Szabina Kerényi PhD is a research fellow at the Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences. She has obtained her doctoral degree at the Department of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University. Her research interests include political participation, social movements, civil society and the social aspects of sustainability. She is a member of the Research Centre for Social Ecology and Climate Change, and is involved in the Interfaced Horizon project.
Gerő, M., Kerényi, Sz. (2025) ’Hungary – The Changing Roles of Civil Society and Social Movements Facing Autocratisation.’ In Power and Protest in Central and Eastern Europe, Claudiu Crăciun and Henry P. Rammelt (eds). Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3031-77888-9_7.
Zakariás, I,, Kovai, M., Kovai, C., Kerényi, Sz. (2025) ’Is there a place for ‘community’? Transnational governance, post-socialist authoritarianism, and deinstitutionalization in a child protection NGO in Hungary’ International Journal of Sociology 55 : 2 pp. 113-134. , 22 p. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2024.2420492
Gerő, M., Fejős, A., Kerényi, Sz., & Szikra, D. (2023). From Exclusion to Co-Optation: Political Opportunity Structures and Civil Society Responses in De-Democratising Hungary. Politics and Governance, 11(1), 16-27. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v11i1.5883
Buzogány, Á., Kerényi, Sz., & Olt, G. (2022) Back to the grassroots? The shrinking space of environmental activism in illiberal Hungary, Environmental Politics, 31:7, 1267-1288, DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2022.2113607
Csányi, G., Kerényi, Sz. (2021) A Semi-Peripheral Myth of the “Good Mother”: The History of Motherly Love in Hungary from a Global Perspective. In: Mayer CH. – Vanderheiden E. (eds) International Handbook of Love. Springer, Cham. (ISBN: 978-3-030-45995-6) pp. 317-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_17
Sustainable consumption patterns, behavioral strategies and knowledge use in the Hungarian society. A social scientific analysis of sustainable food and energy consumption, NRDI OTKA 2021-2024 (participant researcher, PI: Bernadett Csurgó)