Dr Katalin Halasz
Lecturer
- Email: katalin.halasz@brunel.ac.uk
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Research area(s)
- Race, whiteness, and gender
- Affect, senses, and embodiment
- Migration
- Belonging
- Nationalism
- Feminism and antiracism
- Arts-based and creative methodologies
Research grants and projects
Project details
Katalin's Leverhulme project 'Affective whiteness: racializing Hungarian national identity' explores how whiteness is constructed as an affective formation by the current Hungarian government to define national identity. The research is a timely engagement with debates on the future of whiteness, nationalism and migration.
Understanding and addressing the affective dimensions of racism, and the ways in which whiteness is lived and produced today is critical to challenging contemporary forms of racism across Europe. Through a ‘live sociology’ multi-method approach, the project utilizes interviews and artistic research methods (the production of an art installation and an experimental documentary) to interrogate the affective circuits of whiteness.