I am talking today with Zoltán Ginelli, a Hungarian critical geographer whose research repositions the semi-peripheral experience of Hungarian modernization in a global context, by studying the many points of connections linking peoples, ideas, expertise, institutions and political utopias in Hungary to other peripheries in the postcolonial Global South. Zoltán has co-curated a fantastic exhibition in Budapest entitled  Transperiphery Movement, where he examines these trans-peripheral connections in collaboration with a host of artists and scholars. We talk about Zoltán’s own research on postcoloniality, race and global history from an Eastern European perspective, and the themes through which the exhibition examines these topics.

The Transperiphery Movement Exhibition:

https://offbiennale.hu/en/2021/projects/transzperiferia-mozgalom?fbclid=IwAR2UgccwXbjkYhLNjuF5NkXKO34WjNyAM0slS42L8FyVcWWtqjBXMo0O2FI

https://transperiphery.com/

https://www.facebook.com/transperiphery

Instagram: transperiphery

twitter: @transperiphery

The Decolonizing Eastern Europe Facebook Group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/257972308642861

https://twitter.com/DecolonizingE

Zoltán's Research:

http://mezosfera.org/hungarian-experts-in-nkrumahs-ghana/?fbclid=IwAR00EnV45B6JI2TXnsCj4YCUC1adZtgHirT0h3_wbB_EFQQs-DzIvhbsUGw

https://kritikaifoldrajz.hu/2020/04/02/postcolonial-hungary-eastern-european-semiperipheral-positioning-in-global-colonialism/?fbclid=IwAR2ArmVUEAgbcSB-pDf4ohp3cUjm6qEbEUAjZaduhI5i0_G5e8jpVVClsNM

https://uni-leipzig1.academia.edu/Zolt%C3%A1nGinelli

Other References:

https://iupress.org/9780253046512/alternative-globalizations/?fbclid=IwAR1mgnD_T1NIj2PDqPMBlhlHHTj2wLOLRwurPGQPpTPzZ4zb4BPXzfo9JJg