June 21

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

2.A.06

Aliz Nagy

Abstract: The paper introduces consequences of the Hungarian nation building project on the case study of Transylvania and argues that claim-making potential of Transylvanian organizations decreases by the intervention of the Hungarian government. Discussion of autonomy struggles provide a plausible way of understanding this phenomenon.

The paper investigates two relevant political parties: EMNT, RMDSZ and their connected civil organizations to show how activities of those are influenced. Discursive panels of Hungarian politics are detected among discourses of the organizations, wherein the political community of Hungary is becoming more relevant than the one of Transylvania, or Romania.
The Transylvanian case study demonstrates a phenomenon which is the consequence of Hungary expanding its political community beyond border with the extension of citizenship and voting rights. The paper demonstrates that kin-state engagement and ethnic mobilization could not only take place along the lines of the ethnic parties’ and the kin-state’s political spectrum, it can transform the civil and political organizations of the kin-minority resulting in the gradual loss of autonomous claim-making.

Disciplines: Sociology
Political Science

Substantive Tags: Central Europe, Institutions

Research Networks: None of the Above

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