CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Szász, Anna |
|---|---|
| Title | Is Survival Resistance? Experiences of Gypsy Women Under Holocaust |
| Summary | My thesis claims that politics calls people’s existence constantly into question, that there are moments of transience and unpredictability built into humanity, endowing individuals with the consciousness and therefore the capacity to conceive themselves differently from the requirements of subjectification. I will approach the Roma Holocaust in Hungary by looking at forms of resistance which took shape and aimed to challenge every abuse of power. My purpose is to suggest another path, to read the Holocaust through subordinate groups’ prolonged effort to resist. I will take women’s experiences, and using them as resources for social analysis guided by the assumption that relations of domination are in a dialectical relationship with relations of resistance and are able to contest the aim of political authorities to preserve humanity as well as establish collectivities in atomized formations. I assume that individuals have the consciousness, capacity and intent to question the existing social order, and to offer other discursive strategies which enable them to promote their vision of world and thereby survive. If the individual is trying to thwart, defy, subvert the aims of an oppressor, he or she is engaged in resistance. |
| Supervisor | Anna Loutfi |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/szasz_anna.pdf |
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