CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Salkic, Sanja |
|---|---|
| Title | Personal Experiences of Young Self-Identified LGBTQ Individuals with Homophobia in Croatian School Settings |
| Summary | Addressing the dearth of research into the connections bewteen sexuality and schooling in the context of the Republic of Croatia and working with the theoretical notions of “homophobia”, “heterosexism” and “heteron ormativity 1d; as well as M. Foucault’s theoretizations of discourse and power, it is the goal of this work to explore the workings of homophobia in the Croatian secondary school settings by means of investigating personal schooling experiences of young self-identified LGBTQ individuals. The time frame for my investigation is determined by my interest to focus on the more recent historical period (1990 onwards) and will encompass the time period between 1997 and 2007. With a view of bridging the personal and the contextual, my analysis will be moving between the wider socio-political and cultural context of the Republic of Croatia within the time period I am focusing on, the school as the site of various discursive and organizational practices forming the students’ gendered and sexual subjectivities in particular ways, as well as the way these wider processes were experienced by the students on a personal level. Through the analysis of the personal interviews I will show the schooling discourses, both on the level of the official curriculum, as well as on the level of informal students’ peer cultures to work in heteronormative ways, exposing at the same time the school as a complex site in which diverse and disparate discourses simultaneously play out and compete. |
| Supervisor | Renkin, Hadley Zaun |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/salkic_sanja.pdf |
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