Agnes Gagyi
Om Agnes Gagyi
Background Agnes Gagyi is a Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at University of Gothenburg since 2017. Before that she taught sociology and communication in Hungary, and conducted research projects at George Mason University, USA, and New Europe College, Romania. In 2020 and 2021, she conducted guest research projects at the Imre Kertész Kolleg and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.
Specialist Fields Dr. Gagyi is a social movement researcher, focusing on East European movements and politics from the perspective of the region’s long-term world market and geopolitical integration. Her previous research projects involved the international embeddedness of the alterglobalization movement in Hungary and Romania, the politics of post-2008 anti-austerity movements in Eastern Europe, comparative perspectives on waves of economic crisis and political mobilization in Hungary and Romania, and reorganizations of intellectual and expert knowledge structures during changes in modes of world market integration.
Current research
”Housing, Social Mobilisations and Urban Governance in Central and Eastern Europe”. The Swedish Research Council Formas, 2017-2022
“Urban Gardens as Meeting Places in Göteborg, Budapest and Bucharest: Building Collaborative Capacity for Sustainability in Different Socio-economic Contexts”. The Swedish Research Council Formas, 2020- 2023.
Research Areas
- Political sociology
- Political economy
- Social movements
- Central and Eastern Europe
Recent publications
Florea, I., A., Gagyi and K., Jacobsson (2021). Antagonisms and solidarities in housing movements in Bucharest and Budapest. In Ege, M., Moser, J. (Eds.) Urban Ethics. Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities. Routledge, 180-195.
Gagyi, A. (2021). The Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary and Romania. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gagyi, A. and O. Slačálek (Eds.) (2021). The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’. New Left Perspectives from the Region. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Co-Producing Innovation in Face of the Crisis: Urban Agriculture in
Budapest
Agnes Gagyi
2022 RSA Central and Eastern Europe Conference, Leipzig - 2022 -
Housing Finance in the Aftermath of the Foreign-Currency Mortgage Crisis in Eastern
Europe
Agnes Gagyi, Marek Mikuš
Critical Housing Analysis - 2022 -
Bridge position and regime fixes: semi-peripheral contexts to "illiberalism" in
Hungary
Agnes Gagyi
New Times? Confronting the Escalating Crises of Global Capitalism. conference organized by Karl Polanyi Research Center for Global Social Studies and the Committee on Global Transformations (IUAES), Budapest. - 2022 -
New and old modernities - global investments and geopolitical tensions in Eastern
Europe
Agnes Gagyi
Eastern Europe Postcolonial - New Approaches to an Ongoing Debate. Imre Kertézs Kolleg, Jena - 2022 -
The new left in Eastern Europe and the global
crisis
Agnes Gagyi
Keynote, Subversive Festival, Zagreb - 2022 -
Global crisis and the realignment of Eastern European capitalist class alliances: The case of Hungarian
illiberalism
Agnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs
The Radical Right. Politics of hate at the margins of global capital - 2022 -
Housing Finance in the Aftermath of the Foreign-Currency Mortgage Crisis in Eastern Europe:
Editorial
Agnes Gagyi, Marek Mikuš
Critical Housing Analysis - 2022 -
Forex Mortgages and Housing Access in the Reconfiguration of Hungarian Politics after
2008
Agnes Gagyi
Critical Housing Analysis - 2022 -
Contemporary Housing
Struggles
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Reconfiguring Regimes of Capitalist Integration: Hungary Since the
1970s
Agnes Gagyi, T. Gerőcs
The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’. Agnes Gagyi, Ondřej Slačálek (Red.) - 2022 -
Introduction
Agnes Gagyi
The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’. Agnes Gagyi, Ondřej Slačálek (red.) - 2022 -
The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’: New Left Perspectives from the
Region
Agnes Gagyi, Ondrej Slacalek
2021 -
Utopias and Dystopias of Ecological Self-Sufficiency: Homesteading in Popular Crisis
Politics
Agnes Gagyi
Council for European Studies 2021 Convention - 2021 -
Dynamics of housing and labor: Semi-informal dwelling in peri-urban
Budapest
Agnes Gagyi, András Vigvári
Interactions between formality and informality in urban contexts: Insights from the margins conference of CESCAME (Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment), Czech Academy of Sciences. - 2021 -
Housing struggles in Eastern Europe as a structural field of
contention
Agnes Gagyi
CEFRES - 2021 -
Semi-peripheral financialization and informal household solutions: Embedded scales of uneven development in Hungarian urban
fringes
Agnes Gagyi, András Vigvári, Csaba Jelinek, Zsuzsanna Pósfai
Mikuš, Marek, and Petra Rodik, eds. Households and Financialization in Europe: Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-peripheries. - 2021 -
Nationalist movements against financial nationalism? Forex debtors' activism and Hungary's new financial
regime
Agnes Gagyi
https://www.eth.mpg.de/5942010/news-2021-09-21-01 - 2021 -
The political economy of middle class politics and the global crisis in Eastern Europe. The case of Hungary and
Romania
Agnes Gagyi
2021 -
A Structural Field of Contention Approach to Social
Struggles.
