Roma Activism Reimagining Power and Knowledge

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sam Beck (Editor), Ana Ivasiuc (Editor), Beck Sam (Editor)
• Authors: Sam Ivasiuc Beck
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.09.2018
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9781785339486
• ISBN: 978-1-78533-948-6
• Pages: 250
• Series: Romani Studies > 01; Romani Studies > 01; New Directions in Romani Studies
• Subjects: Ethnic Studies, History, Politics, Eastern Europe, Conflict Studies, Social Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, International Relations, Romania, Reflexivity, Activism, Ethnography, Yugoslavia, Ethnic groups, Sociology & anthropology, Research Methods, Sociology and anthropology, academia, academic studies, European Studies, Race Relations, Social activism, policy development, Human Condition, Engaging, cultural anthropology;social science;critical romani studies;racial studies;ethnic studies;ethnography;ethnic groups;social activism;critical debates;academic studies;race relations;policy development;international relations;eastern europe;conflict s, government and governing, Racial Studies, critical debates, critical romani studies