Béla Filep

For the German- and Hungarian-speaking audience I published summary articles of my book The Politics of Good Neighbourhood. The Hungarian version was recently published in a new journal of the Institute for the Protection of Minority Rights. Both articles can be found on my publications site.

In March, I visited Romania for fieldwork on the Szekler autonomy movement. The first product is an article in the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung published on 15 May 2018. Here is the PDF-Version.

In the last two months, I visited Catalonia twice for fieldwork. Here you find information and analysis on the current tensions in Catalonia.

In June 2017, I visited the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia and the adjacent border regions of Hungary, Croatia and Romania with a group of 14 students to trace the dynamics of physical and mental borders in East Central Europe. A TV report on the excursion you find here.

My latest book The Politics of Good Neighbourhood: State, Civil Society and the Enhancement of Cultural Capital in East Central Europe was published by Routledge in October 2016. Analyzing neighbourly relations in multicultural societies, this book develops a concept of good neighbourhood and argues that cultural capital in various forms is the determining variable in building … The Politics of Good Neighbourhood weiterlesen

In June 2015 I visited the border regions of Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine with a group of 22 students to trace the dynamics of physical and mental borders in East Central Europe.