Roma Activism

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 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.

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceSam BeckIntroduction: Renewing Research and Romani ActivismAna IvasiucPART I: RENEWING METHODS, RENEWING SITESChapter 1. Neoliberalism and the Spirit of Non-Governmentalism: Towards an Anthroposociology of Roma-Related Engagement and ActivismHuub van BaarChapter 2. Emotions and Procedures: Contradictions of Early Romani Activism in a Postconflict InterventionAna ChirițoiuChapter 3. Encounters at the Margins: Activism and Research in Romani Studies in Postsocialist RomaniaLászló FosztóPART II: RENEWING EPISTEMOLOGIESChapter 4. Paradigm Shift and Romani Studies: Research “on” or “for” and “with” the Roma Andrew RyderChapter 5. Transgressing Borders: Challenging Racist and Sexist EpistemologyAngéla KóczéChapter 6. Alter-Narratives: Seeing Ordinary AgencyAna IvasiucPART III: RENEWING ACTIVISMSChapter 7. Policy Input on the Front Line: Dilemmas of the Ethical AcademicMargaret GreenfieldsChapter 8. Between Global Solidarity and National Belonging: The Politics of Inclusion for Romanlar in TurkeyDanielle V. SchoonChapter 9. “Be Young, Be Roma”: Modern Roma Youth Activism in the Current Panorama of Romani AffairsAnna Mirga-KruszelnickaIndex

“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