Agnes Gagyi
Agnes Gagyi is a Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at University of Gothenburg since 2017. Before that she taught sociology and communication in Hungary, and conducted research projects at George Mason University, USA, and New Europe College, Romania. In 2020 and 2021, she conducted guest research projects at the Imre Kertész Kolleg and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.
Agnes Gagyi is a social movement researcher, focusing on East European movements and politics from the perspective of the region’s long-term world market and geopolitical integration. Her previous research projects involved the international embeddedness of the alterglobalization movement in Hungary and Romania, the politics of post-2008 anti-austerity movements in Eastern Europe, comparative perspectives on waves of economic crisis and political mobilization in Hungary and Romania, and reorganizations of intellectual and expert knowledge structures during changes in modes of world market integration. (2025)
- Publications
- Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach (with Ioana Florea and Kerstin Jacobsson), Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, ix+243 pp.
- The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’: New Left Perspectives from the Region (editor, with Ondřej Slačálek), Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, xv+270 pp. Publisher.
- The Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary and Romania, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, x+294 pp. Publisher.
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