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Csaba Szalo

Masaryk University, Sociology, Department Member

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Papers by Csaba Szalo

The existential spatiality of rebellion: Insubordination, counter-conduct, and places

Sociology Compass, 2020

This article reviews the current discourse on urban struggles to bring to the surface strategies ... more This article reviews the current discourse on urban struggles to bring to the surface strategies of interpretation , which deal with theoretical concerns insinuated by the situated existence of struggling subjects. The first part, concentrating on the domain of "negative places," contrasts interpretive strategies distinguished by their orientation to the phenomena of local solidarities, alternatively, solidar-ities organized by collective projects. The second part turns from "negative places" to "other places" to consider the strategy of interpretation operating with the concept of affective solidarities. The article argues for a critical reinterpretation of affective solidarities in reference to Foucault's idea of "other places" to disclose how the disobedient subject's transfiguration into collective subjects of solidarity is entwined with the diversity of modes in which the corporeal existence of subjects is situated in the world.

Vynalezená a nalezená minulost: nástin sociologie kulturního traumatu

European Identity Politics

Zabuda Brno na Zbrojovku? Praktiky formovania urbannej pamati...

This article attempts to analyze controversies over a former armament factory called Zbrojovka Br... more This article attempts to analyze controversies over a former armament factory called Zbrojovka Brno. The area, full of various and often contradictory symbolic meanings, constitutes a significant urban memory space. We claim that this brownfield forms a part of urban memory that extends beyond its built materiality, mainly through its symbolic presence in the practices of various social actors. The article encompasses two closely interlinked aspects of contemporary urban memory practices addressing the past lives in the city: those shaping what is remembered as well as those influencing what should be remembered in the future. The first consists of narratives circulating in the discourse of the actors who are engaged within this brownfield, and the second is represented by forms of justifications and critiques that are considered legitimate in disputes about the future of "Zbrojovka." The analytical framework used in this research draws on the theoretical contributions of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, especially their pragmatic theory of justifiable orders of worth pluralism.

VÁŠ TRIANON, NÁŠ HOLOCAUST: SEGREGACE A INKLUZE KULTUR VZPOMÍNÁNÍ

O změně osvětlení a zbarvení všech věcí: sociální konstrukce zkušeností

O změně osvětlení a zbarvení všech věcí: sociální konstrukce zkušeností CSABA SZALÓ * Škola sociá... more O změně osvětlení a zbarvení všech věcí: sociální konstrukce zkušeností CSABA SZALÓ * Škola sociálních studií FF MU, Brno Toward a transfiguration of the world: the social construction of experience Abstract: The erosion of modern cultural authority is a characteristic feature of the contemporary post-modern condition. The emergence and dissemination of heretical discourses displace the apolitical self-evidence and universality of modern experience. This article attempts to depict recent cultural transfigurations of experience in three dimensions. Firstly, the erosion of modern political discourse suggests that history, progress, state, nation and society have lost their charisma of self-evidence. These cornerstones of modern political experience are disclosed as socially constructed imaginary totalisation. Secondly, the representation of gender as a social construct reveals the falsehood of essential human experience. Gender, as an example of otherness, shows that the construction of experience is closely linked to a power/knowledge nexus. Thirdly, Nietzsche's metaphor of language as a prison allows the role of discursive practices in the constitution of experience to be outlined. This article argues for a non-foundationalist perspective, which grasps the mediated character of experience, and accepts the condition of uncertainty produced by the play of ambiguity and power. * ) Veškerou korespondenci posílejte na adresu: PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Škola sociálních studií FF Masarykovy univerzity, Arne Nováka 1, 660 88 Brno.

Osm migrujících žen a jejich transnacionální sdílený svět* Eight Women Migrants and Their Shared Transnational World

When refl ecting on the symbolic integration of migrants into their host societies, sociological ... more When refl ecting on the symbolic integration of migrants into their host societies, sociological and anthropological discourses are challenged by the fact that recent migrants do not simply leave their homelands behind but make great efforts to maintain their attachments at a distance. In this article the authors examine a transnational migrant network of eight highly educated young women from the post-socialist region of southern Slovakia and devote special attention to the construction of their diasporic identity and shared lifeworld. They interpret the migration of these highly educated people not as a rupture but as a coherent continuation of their life course. In order to understand their recent biographical situation, it is necessary to consider the role that a particular form of habitus plays in migration. The authors claim that the experience of living in the culturally hybrid life-world of Czechoslovak Hungarians has played an important role in shaping their ability to live in the dual world of migrants.

