Responsibility for Each Other. Cross-Border Discourses on National Constellation (Transylvanian-Hungarian, Hungarian-Transylvanian)
Responsibility for Each Other. Cross-Border Discourses on National Constellation (Transylvanian-Hungarian, Hungarian-Transylvanian)

Author(s): L. Zoltán Simon
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Summary/Abstract: This lecture (partially) thinks over the cultural anthropology examinations of the ‘national discourses’ of the recent years and the present days. We would like to describe the term ‘national discourse’ with the present socio-political, ethno-political, ethno-cultural and minority strategies in connection with the ‘Hungarian commonwealth’. The image and the description of the ‘discoursing communities’ between the categories of Transylvania-Hungary and Hungary- Transylvania comprise the following notions: majority-minority, homeland, motherland, bolsterer, advocated. It also contains the paradigms of physical forms of making connections (‘I have been in Transylvania’, ‘I have been over in Hungary’). In addition, we discuss the changes in mental sense and physical aspect to the state borders that have been occurring after Romania joined the European Union (if there is any kind of change).

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