CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Tusheva, Daria |
|---|---|
| Title | Place of discrimination in the public/private division: case of ethnic discrimination on the present-day rental market in Russia |
| Summary | Ethnic discrimination on the rental market is a well-studied area, however, not much feminist research has been done there. In my work I investigate how the recent case of the introduction of the anti-discriminatory policy by CIAN, one of the online rental housing marketplaces in Russia, highlights the local modern political specifics of the process of discrimination. More specifically, I argue that discrimination in Russia is understood as a personal right. Based on the quantitative data analysis augmented by the meaning condensation I show the major discourses related to discrimination that constituted this response. In addition to that I provide justifications for considering discrimination to be a private personal right, and offer a classification of topics discussed in the comments to show how they refer to the decision making process of discrimination. With the data gathered, I not only substantiate my argument about discrimination being located in the private domain, but also provide statistical data on the different forms of discrimination on the realty market in general: ethnic, gender-based and other types prevalent on the rental market in Russia. This analysis illustrates that the public/private distinction is not fixed and raises new questions on the position of discrimination within this dichotomy of the public and the private in Russia. My research adds to the scope of a feminist literature on the private/public distinction and continues a tradition of the critical inquiries on the political theory concepts. This study sheds light on the constructivist character of the public/private division and stresses that it is limited by the historical, political, and cultural context. My research, therefore, helps to rethink the concept of the public/private division and reposition it as a piece of knowledge that needs to be approached critically when using it in a non-Western context. In addition to that, my research findings add a rare data to scope of the research on the ethnic discrimination on the rental market in Russia. |
| Supervisor | Éva Fodor |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/tusheva_daria.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University