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Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet”

Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet”

The Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet” was established in 2010 by PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers in order to analyze contemporary Hungarian society from a critical leftist perspective. Its members felt that questions of politics and the economy were treated almost separately in Hungarian discourses, while there was an increasing need to understand them as interconnected. Members of Helyzet formulated a critical stance towards social, political and economic analysis in contemporary Hungary, stating that it was limited by the master narrative of transition to an idealized Western European modernity, a narrative that transformed local complexities into exoticisms, and viewed local-global relationships through a primitive linear model of development. The working group observes contemporary Hungary as part and parcel of contemporary European and global power relations. The aim of Helyzet is to connect existing knowledge on global and supranational relationships with local knowledge gathered from the broader sphere of sociology.

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  • Institution: Helyzet


  • Language: English, Hungarian

  • Media type: Website

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Digital and Video Archive

Digital and Video Archive (Slovenia/Yugoslavia)

Digital and Video Archive (Slovenia/Yugoslavia)

10/07/2023In Bodies Politics

DIVA Station is a physical and web archive of video and new-media art which has been developing since 2005, and is also a broader compendium of SCCA projects that seek to research, present, document and archive video/new-media art.
The collecting of materials for DIVA Station is based on a documentary, archival and research project on video art in Slovenia Videodokument: Video Art in Slovenia 1969-1998, which was developed at SCCA-Ljubljana between 1994 and 1999, and was followed by numerous curatorial selections of the gathered material, introduced under the common title of Videospotting. High-resolution video archive works and selected literature on video and (new)media art are available to the public in SCCA library / Diva mediatheque. Mediateque provides free access to over 1,500 video works by local artists for a in-depth viewing and studying. We offer also consulting and know-how services and provide a thematic literature. Works may not be borrowed for home viewing.

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  • Institution: SCCA-Ljubljana


  • Language: English, Slovenian

  • Media type: Website

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Identities Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture

Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture

Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture

10/07/2023In Bodies Politics

Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed international journal that seeks to serve as a platform for the theoretical production of Southeastern Europe and enable its visibility and an opening for international debate with authors from both the “intellectual centers” and the “intellectual margins” of the world. It is particularly interested in promoting theoretical investigations which see issues of politics, gender and culture as inextricably interrelated. It is open to all theoretical strands, to all schools and non-schools of thought without prioritizing cannons and their major figures of authority. It does not seek doctrinal consistency, but it seeks consistency in rigor of investigation which can combine frameworks of interpretation derived from various and sometimes opposed schools of thought. Our passion is one for topics rather than philosophical masters. Identities is published by the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje, North Macedonia.

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  • Institution: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje


  • Language: English

  • Media type: Journal

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Cultural Opposition

Cultural Opposition – Understanding the CultuRal HeritAGE of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries

Cultural Opposition – Understanding the CultuRal HeritAGE of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries

10/07/2023In Bodies Politics

COURAGE (“Cultural Opposition – Understanding the CultuRal HeritAGE of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries”) is a three-year international research project funded by Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. We are an international academic community interested in cultural dissent under Socialism in Eastern Europe.
The project posits culture in Eastern Europe before 1989 as more than socialist realism and dull propaganda art: at certain times and places alternative cultural scenes flourished despite the strict controls of socialist regimes. They do research that tackles this rich and colourful legacy of cultural opposition in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe by exploring and comparing collections on cultural opposition; tell stories of non-conformist avant-garde art, anti-establishment religious movements, civic initiatives for unofficial education and publication, dissident movements, underground punk and rock bands, alternative ways of life, even novel spiritual practices, and many more.
The website also presents the first digital database of both online and offline private and public collections in Europe which testify to the survival of various forms of cultural opposition in the former socialist countries; as well as show how these collections work, what functions they serve in their respective societies, and how they represent their holdings and findings to the national and international public.

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  • Institution: COURAGE


  • Language: English, Bulgarian, German, Croatian, Ewe, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Serbian

  • Media type: Website

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Performance Art in Eastern Europe

Performance Art in Eastern Europe

Performance Art in Eastern Europe

10/07/2023In Bodies Politics

This website is a developing database of artists who have created or are currently creating performances (action art, live art, happenings and socially engaged art) in Eastern Europe. From 2013-2016 Amy Bryzgel traveled throughout Eastern Europe, conducting research for her monograph Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960 (Manchester University Press, 2017), and this website also serves as a documentation of her travels to the region, to meet and interview artists, curators, art historians and critics.

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  • Institution: Amy Bryzgel


  • Language: English

  • Media type: Website

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Records Uncovered

Records Uncovered

10/07/2023In Bodies Politics

Records Uncovered is an online exhibition by the Blinken OSA and the Háttér Archive and Library which presents the divergences and commonalities among gay and lesbian movements in Central and Southeastern Europe in the second half of the last century. Through legal documentation, media reports, private and institutional correspondence, art works and ephemera, this exhibition evinces the understanding of homosexuality and the treatment of sexual minorities, in countries that commonly shared two different political goals at two different periods: the establishment of a new communist society between the mid-1940s and the early 1990s and the transition towards a democratic society in the following years.

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  • Institution: Blinken OSA and the Háttér Archive and Library


  • Language: English

  • Media type: Online exhibition

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Clio Infra

Clio Infra

07/07/2023In Other

Clio Infra has set up a number of interconnected databases containing worldwide data on social, economic, and institutional indicators for the past five centuries, with special attention to the past 200 years. These indicators allow research into long-term development of worldwide economic growth and inequality.

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  • Institution: Clio Infra


  • Language: English

  • Media type: Website

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University of Texas Inequality Project

University of Texas Inequality Project

University of Texas Inequality Project

UTIP is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial change around the world.

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  • Institution: University of Texas


  • Language: English

  • Media type: Website

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Journal of World-Systems Research

Journal of World-Systems Research

Journal of World-Systems Research

The main editorial goal of the Journal of World-Systems Research is to develop and disseminate scholarly research on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems. The journal aims to publish works that proceed from several different theoretical stances and disciplines. These include, but are not limited to, civilizationists, evolutionary approaches, international political economy, comparative, historical and cultural analysis.

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  • Institution: Journal of World-Systems Research


  • Language: English

  • Media type: Website

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Politics of borders

Summer school for sexualities, cultures, and politics

06/06/2023In Politics of borders

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