Eva Tessza Udvarhelyi

Student Fellow

Eva Tessza Udvarhelyi is a doctoral candidate in environmental psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has an MA in cultural anthropology from ELTE University in Budapest where she researched the exclusion of homeless people from public spaces. At CUNY, she got an MA in Psychology with a thesis that focused on the Critical Mass movement in Budapest as a form of embodied democratic practice. In 2009 Udvarhelyi co-founded a group called The City is for All, which is the only homeless-led advocacy organization in Hungary. Udvarhelyi’s dissertation is about the criminalization of homelessness and the potential for homeless people to resist it.

Participating Years

2012–2013

Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future

The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?