Karl Polanyi Research Center of Global Social Studies

Karl Polanyi Research Center of Global Social Studies The Center promotes comparative and interdisciplinary studies with a global perspective.

The Center promotes comparative and interdisciplinary studies with a global perspective at the intersection of economics, sociology and international relations, simultaneously analyzing global and local dynamics and their interconnectedness. Our aim is to scrutinize historically evolving transnational linkages, persistent inequalities and conflicts between social groups, communities and various re

gions of the world. We are committed to research and training, which avoids pitfalls of Eurocentrism or any other ways of essentializations widespread in social sciences and humanities. Our work takes a critical stance to uncover entrenched ideas that justify established regimes of global governance that perpetuate forms of redistribution and inequalities. We are also committed to future oriented studies, in the sense that we would like to reflect on possible alternatives to prevailing governmental practices both on the local and the global level. The Research Center is especially interested in the following topics:
• global population dynamics
• international migration (various types of mobility in the context of local or global inequalities)
• development and persistence of global hierarchies and systems of inequalities
• recent development of East European societies including state socialist past
• the construction of identities in local and transnational contexts
• interrelatedness of local, national or global social or political discourses
• developmental policies

In our current world, where the ideas, the practices of social self-defense and social control and the heritage of criti...
06/02/2025

In our current world, where the ideas, the practices of social self-defense and social control and the heritage of critical sociology are swallowed by a swamp of territorial and identity wars, fights and pseudo-scientific shouting, we can hardly imagine a greater loss than that of Michael Burawoy. During his life he has always found the right paths and directions ahead both intellectually and politically. He also dared to be a person who integrates currents and ideas instead of turning them against each other. In order not to lose his real heritage and the momentum due to his tireless efforts, we will very soon organize an event where we have to map the tasks he pointed at in sociology and as a responsible intellectual.
Very shortly here is the last event in 2022 on the escalation of crises in global capitalism, where we could enjoy his clear reasoning and intellectual power. He has always supported us and we have been in close contact with him to cooperate and to think together.
https://www.karlpolanyicenter.org/post/new-times-confronting-the-escalating-crises-of-global-capitalism

We would like to thank Eszter Simon all her great contribution to our common project on non-capitalist mixed economies a...
30/11/2023

We would like to thank Eszter Simon all her great contribution to our common project on non-capitalist mixed economies and critical social science. She did this with dedication and kindness, which can only be a trait of great spirits. She is not with us anymore and with saddened and broken heart we have to say goodbye. We do this with a promise that her work and her contribution will be our common heritage on the basis which we try to think over better social models. A better and more just/stable/humane world will be her result also. We express our full solidarity with her family and community and we thank that we could work with her. We share the post of Social Theory College remembering her.
https://www.facebook.com/tekesek/posts/pfbid02uDDpKR1LHfNcyJ5XpUAA8cmCD8RYK7c53Sb4oyg7s51T652iSmBQtDN4PnEySBaSl

HUNGARIAN COLONYOur founding member, geographer and global historian Zoltán Ginelli started a new social media site for ...
02/10/2023

HUNGARIAN COLONY

Our founding member, geographer and global historian Zoltán Ginelli started a new social media site for a Hungarian audience based on more than 10 years of research. "Hungarian Colony" (Magyar Gyarmat) is dedicated to understanding the global histories of Hungarian coloniality and race. In particular, it aims to explore Hungarian semiperipheral articulations of race and coloniality within global colonialism and the capitalist world-system. The website also presents materials from a forthcoming co-authored monograph on this subject to be published by Cambridge University Press.

https://www.facebook.com/magyargyarmat

Debate on The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing.Contested marketization and communitization of care: migrant li...
30/05/2023

Debate on The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing.

Contested marketization and communitization of care: migrant live-in care and caring communities in Austria - a blog by Florian Pimminger for the International Karl Polanyi Society.

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