CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Zontea, Alexandra |
|---|---|
| Title | Creating New Subjectivities: The Hungarian Student Network, a Counterculture in the Making |
| Summary | The present thesis describes and analyses the case of the Student Network (Hallgatói Hálózat - HaHa) as a recent social movement in the Hungarian contentious politics, by looking at the productive dimension of the movement, mainly how participants re-imagine the social through creating a new subjectivity (“the occupier”), new public spaces and going beyond the accepted repertoire of contention. I argue that the recent cycle of protest, namely the student demonstrations and the occupation of ELTE BTK are not directly a result of the social-political context, particularly the grievances related to the massive cuts in the higher education system, but a product of the internal relationships within the student movement. Further, I am addressing the meaning and the orientation of collective action, which reside in the shared values and practices of the student community. This means that I am accounting for the subcultural ground of the community that formed HaHa, underlining the change in the membership of the Student Network as channeling an emergent counterculture. |
| Supervisor | Jean-Louis Fabiani;Andreas Dafinger |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/zontea_alexandra.pdf |
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