CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Beck, Barnabas |
|---|---|
| Title | What's Left to Do?: Leftist Identity and Challenges to the Political Imagination in the Illiberal Regime |
| Summary | In this thesis, I study the position of young self-described leftists in the illiberal regime of Hungary. I ask the question of how the hybridity and hegemony of the regime impacts how people negotiate their self-identification as leftist. Based on digital and offline ethnographic work at anti-government protests, events held by leftist organisations and in leftist spaces, and interviews with members of leftist organisations in Budapest, I show that the schismogenesis and constriction of discursive space by the illiberal regime shifts how young leftists perceive hegemony and boundary in the Hungarian political field. The thesis aims to contribute to the discussion of the functioning of hybrid regimes by shifting focus towards how such a regime impacts the identity and behaviour of its own opposition. |
| Supervisor | Naumescu, Vlad; Berg, Anna Lea |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/beck_barnabas.pdf |
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