Margit Feischmidt

The project aims to contribute to the understanding of nationalism in the context of the rise of the far right, the expansion of populist authoritarian regimes, and, most recently, in connection with resistance and revolt against illiberal autocracy, using Hungary as a case study. As part of this effort, I wish to complete a chapter of a book using the results of a recent empirical investigation on modalities of resistance and rebellion in spaces of civic solidarity, framed in nationalist terms. The ultimate objective is to complete a book manuscript that provides an empirically grounded and theoretically stimulating account of political conditions, the cultural construction, and the social resonance of new forms of nationalism in the 2010s and 2020s. Most importantly, it aims to understand how this authoritarian turn has created and deployed nationalist myths, symbols and narratives. Ultimately, and keeping the research as relevant to the present as possible, it is also seeking to understand what kind of nationalist rhetoric and framing political and cultural opposition of the authoritarian regimes takes on.