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Paper presented at the ESA online conference, September 4-7 2021. - 2021 -
Antagonisms and solidarities in housing movements in Bucharest and
Budapest
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Urban Ethics. Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities. Ege, M., Moser, J. (red.) - 2021 -
Szolidáris gazdaság és
kapitalizmus
Agnes Gagyi
Fordulat - 2020 -
Book review: Frontiers of civil society: government and hegemony in Serbia
by Marek Mikuš, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2018, 358
pp.
Agnes Gagyi
Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe - 2020 -
Review: Daniel Ozarow, 2019, The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-class Revolt. Comparative insights from Argentina. New York: Routledge
(271pp.)
Agnes Gagyi
Interface - 2020 -
Civic Organization beyond the 'Open Society' Battle: Cases from
Hungary
Agnes Gagyi, M. Szarvas, A. Vigvari
Politologicky Casopis-Czech Journal of Political Science - 2020 -
Félelem helyett kölcsönös segítség: a katasztrófaszociológia tanulságai a klímaválságra való
felkészülésre
Agnes Gagyi
Fordulat - 2019 -
The reinvention of 'civil society': transnational conceptions of development in East-Central
Europe
Agnes Gagyi, Mariya Ivancheva
McCrea, Niamh, and Fergal Finnegan, eds. Funding, power and community development. Policy Press, 2019. - 2019 -
Lakhatási helyzet a válság után. Financializációs folyamatok, kettészakadó lakáspolitikák és a háztartások túlélési stratégiái (Housing after the crisis. Financialization, the two faces of housing policiy and households' survival strategies in
Hungary)
Agnes Gagyi, Csaba Jelinek, Zsuzsanna Pósfai, Andras Vigvari
Fordulat - 2019 -
2008-2018: Válság és hegemónia Magyarországon (2008-2018: Crisis and hegemony in
Hungary)
Agnes Gagyi, Eber Mark
Fordulat - 2019 -
Housing struggles in Bucharest and Budapest: mapping urban civil society in terms of a field of
contention
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Presentation at The XVI Polish Sociological Congress in Wroclaw - 2019 -
A válság politikái. Új kelet-közép-európai mozgalmak globális perspektívában (Politics of the crisis. New East-Central-European Movements in Global
Perspective)
Agnes Gagyi
2019 -
Informal Practices in Housing Financialisation: The Transformation of an Allotment Garden in
Hungary
Agnes Gagyi, Andras Vigvari
Critical Housing Analysis - 2018 -
Reform Economics in Late-Socialist Hungary: A Case of Globally Embedded Knowledge
Production
Agnes Gagyi
Adela Hîncu and Victor Karady, eds., „Social Sciences in the other Europe since 1945” - 2018 -
Dependent development under geopolitical reconfiguration: the case of
Hungary
Agnes Gagyi, Tamas Gerocs
5th EISA European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Groeningen - 2018 -
Semi-peripheral financialization and informal household solutions: embedded scales of uneven development in a Hungarian agglomeration
zone
Agnes Gagyi, Csaba Jelinek, Zsuzsanna Posfai, Andras Vigvari
Households and Peripheral Financialization in Europe workshop, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology - 2018 -
Financialization in historical cycles of uneven development in
Hungary
Agnes Gagyi
The Financialization of Housing on the Semi-Periphery conference, CEU, 20-22 July, Budapest - 2018 -
Financialization and right-wing nationalist politics in Hungary - a case through
housing
Agnes Gagyi, Csaba Jelinek, Zsuzsanna Posfai
Fifth Global Conference on Economic Geography, 24-28 July, Cologne, Germany - 2018 -
Taking back what is "ours": ideological ambiguities and capacity-building in housing mortgage debtors' struggles under Hungary's newly nationalizing financial
regime
Agnes Gagyi, Natasa Szabo
European Association of Social Anthropologists 2018 Conference, 14-17 August, Stockholm - 2018 -
Reindustrialisation, financialisation and the role of state in Hungarian uneven
development
Marton Czirfusz, Agnes Gagyi, Tamas Gerocs, Csaba Jelinek, Tibor Meszmann, Zsuzsanna Posfai
4th The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism Conference, 29-30 November, Budapest - 2018 -
