CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Szamosi, Barna |
|---|---|
| Title | Genetic Studies of Romani Populations in Hungary: An Intersectional Analysis |
| Summary | This thesis focuses on the conceptualization of Roma ethnicity in the works of human geneticists. In my analysis I apply the methods of intersectionality and I use expert interviews to collect data. The collected material will be analyzed from a non-Romani feminist constructivist perspective. In the research of human geneticists the categories of diseases are at the centre and they link the Roma category systematically to genetic disorders. I argue however that this connection stabilizes the Roma category on a molecular biological level. This aspect fails to take into consideration the performative character of social categories. Geneticists by attaching the Roma category to a biological marker homogenize the culturally fragmented and diverse gypsy ethnicities and they reconstruct the gypsies’ social structures along the lines of the traditional gender hierarchies. |
| Supervisor | Sandor, Judit; Peto, Andrea |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/szamosi_barna.pdf |
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