Roma Activism

Reimagining Power and Knowledge

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-847-4 (ISBN)

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Exploring contemporary debates and developments and gathering together contributors from activism, academia, and the worlds of policy and development, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in in Roma-related research and forms of activism, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies.

Exploring contemporary debates and developments in Roma-related research and forms of activism, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in these fields, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies. The contributors gathered here – whose professional trajectories often lie at the confluence between activism, academia, and policy or development interventions – are exceptionally well placed to reflect on mainstream practices in all these fields, and, from their particular positions, envision a reimagining of these practices.

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).

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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

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Romani Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-847-5 / 1789208475
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-847-4 / 9781789208474
Zustand	Neuware