CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Szenyi, Zoltan Gabor |
|---|---|
| Title | WHEN BLOOD TIES CALL YOU IDENTITY BUILDING STRATEGIES, LIFE STORY NARRATIVES IN A ROMANI DANCE GROUP |
| Summary | This paper analyses the identity building strategies used to secure the ethnic, racial, gender and class identities of a group of individuals, who participated in a Romani dance group in Budapest. The major focus of this research is on the identity forming patterns through performed sexuality and the struggle individuals encountered while defining themselves in the race, gender and class triangle. Through a theoretical perspective rooted in the narrative network approach, ethnographies of wannabes and cultural theory I deconstruct the life stories of individuals and offer explanations for the patterns of behaviour they followed to locate themselves both in the Romani and the non-Romani communities of Budapest. I conclude by conceptualizing this phenomenon as an example of urban wannabeism, an identity forming strategy that can provide a solution to the dilemma of perceived cultural vacuum and invisibility of whiteness, being more apparent in the phase of post-socialist transformations when several renegotiation processes of ethnic group definitions and belongings took place. |
| Supervisor | Vlad Naumescu |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/szenyi_zoltan.pdf |
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