Agnes Gagyi is Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, where her current projects look at housing conflicts in Eastern Europe after 2008, and the social conditions of urban green infrastructures in face of the climate crisis. She is a founding member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet” in Budapest.

• 1.Social movements in Eastern Europe: problems of understanding non-Western contexts.- 2.External integration as internal force: middle class politics and the “politics of backwardness” in Eastern Europe.- 3.Crisis, regime change, movement: comparing mobilization cycles in Hungarian and Romanian constellations of global integration after 1973 and 2008.- 4.Long-term middle class politics and contemporary new left initiatives in Hungary and Romania.

Agnes Gagyi is Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, where her current projects look at housing conflicts in Eastern Europe after 2008, and the social conditions of urban green infrastructures in face of the climate crisis. She is a founding member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet” in Budapest.

• 1.Social movements in Eastern Europe: problems of understanding non-Western contexts.- 2.External integration as internal force: middle class politics and the “politics of backwardness” in Eastern Europe.- 3.Crisis, regime change, movement: comparing mobilization cycles in Hungarian and Romanian constellations of global integration after 1973 and 2008.- 4.Long-term middle class politics and contemporary new left initiatives in Hungary and Romania.

Agnes Gagyi is Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, where her current projects look at housing conflicts in Eastern Europe after 2008, and the social conditions of urban green infrastructures in face of the climate crisis. She is a founding member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet” in Budapest.

• 1.Social movements in Eastern Europe: problems of understanding non-Western contexts.- 2.External integration as internal force: middle class politics and the “politics of backwardness” in Eastern Europe.- 3.Crisis, regime change, movement: comparing mobilization cycles in Hungarian and Romanian constellations of global integration after 1973 and 2008.- 4.Long-term middle class politics and contemporary new left initiatives in Hungary and Romania.