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Book Chapters

Here you’ll find the book chapters written by DI researchers.

Dorota Szelewa, Dorottya Szikra: Leave Policies in Populist and Illiberal Regimes: The Cases of Hungary and Poland

The chapter of our Research Fellow Dorottya Szikra and Dorota Szelewa in Research Handbook on Leave Policy compares policy changes in Hungary and Poland, two countries with the electoral victories of the right-wing populist parties during the 2010s.

Janos Kis: How Is Critical Economic Theory Possible? – Preface

The book’s “concerns respond to the parallel upsurge and defeat of the New Left in the West and the Prague Spring in Eastern Europe, and the ideological tensions between those parallel movements,” our Senior Research Fellow Janos Kis writes in the new Preface of How Is Critical Economic Theory Possible?

Renata Uitz: The Urban Landscape of Illiberalism: Erasing Traces of Dissent from the Public Square in Hungary

In her chapter in Democratic Crisis Revisited, our Co-director Renata Uitz explores how traces of dissent have been erased from the public square in Hungary.

Georgiana Turculet: Academics Stuck in Movement Amidst Precarity, Hypermobility, and Vulnerability

In her chapter in Academic Freedom and Precarity in the Global North our Research Affiliate Georgiana Turculet raises several normative questions around the phenomenon of being stuck in movement, which are underexamined in the literature of ethics of migration.

Janos M. Bak, Gabor Klaniczay: The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages: Popular Traditions and Medievalism

In their chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe Janos M. Bak and our Research Affiliate Gabor Klaniczay reflect on popular memories and various manifestations of interest in the real or imaginary Middle Ages which circulated in the past three centuries.

Leyla Safta-Zecheria: The Authoritarian Turn Against Academics in Turkey

“Academic solidarity with vulnerabilized groups has come to be penalized by authoritarian governments through criminalization and precarization of academics,” our Research Affiliate Leyla Safta-Zecheria writes in her chapter in Opening Up the University.

Laura Rahm: Bioethics, Sex Selection, and Gender Equity

In her book chapter in International Handbook of Population Policies, our Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow Laura Rahm examines the emerging challenges and ethical dimensions of technological developments in reproduction as well as their policy implications.

Erin K. Jenne, Andras Bozoki, Peter Visnovitz: Antisemitic Tropes, Fifth Columnism and "Soros-Bashing": The Curious Case of Central European University

Hungarian Prime Minister Orban and his media allies discursively interpellated specific individuals and states as “financiers” and “global powers” as cogs in a global “Soros network,” our Research Affiliates Erin Jenne and Andras Bozoki, and Peter Visnovitz write in their chapter in Enemies Within, published by Oxford University Press.

Christophe Z. Guilmoto, Laura Rahm: Sex Selection: Public Policies to Balance the Scales?

The chapter of our Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow Laura Rahm and Christophe Z. Guilmoto in Populism and Development Issues provides a brief state of the art of gender-biased sex selection (GBSS), covering the current situation in the world.

Barbara Grabowska-Moroz, Dimitry Kochenov: The Loss of Face for Everyone Concerned

“Rule of law is not secured sufficiently, either in the EU or by the EU, causing all concerned to lose face,” Barbara Grabowska-Moroz and Dimitry Kochenov write in their book chapter published by Cambridge University Press.