Luca Sára BródyHUN-REN KRTK Centre for Econonimc and Regional Studies · Institute for Refional Studies
Luca Sára Bródy
PhD in Urban Studies
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Introduction
I am an urban sociologist and received my PhD in urban studies in 2019. Currently I hold a postdoctoral research fellow position at the HUN-REN KRTK Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest, and I am also a research affiliate at Södertörn University, Stockholm. My research interests lie in the area of social movements and civic mobilisation, state-civil society relationships, urban-rural divides, local development, and food sovereignty initiatives.
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June 2024 - present
Education
November 2015 - October 2019
September 2013 - July 2014
September 2004 - June 2010
Publications
Publications (16)
The weak civil society thesis in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has been central to scholarly debates that interpret civil society using a Western lens. Touching upon the issue of food sovereignty, we contest this conceptualisation by revealing the wider networks and strength of food-related local practices in Hungary after the 1990s. In doing so...
Most research on post-socialist civil society has focused on analysing the characteristics that explain (the lack of) civic strength. Although recent research has highlighted the rise of urban activism, it has failed to look more closely at the agency of actors. By focusing on informal groups and their engagement in public affairs in the aftermath...
This paper aims to unfold how peripheral reindustrialisation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) produced multiple marginalities in local spaces. Relying on a cultural political economic (CPE) approach, we analyse how the imaginary of reindustrialisation encompassed the discourses on development and the strategies and practices of powerful agents o...
Social innovation practices have attracted increasing attention in recent years. Especially in cities and urban areas, they have represented both a response to emerging social needs seldom addressed by declining forms of state welfare support and a platform for innovating inherited understandings of collective action and activism in cities. The aut...
A társadalmi részvétel mindig is a kortárs városkutatások népszerű témája volt. A városfejlesztési beavatkozásokban a társadalmi részvételt általában a városi színtéren folyó konszenzuson vagy konfliktuson alapuló véleménynyilvánítási folyamatnak tekintik; a hazai vizsgálatok változatos megközelítési módokat alkalmaztak e mechanizmusok feltérképezé...
As a corollary of the global financial crisis of 2008, vacancy has become, once again, a visible and politically significant issue, playing a key role in determining how cities respond to both local and wider global challenges. Temporary use practices have been the focus of attention from scholars who have analysed them as both sites of resistance,...
A renaissance of community gardening is unfolding on a global urban scale. Scholars have analysed community gardening projects as empowering, contested or controlled spaces depending on the local governance networks in which, or despite of which, they emerge. Focusing on the political-economic context in which gardening activities emerge in Amsterd...
With the onset of the global financial and economic crisis in 2008, citizen participation in urban regeneration has once again become a crucial discursive element of struggle over the position of the citizen in organising society. However, inquiry is commonly reduced to the binary debate over whether citizen mobilisation serves ‘neoliberal austerit...
This thesis analyses the recent proliferation of urban gardening projects in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Wandering around the city, the observer can often run into these new forms of urban spaces. In recent years, citizens, institutions and other private actors both engaged in the creation of urban gardening projects. The focus of this study is bas...