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Miről szóltak eddig a Szijjártó–Kuleba-találkozók?

A háttérben házkutatás, lehallgatás, retorikai hadviselés: miről szóltak eddig a Szijjártó–Kuleba-találkozók?

Hol a helye a kormányzati rendszerben a magyar és az ukrán külügyminiszternek? Hogyan alakultak a két ország közötti kapcsolatok az elmúlt három évben a jelenleg hivatalban levő külügyminiszterek találkozói tükrében? Az írás ezeket a kérdéseket járja körbe a 2024. január 29-i ungvári külügyminiszteri találkozó előtt.

Fedinec Csilla írása a 444-en olvasható.

Megelégszik-e Alijev Hegyi-Karabahhal és az örmények kiűzésével?

Hegyi-Karabah felszámolásával megszűnt a posztszovjet térség befagyott konfliktuszónáinak egyike. Hogyan alakultak ki ezek a konfliktuszónák a történelem során? Hogyan alakult Hegyi-Karabah sorsa az elmúlt évtizedekben, és milyen körülmények között történt a felszámolása? Hogyan hathat ez a térség biztonságára, illetve a kisebbségek sorsára?

Fedinec Csilla írása a 444-en olvasható.

Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization

Pulay Gergely Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization: The Search for the Good among Men on the Margins of Bucharest című tanulmánya az East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures folyóiratban jelent meg.

Absztrakt

In the most notorious, mixed Roma and non-Roma Romanian neighbourhood of Bucharest, structurally accumulated problems of governance turn into practical challenges that need to be tackled with the means at each person’s disposal. Under conditions of capitalist incorporation and prolonged crises on the post-socialist periphery, the main protagonists of this account—male members of an extended network of Spoitori Roma with diverse livelihoods—strive for relative independence not only from market forces but also from actors who may expose them to abuse. In this article, I reflect on personalized value struggles associated with marketization. Instead of accepting the sectorial divisions between formality and informality, I show how marketization elucidates moral evaluations of being and doing good among men who hope to be or become “their own bosses” in precarious urban conditions. Distinguishing folk and analytic concepts, my analysis engages with the moral contestation of the “good” and the ambiguity of value-based human endeavours among different layers of contemporary economic life.

Solidarity with Displaced People from Ukraine in Hungary

Zakariás Ildikó, Feischmidt Margit, Gerő Márton, Morauszki András, Zentai Violetta és Zsigmond Csilla Solidarity with Displaced People from Ukraine in Hungary: Attitudes and Practices című tanulmánya a Journal of International Migration and Integration folyóiratban jelent meg.

Absztrakt

The paper explores the attitudes of Hungarian civil society in the context of the war against Ukraine, the active agents of solidarity, and the general social atmosphere associated with welcoming displaced people. Based on a population survey from the summer of 2022, the paper draws an ambivalent picture. First, it highlights the exceptional momentum and mobilising power of civil solidarity both in terms of practical involvement and expressed attitudes. At the same time, the results also reveal the limits and vulnerabilities of civil solidarity—namely, its exposure to populist political discourses which cherish or condemn moral economies of assistance according to vested interests, as well as its embeddedness in a neoliberal reliance on citizens’ individual resources (disposable time and material means), and the salient inequalities in sharing the burdens of humanitarian support. All this reflects that the consensus and relative evenness of solidarity attitudes at the time of our survey were unevenly translated into practical help, burdening those already heavily charged with care responsibilities. With this finding, we underline the importance of exploring solidarity as a complex relationship of attitudes and practices; also, we highlight the need to include the perspectives of care in inquiries of the population’s attitude towards immigrant groups and categories. Our results are drawn from the application of multi-dimensional logistic regression models based on data from a statistical survey involving 1000 respondents representative of Hungary’s adult population.