Books by Csaba Szalo

Ethical Commitments and Modes of Temporality in later Georg Lukács

Csaba Szaló (2018). Ethical Commitments and Modes of Temporality in later Georg Lukács. In Walter Pape, Jiří Šubrt (Eds.), Mitteleuropa denken: Intellektuelle, Identitäten und Ideen: Der Kulturraum Mitteleuropa im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert (pp. 309–322). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter., 2018

The existential spatiality of rebellion: Insubordination, counter-conduct, and places

Sociology Compass, 2020

This article reviews the current discourse on urban struggles to bring to the surface strategies ... more This article reviews the current discourse on urban struggles to bring to the surface strategies of interpretation , which deal with theoretical concerns insinuated by the situated existence of struggling subjects. The first part, concentrating on the domain of "negative places," contrasts interpretive strategies distinguished by their orientation to the phenomena of local solidarities, alternatively, solidar-ities organized by collective projects. The second part turns from "negative places" to "other places" to consider the strategy of interpretation operating with the concept of affective solidarities. The article argues for a critical reinterpretation of affective solidarities in reference to Foucault's idea of "other places" to disclose how the disobedient subject's transfiguration into collective subjects of solidarity is entwined with the diversity of modes in which the corporeal existence of subjects is situated in the world.

Vynalezená a nalezená minulost: nástin sociologie kulturního traumatu

European Identity Politics

Zabuda Brno na Zbrojovku? Praktiky formovania urbannej pamati...

This article attempts to analyze controversies over a former armament factory called Zbrojovka Br... more This article attempts to analyze controversies over a former armament factory called Zbrojovka Brno. The area, full of various and often contradictory symbolic meanings, constitutes a significant urban memory space. We claim that this brownfield forms a part of urban memory that extends beyond its built materiality, mainly through its symbolic presence in the practices of various social actors. The article encompasses two closely interlinked aspects of contemporary urban memory practices addressing the past lives in the city: those shaping what is remembered as well as those influencing what should be remembered in the future. The first consists of narratives circulating in the discourse of the actors who are engaged within this brownfield, and the second is represented by forms of justifications and critiques that are considered legitimate in disputes about the future of "Zbrojovka." The analytical framework used in this research draws on the theoretical contributions of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, especially their pragmatic theory of justifiable orders of worth pluralism.

VÁŠ TRIANON, NÁŠ HOLOCAUST: SEGREGACE A INKLUZE KULTUR VZPOMÍNÁNÍ

O změně osvětlení a zbarvení všech věcí: sociální konstrukce zkušeností

O změně osvětlení a zbarvení všech věcí: sociální konstrukce zkušeností CSABA SZALÓ * Škola sociá... more O změně osvětlení a zbarvení všech věcí: sociální konstrukce zkušeností CSABA SZALÓ * Škola sociálních studií FF MU, Brno Toward a transfiguration of the world: the social construction of experience Abstract: The erosion of modern cultural authority is a characteristic feature of the contemporary post-modern condition. The emergence and dissemination of heretical discourses displace the apolitical self-evidence and universality of modern experience. This article attempts to depict recent cultural transfigurations of experience in three dimensions. Firstly, the erosion of modern political discourse suggests that history, progress, state, nation and society have lost their charisma of self-evidence. These cornerstones of modern political experience are disclosed as socially constructed imaginary totalisation. Secondly, the representation of gender as a social construct reveals the falsehood of essential human experience. Gender, as an example of otherness, shows that the construction of experience is closely linked to a power/knowledge nexus. Thirdly, Nietzsche's metaphor of language as a prison allows the role of discursive practices in the constitution of experience to be outlined. This article argues for a non-foundationalist perspective, which grasps the mediated character of experience, and accepts the condition of uncertainty produced by the play of ambiguity and power. * ) Veškerou korespondenci posílejte na adresu: PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Škola sociálních studií FF Masarykovy univerzity, Arne Nováka 1, 660 88 Brno.

Osm migrujících žen a jejich transnacionální sdílený svět* Eight Women Migrants and Their Shared Transnational World

When refl ecting on the symbolic integration of migrants into their host societies, sociological ... more When refl ecting on the symbolic integration of migrants into their host societies, sociological and anthropological discourses are challenged by the fact that recent migrants do not simply leave their homelands behind but make great efforts to maintain their attachments at a distance. In this article the authors examine a transnational migrant network of eight highly educated young women from the post-socialist region of southern Slovakia and devote special attention to the construction of their diasporic identity and shared lifeworld. They interpret the migration of these highly educated people not as a rupture but as a coherent continuation of their life course. In order to understand their recent biographical situation, it is necessary to consider the role that a particular form of habitus plays in migration. The authors claim that the experience of living in the culturally hybrid life-world of Czechoslovak Hungarians has played an important role in shaping their ability to live in the dual world of migrants.

Ethical Commitments and Modes of Temporality in later Georg Lukács

Csaba Szaló (2018). Ethical Commitments and Modes of Temporality in later Georg Lukács. In Walter Pape, Jiří Šubrt (Eds.), Mitteleuropa denken: Intellektuelle, Identitäten und Ideen: Der Kulturraum Mitteleuropa im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert (pp. 309–322). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter., 2018