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Roma Activism: Reimagining Power and Knowledge [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 242 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, Bibliography; Index; 2 Illustrations
  • Sari: New Directions in Romani Studies
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Aug-2018
  • Kirjastus: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN-10: 1785339486
  • ISBN-13: 9781785339486
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 242 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, Bibliography; Index; 2 Illustrations
  • Sari: New Directions in Romani Studies
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Aug-2018
  • Kirjastus: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN-10: 1785339486
  • ISBN-13: 9781785339486
Teised raamatud teemal:
"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."--Provided by publisher.

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.



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.

Arvustused

The text as a whole, in summary, is extremely stimulating and interesting. The use of scholarly literatures outside the somewhat narrow field of Romani Studies makes the book suitable also for those interested in many other subaltern groups, and in the more general themes of action research. Social Movement Studies





This edited volume brings together authors, whose different perspectives on engaging with Romani Studies through activism, academic study and policy development, bring new insights and provocations. The book has been published at a very important juncture in the evolution of Romani Studies and the reflections of the authors are very timely and importantgood work is being done to renew Romani Studies and ensure that the discipline thrives in a more critical and engaged environment. Ethnic and Racial Studies





Overall, Roma Activism does what the best academic work should do: it engages the reader from start to finish while challenging the binaries too often accepted as the status quo. The cohesion among the authors of this volume builds a strong case for the future of Romani Studies and Romani activism. Critical Romani Studies





The book offers meaningful insights and opens newmethodological and epistemological pathways, especially with regard to the key issue of the agency of Roma communities, to be understood not as passive subjects at the mercy of external institutions and non-governmental organizations, but as independent actors able to act on the political scene. Anuac. Journal of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology





This volume offers a wide array of perspectives for those wishing to better understand critical debates within Romani studies and Roma/pro-Roma activism. It will in particular be a welcome contribution for those already invested in these spheres and wishing for in-depth analyses of shifts and trends in knowledge production and mobilisation. Social Anthropology/anthropologie sociale

List of Illustrations

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
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 Chirioiu



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
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).