CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Kulebyakina, Olga |
|---|---|
| Title | PUBLICLY INTIMATE: CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE POST-SOCIALIST PUBLIC SPHERE IN BUDAPEST |
| Summary | This thesis reviews the relationship between two grand dichotomies of “public” and “private”, looking at the contemporary changes of public sphere induced by the expansion of public displays of intimacies. The research is illustrated by the case study of Budapest, as the city particularized by its historical, political, and social contexts during the past fifty years. The evidence is provided by the comparison of the social representations of the public and private sphere of the three generations and observations of everyday life in public places. Moreover, despite the existing theoretical tradition emphasizing the contemporary decline of public sphere in western societies, I argue that in case of Budapest it went through the process of transformation from the “private” integrated in public life to the state of the public sphere being fragmented by “private”. Therefore, as the outcome of the study, I present my vision of the changes in Budapest with the model of fragmented public sphere. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu, Daniel; Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/kulebyakina_olga.pdf |
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