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Hungarian Westsplaining

A strange ambivalence lurks behind how Hungarian politics forcefully captured ‘coloniality’ vis-á-vis the ‘West’, while ‘West’-oriented anti-colonialism rejects any systemic criticism of Hungary-centered global colonialism(s). On the full political spectrum, Hungarian culture became a hotbed of self-colonizing mimicry, a staged ‘West simulacrum’ populated by turn-key imports of ‘the West’. However, nobody addressed the geographies behind ‘West imaginaries’, the divisions of labor in ‘colonizer/non-colonizer’ difference-making, the non-comparative ‘colonial identity politics’ of competitive nativist victimhood, and the controversial, multi-layered, imagined, yet unitary concept of ‘the West’.

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The Hungarian ‘Colonial Turn’ of 2012: Commemorating 1848 as ‘Habsburg Colonialism’ in Anti-Western Public Discourse

On 15 March 2012, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered a commemorative speech during the national anniversary of the declaration of Hungarian independence from ‘Habsburg colonialism’ in 1848. The speech was pivotal in setting the course for Hungary’s new official political agenda: “we will not become a colony of the West”. The primordial historical date of 1848 served to articulate the concept of ‘Habsburg colonialism’ not only for 19th century Hungarians, but also to support the anti-Western and anti-colonialist positioning of the later communist regime (1947–1989) during its opening to decolonizing Afro-Asian countries, just as it serves today the ‘opening to the East and South’ of the Fidesz government after 2012.

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Akkumulátor-gyarmatosítás Magyarországon

A nyugatcentrikus ellenzék csupán tükrözte a kormány nyugatellenes gyarmati diskurzusát. Így született az “orosz gyarmatosítás” és a “kínai gyarmatosítás” elleni kritika is (pl. a Fudan Egyetemhez kapcsolódó tüntetésben, amelynek főszervezője a Szikra Mozgalom volt), amely erősen táplálkozott az orientalista rasszizmus régi gyarmati diskurzusaiból is. Ezekre az előzményekre épített újabban a kormány akkumulátor-ipari és elektromosautó-gyári beruházásaival szembeni “akkumulátor-gyarmatosítás” szlogenje is. A tanulmány az “akkumulátor-gyarmatosítás” politikai kommunikációját dolgozza fel a magyarországi gyarmati fordulat kontextusában és a gyarmatkritikus (dekoloniális) világrendszer-elemzés megközelítésében.

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‘We Never Had Colonies’: Episodes in the Global Histories of Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Hungary before the Second World War

I presented my paper ‘We Never Had Colonies’: Episodes in the Global Histories of Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Hungary before the Second World War at the academic conference Colonial Entanglements in Central and Eastern Europe before 1939 organized by Agata Łuksza and Łukasz Zaremba on 4–5 September 2023 at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw (IKP UW) in cooperation with Leibniz ScienceCampus ‘Eastern Europe – Global Area’ (EEGA).

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‘We Never Had Colonies’: Global Histories of Race and Colonialism in Hungary, 1850–1939

Global history has often ignored how race and coloniality articulated Eastern European economic, structural, and world-systemic positions. This talk will refute these approaches by exposing the role played by race and coloniality in Hungary’s semiperipheral integration to the capitalist-colonial world economy between the mid-19th century and the 1940s – the era of Hungary’s opening up to global colonialism during ‘high imperialism’.

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Transperiphery Movement: Colonia Hungaria

The Transperiphery Movement attempts to recapture revolutionary action by tracing forgotten interperipheral circulations between Eastern Europe and the Global South. The transcolonial geographic history of “Colonia Hungaria” – a semi-fictitious Hungarian colonial ecumen – questions, dispositions, disorders and challenges hegemonic histories of global racial-colonial capitalism.