Research Interests

Gergely Olt is an assistant researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology. Currently he is a PhD candidate at the ELTE Sociology Doctoral School. His research interests in the broadest senses are the complexity of relations between the state, political power and capital and how rents are created for given social groups. For this he uses a postcolonial approach of political economic mechanisms. These issues appear in research about how local political and institutional contexts affect urban transformations and how these contextually different experiences can be theorised by the revision of universally claimed political economic theories. His publications are about locally appearing social conflicts (i.e. gentrification, touristification, mega-projects), social movements involved in them, and about issues of local sovereignty in different socio-political contexts. These publications were the results of several empirical research projects such as “The sociology of urban planning  - urban planning and society” lead by Adrienne Csizmady,  the H2020 project “RE-DWELL” about affordable housing provision, or the project about “Residential mortgage lending” and the foreign currency mortgages, a joint project of Metropolitan Research Institute and Centre for Social Sceinces.