Roma Activism (eBook)

Sam Beck is the former director of the New York City Urban Semester Program, and the current director of the Practicing Medicine Program at the College of Human Ecology of Cornell University. He has carried out fieldwork in Iran, Yugoslavia, Romania, Austria, Germany and the United States. With Carl Maida, he edited Toward Engaged Anthropology (2013) and Public Anthropology in a Borderless World (2015).

Ana Ivasiuc is an anthropologist affiliated with the Giessen Centre for the Study of Culture and the Centre for Conflict Studies at the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany. Through her past activity as a research coordinator within a Romani NGO in Romania, she has conducted research at the confluence between Romani activism and academia. She is the winner of the 2017 Herder–Council for European Studies Fellowship.

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Preface
Sam Beck

Introduction: Renewing Research and Romani Activism
Ana Ivasiuc

PART I: RENEWING METHODS, RENEWING SITES

Chapter 1. Neoliberalism and the Spirit of Non-Governmentalism: Towards an Anthroposociology of Roma-Related Engagement and Activism
Huub van Baar

Chapter 2. Emotions and Procedures: Contradictions of Early Romani Activism in a Postconflict Intervention
Ana Chirițoiu

Chapter 3. Encounters at the Margins: Activism and Research in Romani Studies in Postsocialist Romania
László Fosztó

PART II: RENEWING EPISTEMOLOGIES

Chapter 4. Paradigm Shift and Romani Studies: Research “on” or “for” and “with” the Roma    
Andrew Ryder

Chapter 5. Transgressing Borders: Challenging Racist and Sexist Epistemology
Angéla Kóczé

Chapter 6. Alter-Narratives: Seeing Ordinary Agency
Ana Ivasiuc

PART III: RENEWING ACTIVISMS

Chapter 7. Policy Input on the Front Line: Dilemmas of the Ethical Academic
Margaret Greenfields

Chapter 8. Between Global Solidarity and National Belonging: The Politics of Inclusion for Romanlar in Turkey
Danielle V. Schoon

Chapter 9. “Be Young, Be Roma”: Modern Roma Youth Activism in the Current Panorama of Romani Affairs
Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka

Index