Roma Activism

Reimagining Power and Knowledge
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-948-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Romani Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beck, Sam

Ivasiuc, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

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 Anthropo-Sociology of Roma-Related Engagement and Activism

Huub van Baar

Chapter 2. Emotions and Procedures: Contradictions of Early Romani Activism in a Post-Conflict Intervention

Ana Chiritoiu

Chapter 3. Encounters at the Margins: Activism and Research in Romani Studies in Post-Socialist 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

Über Autor(innen)

Ivasiuc, Ana
Ana Ivasiuc is an anthropologist affiliated with 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.

Beck, Sam
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).

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).