Fanni Puskas is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Her research explores how the ongoing crisis of care in semi-peripheral contexts produces new forms of subjectivities, particularly low support needs neurodivergent people in Hungary. Through ethnographic fieldwork, she examines how the unmaking of the "middle class" and the normalization of precarity reshape the conditions under which people are diagnosed, excluded, or left to care for themselves and others in the absence of institutional support.
Her work draws on critical disability studies, political economy, and postsocialist anthropology to trace how structural transformation reconfigures experiences of personhood, dependency, and dignity. She is also engaged with questions of racialisation, Romani studies, and critical pedagogy and brings these perspectives into conversation with her core research interests.