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 The Gendered Articulation of Social and Individual Concerns in Hungary: Citizens’ Narratives under Right-Wing Populist Rule

 

Előadó: Ujlaki Anna (ELTE TK PTI)

Szerzők: Ujlaki Anna, Acsády Judit, Balogh Lídia, Paksi Veronika, Tardos Katalin

Hozzászólók:

• Turai K. Ráhel, egyetemi adjunktus, ELTE TáTK Politikai és Nemzetközi Tanulmányok Intézete
• Takács Judit, kutatóprofesszor, ELTE TK SZI

Időpont: 2026. november 05 . csütörtök 13:00

Helyszín: Az eseményt hibrid formában tartjuk meg. 
Személyesen: Szociológiai Intézet 1097 Budapest Tóth Kálmán utca 4.;  B.1.15

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Absztrakt 

 

The article examines how gender-based needs were articulated in Hungary during right-wing populist party (RWPP) governance. During the sixteen years of RWPP rule, the term gender became highly politicised and deliberately linked to foreign, mostly Western political strategies. Meanwhile, gender rarely featured as a primary concern in public discourse. Drawing on theories of post-socialist change, feminism, and gendered positional deprivation, we aimed to explore how citizens articulated gender-based needs shaped by post-socialist legacies and anti-gender policies during a period of RWPP rule. Using a multimethod design, we conducted four focus groups with switcher voters (from mainstream opposition parties to RWPPs) and two citizens’ workshops. Findings suggest that gendered expectations emerge as secondary articulations embedded in wider narratives of existential insecurity, social decline, and moral transformation, functioning less as a basis for political claims than as a mediating category through which individuals interpret broader socio-economic insecurities and historical legacies. Practical implications are also provided.

 

Keywords: gender, gender-based needs, right-wing populist parties, Hungary, economic insecurity, citizen narratives