CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Pickette, Jana Viktoria |
|---|---|
| Title | Madness on the Margins: Biopolitics and Roma School Segregation in the case Horvath and Kiss v. Hungary |
| Summary | In this thesis, I explore the biopolitics of disproportionately segregating Roma children into special education schools in Hungary via the science of mental testing as a strategy of nation building to illustrate how hegemonic forces construct, maintain, and manage deviant identities within their sphere of influence. I utilize the 2013 court case Horváth and Kiss v. Hungary at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in which two Roma contest their state-assigned identity as mentally disabled to demonstrate the structural dynamic behind streaming specific identities into segregated spaces. I argue that the court case shows the systematic diagnosis and segregation of Roma children into remedial schools as part of the normalizing project of the state, reflecting the biopolitics dynamic of constructing margins in order to define and reaffirm normative identities in a dialectical fashion. |
| Supervisor | Lafferton, Emese |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/pickette_jana.pdf |
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