Antagonism and Solidarity in Housing Movements in Bucharest and Budapest: A Field of Contention
Approach
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the ‚Good’ and Proper Life in Cities, 17-19 January, Munich, Germany - 2018 -
Labor, Financialization of Housing and the Re-Scaling State in Hungarian Second-Tier
Cities
Marton Czirfusz, Agnes Gagyi, Tamas Gerocs, Csaba Jelinek, Tibor Meszmann, Zsuzsanna Posfai
Fifth Global Conference on Economic Geography, 24-28 July 2018, Cologne, Germany - 2018 -
Társadalmi reprodukció. Az élet újratermelése a kapitalizmusban (Social Reproduction. The Reproduction of Life under
Capitalism)
Gergely Csanyi, Agnes Gagyi, Agnes Kerekgyarto
Fordulat - 2018 -
Ruling Ideas: How Global Neoliberalism Goes
Local
Agnes Gagyi
Contemporary Sociology - 2018 -
A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and
Budapest
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - 2018 -
Informal Housing in Hungary: History and Present
Practices
Agnes Gagyi, Andras Vigvari
Informal Housing and Property Rights in the Countries of the Former Soviet Bloc workshop, University of Zurich - 2018 -
The MOBA Housing Network: building finance opportunities for cooperative housing in
Central and South-Eastern Europe, from the bottom
up
Agnes Gagyi
2nd Change Finance Conference, Brussels - 2018 -
Informális gazdaság, népi önszerveződés és „posztneoliberális” baloldali rezsimek Latin-Amerikában (Informal economy, popular self-organization and "post-neoliberal" left regimes in Latin America. Verónica Gago: Neoliberalism from
Below)
Agnes Gagyi
Fordulat - 2018 -
Martha Lampland: The value of labor: the science of commodification in Hungary,
1920–1956
Agnes Gagyi, T Gerocs
Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe - 2017 -
Szolidaritás, reprezentáció és képviselet a szegénységkutatásban és az új középosztálybeli aktivizmusban (Solidarity and representation in poverty research and in new middle class
activism)
Agnes Gagyi, G Pulay
Replika - 2017 -
Válság, művészet és politikai aktivizmus – A kortárs kulturális mező újrapolitizálódásának társadalmi környezete (Crisis, art and political activism - On the social context of the contemporary repoliticization of the cultural
sphere)
Agnes Gagyi, M Szarvas
Eszmélet (Consciousness) - 2017 -
East-Central European feminist activism in the context of uneven development in the EU, and ways to move
forward
Agnes Gagyi, G Csanyi, E Barna, T Gerocs
The Future of the European Union - Feminist Perspectives from East-Central Europe - 2017 -
Housing on the frontier of uneven development and social struggles on Europe's eastern
periphery
Agnes Gagyi, Zs Pósfai
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association. Athens: 29 august - 01 september - 2017 -
State, forex mortgages and real estate: some theoretical aspects of the Hungarian
case
Agnes Gagyi, Zs Pósfai, Cs Jelinek
The Real Estate/Financial Complex International Conference. Leuven, Belgium : 13-15 january - 2017 -
Rákóczi Collective - Alternatives to individual
ownership
Agnes Gagyi, Cs Jelinek, Zs Pósfai, M Szarvas
Autoportret / The Cooperative City - 2017 -
Class and Intellectual Politics: Some Notes on the Contexts of a New Intellectual Left in Hungary and
Romania
Agnes Gagyi
Spectrum of Communism - Symposium at Blinken OSA. Budapest: 16-17 november - 2017 -
Anti-Migration as State Politics in the Lack of Immigration: How the International Political
Economy of Hungary's Anti-Migration Stance Produces a Trap for Human Rights
Arguments
Agnes Gagyi
6th Bi-annual meeing, Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology (PACSA). Amsterdam:28-30 august - 2017 -
Hungary’s 'Lex CEU' and the State of the Open Society: Looking Beyond the Story of Democratic
Revolutions
Agnes Gagyi
Cultures of History Forum - 2017 -
Bringing back Uneven Development to the Urbanization of Politics: Understanding Right Wing Reactions to the Forex Mortgage Crisis in
Hungary
Agnes Gagyi, Cs Jelinek
RC21 Conference, Leeds - 2017 -
The rise and fall of civil society in East-Central
Europe
Agnes Gagyi, M Ivancheva
Moskalewicz M. & Przybylski W. (eds) Understanding Central Europe - 2017