Romani Chronicles of COVID-19 -

Romani Chronicles of COVID-19

Testimonies of Harm and Resilience
Buch | Softcover
314 Seiten
2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-893-5 (ISBN)
44,10 inkl. MwSt
A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.



The contributors reveal how the pandemic has exacerbated Romani disenfranchisement and document the resilience and creativity with which Romanies have responded to the crisis. Deploying innovative textual formats, and including poignant personal reflections, memoirs, scholarly analyses, and diary excerpts, the volume provides a roadmap for collaboration and dialogue at a time of global emergency.



This is the most significant chronicle of Romani stories about the COVID crisis ever assembled.



From the Introduction:

The contributions include memoirs, opinion essays, transcriptions of conversations or interviews, ethnographic analyses, and a compelling short story by Romani writer Iveta Kokyová, as well as pieces that stride the boundaries between one or more of these genres, or that fit into none.

Paloma Gay y Blasco teaches social anthropology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She has authored books and articles on ethnographic methods, collaborative anthropology, and Romani issues including, with Liria Hernández, Writing Friendship: A Reciprocal Ethnography (Palgrave MacMillan,2020).

Foreword: Words and Waves

Iliana Sarafian



Introduction: Chronicles of a Tragedy Foretold

Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta



Part I: Spanish Chronicles



Chapter 1. Introduction to the Spanish Chronicles: From Ordinary Crisis to Pandemic Emergency

Paloma Gay y Blasco



Chapter 2. Gitana Intercultural Mediators in the Space between Despair and Hope

Dulce Flores Torres, Pilar García Bizárraga, Estrella Iglesias Pérez, Francisca Mayoral Silva, Manuela Mayoral Silva, Fernanda Montaño García and Paloma Gay



Chapter 3. “Who Cares…? Hunger Will Kill Us If the Virus Does Not”: The COVID-19 Pandemic in an Informal Settlement in Madrid

Beatriz Aragón Martín



Chapter 4. Researching and Mitigating the Impact of Lockdown on Gitano Families in Spain: an NGO Worker Speaks

María Félix Rodriguez Camacho



Chapter 5. Illness and Death Are So Much Worse When You Are Alone

Liria Hernández



Chapter 6. “COVID-19 Is a Trial from God”: Gitanos, Pentecostal Imaginaries, and Compliance

Antonio Montañés Jiménez with Gory Carmona



Part II: Brazilian Chronicles



Chapter 7. Introduction to the Brazilian Chronicles: How Systemic Racism and Government Neglect Led to Increased Harm Suffered by Vulnerable Groups

Juliana Miranda Soares Campos, Martin Fotta, Gabriela Marques Gonçalves and Aline Miklos



Chapter 8. “Get out of Here!”: Discrimination and Prejudice against Ciganos in the Context of the Pandemic

Igor Shimura



Chapter 9. “Everything Is on Hold”: The Pandemic and the Ciganos in Minas Gerais

Valdinalva Barbosa dos Santos Caldas and Juliana Miranda Soares Campos



Chapter 10. The Creation of the #Orgulhoromani Collective Amid the Pandemic

Gabriela Marques Gonçalves, Aluízio de Azevedo Silva Júnior, and Aline Miklos



Chapter 11. Interlacing Black and Romani Experiences during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Paraíba, Northeast Brazil: A Personal Reflection

Edilma do Nascimento Souza



Chapter 12. Romanies in Brazil and the Escalation of Necropolitics during the Pandemic

Aluízio de Azevedo Silva Júnior



Part III: Slovak Chronicles



Chapter 13. Introduction to the Slovak Chronicles: Indifference, Securitization, and Antigypsyism

Andrej Belák and Tomáš Hrustič



Chapter 14. Quarantine, Segregation, and Resistance: The Case of Žehra

Alžbeta ‘Haľka’ Mižigárová



Chapter 15. Coffee and Cigarettes in State Quarantine: Stuck on the Way Home

Albín Peter and Tomáš Hrustič



Chapter 16. “In Difficult Times We Should Stick Together”: Roma Self-Help Initiatives and Awareness Raising Activities as an Immediate Reaction to Corona Virus Spread Early in March 2020

Tomáš Hrustič



Chapter 17. The Hoaxes and Incorrect Information Related to COVID-19 Showed a Lack of Trust and Knowledge between the Majority and the Roma

Jurina Rusnáková and Zuzana Kumanová



Chapter 18. Oh, My Antiracist Friends, Where Are You? A Health Expert’s Diary of Hopes and Disappointments Regarding Pandemic Prevention and Control across Segregated Roma Enclaves

Andrej Belák



Part IV: Polish Chronicles



Chapter 19. Introduction to the Polish Chronicles: Digital Kinning and Care

Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Ignacy Jóźwiak, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Sonia Styrkacz, and Monika Szewczyk



Chapter 20. Pandemic (Im)mobilities of Polish Roma

Sonia Styrkacz, Michał P. Garapich, and Kamila Fiałkowska



Chapter 21. The Internet and Transnational Polish Roma Families in the Time of Pandemic

Monika Szewczyk, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, and Ignacy Jóźwiak



Part V: Czech Chronicles



Chapter 22. Introduction to the Czech Chronicles: Of Loss and Silence

Yasar Abu Ghosh



Chapter 23. The Impact of the Pandemic on Activism and the Activist: Conversations with Jozef Miker

Yasar Abu Ghosh



Chapter 24. Denial of Danger: COVID-19, Disinformation, and When to Burst Our Bubbles

Gwendolyn Albert



Chapter 25. Locked Down in Our Own Personal Quarantine: How Nothing Can Be Taken for Granted

Iveta Kokyová



Concluding Reflections

Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Directions in Romani Studies
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80073-893-5 / 1800738935
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-893-5 / 9781800738935
Zustand Neuware
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