Revolt of the Provinces

Kristóf Szombati has a background in both activism and academia. He recently completed his PhD at Central European University (Budapest) and received the ‘Best Dissertation’ award for his work on anti-Gypsyism in rural Hungary. He has published articles on far-right movements and on the intersection of politics, ethnicity and ‘race’. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship at Columbia University.

• List of maps and tablesForewordIvan SzelenyiPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Historic Contextualization: "Gypsies", "Magyars" and the StateChapter 2. Popular Racism in the Northeast: The Case of GyöngyöspataChapter 3. Redemptive Anti-Gypsyism: The Transposition of Struggles from the Social to the Political DomainChapter 4. Right-wing Rivalry and the Dual StateChapter 5. The Limits of Racist Mobilization: The Case of DevecserChapter 6. From Racism to Ultranationalism: Jobbik’s Transformation Through Ethnographic LensEpilogueReferencesIndex

Select Guide Rating