CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Ewa Maczynska |
|---|---|
| Title | "To take the distinction between us and them away." Political subjectivities of horizontal solidarity activists in Denmark, Hungary, and Sweden |
| Summary | This dissertation is based on ethnographic research conducted with the activists who supported migrants and other marginalized groups through horizontal solidarity practices in Denmark, Hungary, and Sweden in the period 2015–2017. Employing narrative methodology, it explores the contours of political subjectivities of the activists––highly critical and socially conscious Western subjects who simultaneously pursue counter-hegemonic, equality and justice-oriented political projects and are positioned high in socio-economic and political structures of power (both locally and globally) that they criticize and oppose. The dissertation shows that activists’ narratives reveal the entanglements between counter-hegemonic and hegemonic discourses, specifically a series of continuities, slippages, and dynamics of neutralization between activists’ ‘critical’ stances and the discourses of neoliberal capitalism. This dissertation traces those continuities, slippages, and dynamics of neutralization within a conceptual framework structured around three figurations: the figure of critical consciousness; the figure of a great man and the figure of a universal transcendent subject. |
| Supervisor | Kurowska Xymena |
| Department | International Relations PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/maczynska_ewa.pdf |
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