Head of research: Margit Feischmidt

Participants: Judit Durst, Márton Gerő (CSS Institute of Sociology), Rita Glózer (University of Pécs), Noémi Katona (CSS Institute of Sociology), Eszter Neumann, Zsanna Nyírő, Attila Papp Z., Gergely Pulay, Ildikó Zakariás, Violetta Zentai (CEU), Csilla Zsigmond

Grant, funding agency: NKFI K-146630 

Period: 2024-

 

Research questions and objectives:

The aim of this research is to find actors and spaces of social solidarity, to understand their ideas and practices, and their relevance to their social environments. The solidarity practices to be understood aim to support vulnerable social groups, on the one hand, and to address crisis and shortage situations in various social services, on the other. The research pays particular attention to the transformative effects of solidarity actions, which effects are examined in material-distributive, ideological-political and social-relational dimensions. All of these are examined in local contexts, where subtle webs of social relationships, power and dependency links, and political configurations can be closely observed and captured.

Full proposal

Research history:

Humanitarian assistance to refugees in Hungary

Solidarity as an answer to the crisis caused by the pandemic: actions and discourses

Helping Displaced People from Ukraine: Collective Forms and Social Contexts of solidarity