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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.
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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 Chiri¿oiu 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
About the author
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 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.
