CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Fotic, Jelisaveta |
|---|---|
| Title | Stigma, Self-stigma and Resistance: Life Stories of people with Type 1 diabetes in Belgrade |
| Summary | The central topic of this thesis is the stigmatization and resistance to it in the context of a chronic health condition. It focuses on experiences of people living with Type 1 diabetes in Belgrade, more accurately, activists of Plavi krug, through analyzing whether and how they were stigmatized, whether stigma led to self-stigma, and how they resisted it. More specifically, the thesis examines the factors and fields of life where stigma was most experienced, gender roles in relation to stigma, role of community-support in creating resistance to stigma, and activists relation to the concept of neoliberal entrepreneurial subjects. Methodologically, answers are derived through life-story interviews and autoethnography. Interviewees discussed stigma in relation to educational attainment, personal relationships and employment. Interviewees’ answers were mainly interpreted through the prism of Goffman’s and Link and Phelan’s theory of stigma, while the analysis was also informed by Parsons’ ‘sick role’, Foucault’s notion of ‘docile body’, Rose’s view of neoliberal entrepreneurial subjects, Hughson’s theory of gender roles in Serbia and Shih’s models of resistance to stigma. The thesis ultimately attempts to outline the mechanisms interviewees used in resisting stigma since the moment of their diagnoses until present day. By tracing the paths of their resistance, which were observed in relation to the adoption of either coping or empowerment model of resistance, the thesis managed to categorize interviewees into six different types of resistors, highlighting above all the importance of community support in the development of resistance to stigma. |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis; Fodor, Eva; |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/fotic_jelisaveta.pdf |
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