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Roma Activism Reimagining Power and Knowledge

ROMANI STUDIES

Edited by Sam Beck, Cornell University

In the course of the twenty-first century, Europe has become aware that the Roma are its largest minority, with an estimated population of eleven million people. As a result, Romani Studies has emerged as an interdisciplinary field that offers perspectives derived from the humanities and social sciences in the context of state and transnational institutions. One of its aims is to remove the stigma surrounding Roma scholarship, to engage with the controversies regarding Roma identity and, in this way, counter anti-Roma racism.

Volume 1

ROMA ACTIVISM: REIMAGINING POWER AND KNOWLEDGE

Edited by Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc

ROMA ACTIVISM

Reimagining Power and Knowledge

Edited by Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc

First published in 2018 by

Berghahn Books

www.berghahnbooks.com

First paperback edition published in 2020

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Beck, Sam, editor of compilation. | Ivasiuc, Ana, editor of compilation.

Title: Roma Activism: Reimagining Power and Knowledge / edited by Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc.

Description: First edition. | New York: Berghahn Books, 2018 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018015940 (print) | LCCN 2018027671 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785339493 (eBook) | ISBN 9781785339486 (hardback: alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Romanies—Politics and government. | Romanies—Social conditions.

Classification: LCC DX145 (ebook) | LCC DX145 .R587 2018 (print) | DDC 305.8914/97—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015940

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78533-948-6 hardback

ISBN 978-1-78920-847-4 paperback

ISBN 978-1-78533-949-3 ebook

We dedicate this volume to Nicolae Gheorghe, the work he accomplished, and all the people he inspired to shape a positive Roma identity and to carry on advancing their emancipation.

FIGURE 0.1. Nicolae Gheorghe interviewing a Romungro in 1979. Photo by Sam Beck.

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 Nongovernmentalism: Toward 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