Giovanni Picker. 2017. Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe. London: Routledge.

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Researching the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations: complicity, oppression and resistance

This paper draws on the experience of two Romani and three non-Romani scholars in knowledge production on the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations. Together, we explore how we might better account for, and work against, the complex web of dynamic oppressions embedded within processes of academic knowledge production. Our aim is to encourage careful scrutiny through which sociologists of health and illness might better recognise our own complicity with oppression and identify concrete actions towards transforming our research practices. Drawing on a well-known domains of racism typology (Annual Review of Public Health, 40, 2019, 105), we use examples from our own work to illustrate three interconnected domains of oppression in which we have found ourselves entangled (structural, cultural and interpersonal). A new conceptual framework is proposed as an aid to understanding the spectrum of different “types” of complicity (voluntary–involuntary, conscious–unconscious) that one might reproduce across all three domains. We conclude by exploring how sociologists of health and illness might promote a more actively anti-racist research agenda, identifying and challenging subtle, hidden and embedded negative ideologies and practices as well as more obviously oppressive ones. We hope these reflections will help revitalise important conversations

Introducing the New Journal Critical Romani Studies

The Introduction presents the origins of the new journal "Critical Romani Studies". It discusses why the editors founded a new journal. Finally, the paper presents the main features of the new journal

Roma Politika Intézményesülése

A kutatas egységesen tekinti át a döntésben részt vevő roma szereplők személyes meghatározottságának és törekvéseinek mélyebb beágyazottságát, s az ezekkel összefüggő mozgatórugóikat: családi hátterüket, társadalmi szerepük tágabb összefüggéseibe ágyazot

Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between critical whiteness and epistemic injustice: Edited by Victoria Shmidt and Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, London and New York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021, (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-47198-9

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The Roma in Contemporary Europe: Struggling for Identity at a Time of Proliferating Identity Politics

This chapter takes stock of how diverse debates about Roma identity have developed since the fall of communism. The chapter begins with an extensive discussion of three general dimensions of identity that are related to the denial of racially motivated violence against Roma, to radical practices of marginalization and exclusion and to the interconnection of outside identification and self-representation. The chapter’s second half discusses identity issues more specifically in the context of identity politics and critiques thereof. Moreover, it explains how the contributions to the book articulate identity beyond the binary of essentialism versus constructivism that is still dominant in Roma-related scholarship

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The Challenge of Recognition, Redistribution and Representation of Roma in Contemporary Europe

This concluding chapter of the book recapitulates the findings of the individual contributions from the perspective of Nancy Fraser’s reflection on the reconceptualization of justice in post-1989 Europe. We follow her observation that, under postsocialist conditions, the increased societal focus on identity politics and recognitive dimensions of minority-related affairs has problematically coincided with a truncated politics of redistribution. However, rather than merely striving for a more equal and just society through balancing the recognitive and redistributive dimensions, in our reflection on the situation of Roma, we follow Fraser’s suggestion that justice should be achieved through a thorough reconsideration of the dimension of representation, understood as the ability to re-problematize disputes about justice