CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Heljic, Arman |
|---|---|
| Title | Articulations and Negotiations of Roma Msculinities: an Intersectional Analysis of Ethnicity, Sexuality, Gender and Class at the Roma Access Programs |
| Summary | The processes of articulations and negotiations of ethnicity on the intersections with sexuality, gender and class have been largely overseen in the field of academic knowledge production, especially in the cases of sexual minorities within the Romani communities in Central and Eastern Europe. My research project focuses on those intersections within the community of Roma students at the Roma Access Programs, at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. My specific interest has been to investigate how Gay, Bisexual and sexually non-identifying Roma men articulate and negotiate their ethnicity, sexuality, masculinity and class in interactions within a system where heterosexuality is not only the hegemonic sexuality, but also the organizing principle of hegemonic formations of Roma ethnicity, among the group of students at the Roma Access Programs. In my thesis I question the processes of formation and articulation of those multiple identities by using interdisciplinary approach grounded in intersectionality as a methodology, semi-structured interviews and queer methods such as self-ethnography in order to investigate the material consequences of queer narratives of lived experiences through the stories of students of Roma Access Programs. I propose that the very concept of ‘hegemony’ should be conceptualized as one that is structured by multiplicity, which is the major contribution of my project to the scholarship on masculinity studies. The research shows how hegemony is established and maintained among the students based on multiple levels of exclusions and inclusions in the processes of articulation and negotiation ethnicity, sexuality, masculinity and class. The major contribution that I make in the field of Romani studies is that I offer a new approach to understandings of identity formations within a complex field of power relations among a group of heterosexual, gay, bisexual and men who engage in same-sex practices, within the Roma Access Programs. I believe that literature very little, if any literature is available on this topic in the English language. |
| Supervisor | Erzsébet Barát |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/heljic_arman.pdf |
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