Ferenc Gyuris

5. Social sciences
- 5.7 Social and economic geography
  - Cultural and economic geography
  - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
  - Urban studies (Planning and development)
6. Humanities
- 6.1 History and Archaeology
  - History

Main research areas

Spatial disparities

Investigating the political discourse and theories of spatial disparities, scientific research on spatial disparities, methods of analyzing spatial disparities, and practices of managing spatial disparities.

Keywords

spatial disparities, analyzing spatial disparities, managing spatial disparities, theory, spatial disparities, political discourse

Geographies of communism and postcommunism

Scrutinizing the economic and political geographies of China, Hungary, and Russia.

Keywords

China, Hungary, Russia

Geography of knowledge

Studying the geography of science and economic knowledge.

Keywords

Geopolitics of the economy, Geoeconomics, Geography of science, economic knowledge, geography of knowledge

History of geography

Scrutinizing the history of Hungarian geography, the history of the "quantitative revolution" in geography, and the possibilities of decolonizing and internationalizing the history of geography.

Keywords

history of geography, decolonizing the history of geography, internationalizing the history of geography, „quantitative revolution”

The economy of China

Investigating regional economic development and investment and resource allocation in China, and overseas Chinese investments.

Keywords

Regional economic development, investment, resource allocation, Overseas Chinese investments

Economic geography

Analyzing global production networks and spatial economic disparities.

Keywords

Global Production Networks, Spatial economic disparities

Geopolitics

Investigating the geopolitics of the economy, studies in geoeconomics.

Keywords

Geopolitics of the economy, Geoeconomics

Geography of the commons

Studying the spatiality of the commons.

Keywords

Commons, spatiality

Geopolitical risk analysis

Investigating geopolitical and geoeconomic risks to the efficient, sustainable and fair functioning of society and the economy.

Keywords

Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, Risk Analysis

Sustainable water management

The spatial analysis of water management challenges along with environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable solutions to these challenges.

Keywords

Sustainability, Water management, Environmental sustainability, Social sustainability, Economic sustainability, Sustainable local and regional development

Highlighted publications

2014 – Gyuris, Ferenc – The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities – mtmt.hu
2022 – Gyuris, Ferenc; Michel, Boris; Paulus, Katharina – Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography – mtmt.hu
2022 – Gyuris, Ferenc – Diversifying Dependencies? Hungary, the EU, and the Multifaceted Geopolitics of Chinese Infrastructure Investments – mtmt.hu
2024 – Gyuris, Ferenc ✉; Jobbitt, Steven; Győri, Róbert – Hungarian Geography between 1870 and 1920: Negotiating Empire and Coloniality on the Global Semiperiphery – mtmt.hu
2025 – Gyuris, F; Borbély, Gy; Kocsi, V A – Global production networks: A geographical review of a research tradition – mtmt.hu