Queer Roma

Queer Roma

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  • Author: Lucie Fremlova
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000486567
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 150

This book offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, thus providing rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of queer Roma, which are very diverse regionally and otherwise, pose a fundamental challenge to one-dimensional, negative misrepresentations of Roma as homophobic and antithetical to European and Western modernity. The book platforms Romani agency and voices in an original and novel way. This enables the reader to feel the individuals behind the data, which detail stories of rejection by Romani families and communities, and non-Romani communities; and unfamiliar, ground-breaking stories of acceptance by Romani families and communities. Combining intersectionality with queer theory innovatively and applying it to Romani Studies, the author supports her arguments with data illustrating how the identities of queer Roma are shaped by antigypsyism and its intersections with homophobia and transphobia. Thanks to its theoretical and empirical content, and its location within a book series on LGBTIQ lives that appeals to an international audience, this authoritative book will appeal to a wide range of readers. It will a be useful resource for libraries, community and social service workers, third-sector Romani and LGBTIQ organisations, activists and policymakers; an invaluable source of information for scholars, teachers and students of bigger modules in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses in a cross section of academic disciplines and subject areas. These include, but are not limited to, LGBTIQ/Queer Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Romani Studies; Sociology; Anthropology; Human Geography; Area Studies; Cultural Studies; Social Movement Studies; Media Studies; Psychology; Heath Science; Social Science; Political Science.


Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018

Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018

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  • Author: Ramona Dima
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031388496
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 219

This book is an in depth, extensive study of Romanian queer cultural products. It brings an essential contribution to the literature on Central and South Eastern European gender studies, post-communism studies, media, and cultural studies, as well as transnational queer studies. The book looks at Romanian queer culture ”from inside”, and from the acknowledgment that the research process is guided by the sensitivity of the approached topics, by the lack of archival footprints, and by a solid dose of media archaeology, especially when looking at the beginning of Romanian LGBT+ activism in the 90s. The book starts from contemporary Romanian cultural products that are focusing on queer topics and/or produced by queer creators. It looks back at the memories of seminal queer and trans activists in extensive interviews conducted for this volume, and fragmented literary and media sources that cover the most part of the 20th century. About the translation This book has been translated from Romanian by Andreea Moise. The Introduction and Chapter 6 were translated by Maria Cohut.


European Others

European Others

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  • Author: Fatima El-Tayeb
  • Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN: 1452932921
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 303

Considers the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from below


Gypsy Feminism

Gypsy Feminism

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  • Author: Laura Corradi
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351403842
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

Clumsy stereotypes of the Romani and Travellers communities abound, not only culturally in programmes such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, but also amongst educators, social workers, administrators and the medical profession. Gypsy cultures are invariably presented as ruled by tradition and machismo. Women are presented as helpless victims, especially when it comes to gendered forms of violence. The reality, however, is much more complicated. In Gypsy Feminism, Laura Corradi demonstrates how Romaphobia – racist and anti-Gypsy rhetoric and prejudice, pervading every level of society – has led to a situation where Romani communities face multiple discrimination. In this context, the empowerment of women and girls becomes still more difficult: until recently, for example, women have largely remained silent about domestic violence in order to protect their communities, which are already under attack. Examining feminist research and action within Romani communities, Corradi demonstrates the importance of an intersectional approach in order to make visible the combination of racism and sexism that Gypsy women face every day. This concise and authoritative book will appeal to scholars and students in the areas of Sociology, Cultural Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology, as well as Politics, Media Studies, Social Policy, and Social Work. It is also an invaluable resource for activists, community and social service workers, and policymakers.


Gypsies, Roma and Travellers

Gypsies, Roma and Travellers

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  • Author: Declan Henry
  • Publisher: Critical Publishing
  • ISBN: 1915080053
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 293

Essential reading for those who want to develop greater knowledge and awareness of the history, culture and lifestyles of GRT people. There are many misconceptions about the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the UK and Ireland. Little is understood of their culture and they are often marginalised by society. This book dispels many of the myths and gives a compassionate and empathetic view of the daily struggles they face including discrimination, racism and poverty. It also reviews criticisms directed at them and determines whether these are justified. Services are analysed to establish what works and what is weak. Packed with expert opinions from professionals working in the field and case studies and vignettes, garnered from personal interviews by the author with GRT people. Drawing from a wide range of perspectives from both inside and outside the respective communities, this book provides readers with all the key elements required to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of these remarkable communities and their cultures.


Queer Technologies

Queer Technologies

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  • Author: Katherine Sender
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1351838814
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 153

Queer Technologies: Affordances, Affect, Ambivalence presents new scholarship that addresses queer media and practices across a wide range of media, including television, music, zines, video games, mobile applications, and online spaces. Contributors engage with critical contemporary concepts such as counterpublics, affect, temporality, non-binary practices, queer technique, and transmediation to productively explore intersections among communication and media studies and cutting-edge queer and transgender theory. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication.


Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research

Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research

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  • Author: Martin Fotta
  • Publisher: Policy Press
  • ISBN: 1529231868
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited volume discusses the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers are currently facing whilst attempting to document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities throughout Europe.


Specters of Liberation

Specters of Liberation

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  • Author: Martin J. Beck Matuštík
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN: 143841224X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 386

Specters of Liberation argues that dissent against the New World Order is possible through a collaboration of critical postmodern social theory and existential philosophy. It integrates those Western, Eastern European, and postcolonial approaches to democratic theory that provide the best alternatives to today's nationalist and racial conflicts and offer the best prospects for a free world. Rigorously argued and written in an impassioned voice, it examines multidimensional specters of liberation and resources for democratic change after 1989. Inspired by the persistence of the Marcusean Great Refusal, Matustik takes up a wide variety of issues, ranging from the encounter between critical social theory and existential philosophy found in the works of Herbert Marcuse to the contributions of Czech existential phenomenology to democratic theory, with attention to the works of Havel.


Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe

Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe

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  • Author: Ov Cristian Norocel
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030416941
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and hope are used in local, national and transnational settings, in and outside conventional forms of doing politics. It expands on polarized societal processes and external events relevant for the transformation of European welfare systems and the reproduction of national identities today. It evidences the importance of gender in the narrative use of the master frames of nostalgia and hope, either as an ideological tool for right-wing populist and extreme right retrogressive mobilization or as an essential element of progressive intersectional politics of hope. It uses both comparative and single case studies to address different perspectives, and by means of various methodological approaches, the manner in which the master frames of nostalgia and hope are articulated in the politics of culture, welfare, and migration. The book is organized around three thematic sections whereby the first section deals with right-wing populist party politics across Europe, the second section deals with an articulation of politics beyond party politics by means of retrogressive mobilization, and the third and last section deals with emancipatory initiatives beyond party politics as well.


The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe

The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe

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  • Author: Huub van Baar
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 178920643X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 366

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of increasing anti-migrant and anti-Roma sentiment, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe. From backgrounds ranging from political theory, postcolonial, cultural and gender studies to art history, feminist critique and anthropology, the contributors reflect on the extent to which a politics of identity regarding historically disadvantaged, racialized minorities such as the Roma can still be legitimately articulated.