on Austrian women's lives in 1945 there hung a remarkable picture taken in the Prater in January 1946. It was a photo of a sixteen-year-old girl who was raped and killed by five Russian soldiers, as stated in the police record. The picture is lyrical; even in death her face remains peaceful. Her dress is loose but explicitly suggests sexual violence. The blood on her face is not disturbing. Her hands are gracefully plac…
Life after Death
This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented …
Feminist and Economic Inquiry in Central and Eastern Europe
This Explorations investigates the current status of the research done on women's economic position in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), focusing on the current treatment of feminism in these countries. Agnieszka Majcher discusses feminist economic inquiry and the position of women in higher education in Poland. Krisztina Majoros focuses on the progress and problems of women in higher education and research institutions in Hungary and compares th…
"Women and "the alternative public sphere
In the years following the end of the cold war in 1989, Western feminist scholars and activists expressed disappointment in the failure of the newly democratic Eastern and Central European countries to sustain mainstream women's rights movements and achieve a marked increase in women's participation within the new political parties and political life in general. The authors, historians of Hungarian women's movements with a broad East-West perspec…
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union
In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either western or eastern Europe, this book investigates the similarities and differences in diverse parts of Europe. Although initially limited, gender equalit…
Who Is Afraid of the “Ugly Women”?
Collective life story as a lonely but necessary experiment
Hungary 70”
Analysis of memory studies is usually focusing on processes of remembrance, looking at the actors, sites, processes, institutions of remembering. This article however looks at non-remembering as a conscious strategy of not participating in commemorations of the 70th Anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary. It claims that lack of common language, the imprisonment of a “true” versus “false” dichotomy is contributing to the further pillarisation of …
Female imperialism and national identity. Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
International audience
Broken continuities and silencing the feminist legacy of the First World War
Feminist questions at the centennial of the First World War
Special Open Forum on the anniversary of the First World War with contributions by Cynthia Enloe, Joane Nagel, Andrea Peto and Ayse Gul Altinay
Political Justice in Budapest after World War II
In Hungary, which fell under Soviet influence at the end of WWII, those who had participated in the wartime atrocities were tried by so called people's courts. This book analyses this process in an objective, quantitative way, contributing to the present timely discussion on the Hungarian war guilt. The authors apply a special focus on the gender aspect of the trials.
Political Justice in Budapest after World War II
Political Justice in Budapest after World War II is a groundbreaking work for two reasons: first, the authors shift the focus of historical research from the wartime elite to the general Hungarian population and, second, they adopt an applied quantitative methodology.Furthermore, instead of limiting themselves to the political leaders of the Horthy and Szlasi regimes and other prominent war criminals, they expand the scope of their inquiry to the…
Gender, memory and connective genocide scholarship
Interview with Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University): "Marianne Hirsch’s groundbreaking work on the transmission of memories of violence across generations has deeply inspired many scholars working at the intersections of feminist theory, memory studies and genocide/Holocaust/war studies, including our- selves. Postmemory, a concept that she first introduced in the 1990s and continues to explore in novel ways, has added a whole new dime…
Europe and the century of genocides
Document Type:Editorial Material
Le « socialisme réel » à l'épreuve du genre
Depuis la chute du mur de Berlin, on a un peu oublié comment vivaient les femmes et les hommes dans les pays dirigés par des partis communistes et communément appelés du « socialisme réel ». Ce numéro, qui offre des contributions sur l’URSS, la Mongolie, divers États d’Europe de l’Est après 1945, la Chine et Cuba, tente de répondre à deux questions : comment et jusqu’où le socialisme, porteur d’une utopie égalitaire, a-t-il modifié les rapports d…
Hongrie 1956, Júlia Rajk ou le pouvoir du deuil
À travers le cas de Júlia Rajk (1914-1981), veuve du puissant ministre de l'Intérieur Laslo Rajk exécuté en 1949 à l'issue du premier grand procès en Hongrie, l'article explore la complexité de la construction des subjectivités politiques des femmes sous le communisme. Il soutient l'idée que ce n'est pas la participation à l'organisation officielle des femmes mais l'opposition à cette dernière qui conduit à des formes genrées de résistance
How are Anti-Gender Movements Changing Gender Studies as a Profession
International audience
On Advocates of Anti-modernist Emancipation
Interview with Andrea Petö by Jitka Gelnarová
Revisionist histories, ‘future memories
Using two case studies under the Christian-conservative Orbán government, this essay explores how 'future memories' are being constructed and sustained by revisionist history writing about the history of communism, especially in instrumentalist memories using pedagogical instruments: the secondary literature curriculum and the Museum of Trianon. It argues that canonization revised by counter canonization is necessarily opening space for revisioni…
Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe
The gendered modus operandi of the illiberal transformation in Hungary and Poland
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