CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Szollosi, Luca |
|---|---|
| Title | Infrastructures of unevenness: Structural drivers and embodied experiences of energy deprivation in Budapest's residential buildings |
| Summary | Hungary’s housing situation is characterised by stark disparities and socio-spatial unevenness. Based on 3,5 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the inner districts of Budapest, in the focus of this thesis is the structural drivers and manifestations of energy deprivation in the historical multiapartment residential buildings that characterise the built fabric of the inner-city. My work conceptualises energy deprivation as a social, political, and inherently material concern, as it is the technical quality and infrastructural condition of buildings where the problems of unaffordability, discomfort and the poor energy performance of dwellings become most pronounced. Situating my work in a Marxist theoretical tradition, I will draw on human geography scholarship and critical urban theory to discuss how the manifestations and drivers of energy deprivation overlap with other dimensions of the housing crisis in Budapest. Besides serving as a productive site for examining how social and spatial inequalities are entrenched and reproduced, I aim to demonstrate how a focus on materiality and infrastructure is a helpful interrogative tool for a more nuanced analysis of how processes of uneven development are grounded in the built environment. |
| Supervisor | Bodnár, Judit; Markkula, Johanna |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/szollosi_luca.pdf |
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