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Ethnic categories and the context of migration in Beregszász
120-137Views:156In the paper, we try to demonstrate what migration trends in Beregszász have been conducted
in focus group discussions on everyday ethnicity, and how ethnicity appears in these migration
processes. In the study, we mainly summarize the findings of the research, which we carried
out in the summer of 2016 and reflected in some descriptions of the changes that have taken
place since the summer of 2017. The study is primarily descriptive and only interprets issues
within ethnicity and ethnic categories, we do not aim to compare the conclusions with previous
migration research results. In the analysis, the social constructivism methodological approach
is applied. Our aim is to present the discourses: how the opinions are constructed and differing
opinions can form unity. -
Presence and plebiscitary representation: Representative performances of Viktor Orbán and Péter Magyar in the 2024 election campaign
39-67Views:276The study examines the interactions of meaning effects and presence effects in the mass events of Viktor Orbán and Péter Magyar in the 2024 election campaign, attempting to show that the performances of both leaders can be interpreted as forms of plebiscitary representation, although there are also substantial differences between them (for example, in the degree of asymmetry of the representative relationship and the palette of leader-follower interactions). The text argues that such an analysis, blending traditional aspects of representational claims analysis with ethnographic method, can help to shed light on a blind spot in contemporary performative approaches to representation: the corporeal-material aspects of performativity. Plebiscitary representation, in which a unified mass acclaiming a leader plays a key role, is a particularly suitable context for demonstrating the importance of presence-effects in the constitutive process of representation.
