Waiting for the state : Sociopolitical identities of persons with hemophilia in Nepal

• Main Author: Schedin, Henrik
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Kulturantropologiska avdelningen 2012
• Subjects: Biological citizenship; disability studies; hemophilia; structural subject-making; Nepal; agency; gender; human rights.
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-175718

A biological citizenship can be important to gain human rights. This is evident for the disability movement in Nepal, which recently have gained a lot of ground in their struggle for their rights. The NGO Nepal Hemophilia Society (NHS) is a part of this movement and has also profited from this progress. However hemophilia is disease that mostly transmitted to males, which means that the female members of NHS is not affected medically by the disease but socially to a high degree. This thesis aims to explore how the female members handle this situation and find an agency in their vulnerable position.