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International Roma Day

International Roma Day (8 April) recognizes the history and celebrates the cultures, traditions, and contributions of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveler communities.

In commemoration of this day, we are delighted to spotlight our growing Romani Studies series, New Directions in Romani Studies. This series aims to remove the stigma surrounding Roma scholarship, to engage with the controversies regarding Roma identity and, in this way, counter anti-Roma racism. Scroll down for new and featured titles in this important series, as well as related titles on Roma Studies.


Romani Studies

TEXTURES OF BELONGING
Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma
Andreea Racleş

The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as “non-belonging others.” Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging at the everyday level. Inspired by material culture, sensorial anthropology, and human geography approaches, this book uses ethnographic research to examine the role of domestic material forms and their sensorial qualities in nurturing connections with people and places that transcend socio-political boundaries.

THE ROMA AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR IDENTITYIN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
Edited by Huub van Baar and Angéla Kóczé

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.

INWARD LOOKING
The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective
Aleksandar G. Marinov

At present, Roma are an integral part of Europe, though they face structural and social inequalities and different forms of exclusion and discrimination. Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ through the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants.It also seeks to understand the relationships between the Romani groups in Europe, due to their increased travel and convergence, and predict the effects of migration on (new) Romani consciousness. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from three towns in Bulgaria.

Available in Paperback
ROMA ACTIVISM
Reimagining Power and Knowledge
Edited by Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc

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

NEW DIRECTIONS IN ROMANI STUDIES SERIES
Editors: Huub van Baar, Leuven University
Angéla Kóczé, Central European 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 11 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.

Related Titles

STAGING CITIZENSHIP
Roma, Performance and Belongingin EU Romania
Ioana Szeman
Vol. 11, Dance and Performance Studies
Read Introduction

THE ROMANI MOVEMENT
Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe
Peter Vermeersch
Vol. 4, Ethnopolitics
Read Introduction

GYPSY ECONOMY
Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
Edited by Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, and Martin Fotta
Vol. 3, The Human Economy
Read Introduction

THE NAZI GENOCIDE OF THE ROMA
Reassessmentand Commemoration
Edited by AntonWeiss-Wendt
Vol. 17, War and Genocide

Featured Articles from Berghahn Journals

Open Access Articles

FOCAAL
The stable stranger: Constructing “the Roma” within the European neoliberal culture complex
Marianne Blom Brodersen and Emil André Røyrvik (Vol. 2022, Issue 92)

Austrian “Gypsies” in the Italian archives: Historical ethnography on multiple border crossings at the beginning of the twentieth century
Paola Trevisan (Vol. 2020, Issue 87)

Free Access until April 17, 2022

ANTHROPOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN CULTURES
Emplacing Smells: Spatialities and Materialities of ‘Gypsiness’
Andreea Racleș and Ana Ivasiuc (Vol. 28, Issue 1)

BOYHOOD STUDIES
“It’s Not Being Racist, but … ”: A Youth Gang and the Creation of Belonging Based on “Othering”
Sinead Gormally (Vol. 12, Issue 2)

FOCAAL
Eyes wide shut: Il/legality and solidarity in housing struggles in (post)socialist Sofia and Caracas
Mariya Ivancheva and Stefan Krastev (Vol. 2019, Issue 84)