Country of residence

Hungary

Brief introduction

PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University

Education

MA, Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2007, Central European University

Academic profile

Currently I’m writing up my doctoral dissertation that is based upon a long term fieldwork in poor neighbourhood of Bucharest with a mixed Roma and non-Roma Romanian population. The core of the dissertation is an ethnographic study of street life, informality and exchange amongst the inhabitants of this impoverished setting. One of the aims of the thesis is to understand the mechanisms of territorial stigmatization in a postsocialist urban context. My previous research project was focusing on the cultural aspects of Roma mobilization, identity politics and musical practices of Roma performers in the emerging ‘world music’ scene of Budapest.

Publications

• The Civilized, the Vagabond, the Player and the Fool. Notes on fieldwork in a Bucharest Neighborhood. In Studia Sociologia LVI/1. 2011.
• Clejani Gypsies on the Global Market. Taraf de Haidouks and the Label of Racism in the World Music Discourse. In Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review 2008.
• Why Ethnicity? Everyday Nationalism in a Transylvanian Town. On Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea. Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town. In East Central Europe 36. 2009 (with Florin Poenaru)

Keywords

urban marginality, poverty, ethnicity, public culture, ethnographic research practice

Contact

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