1st Edition
Roma in Europe The Politics of Collective Identity Formation
By Ioana Bunescu
Copyright 2014
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational collective identity through the practices and discourses of everyday life, as well as through those of identity politics. It illustrates how the collective identity formation of the Roma in Europe is constituted simultaneously in the local, national,... Read more
Roma in Europe
Biography
Ioana Bunescu is Postdoctoral Researcher in Global Political Studies at Malmö University in Sweden.
’The book offers a much needed link between careful ethnography of local Roma communities and a study of the European Roma political movement in its transnational context. Ioana Bunescu skilfully presents the complex plurality of contemporary Roma identities as a multidimensional, negotiated process of political resistance and cultural hybridization. An inspiring voice in the ongoing debates on Roma and on identity.’ Slawomir Kapralski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland and Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Austria ’This is an important work on the topical issue of collective identity construction among Roma in Europe. Valuable empirical insights are provided through an innovative multi-sited methodological approach involving extensive fieldwork. The author’s interviews with Roma Kings render a unique contribution to the extant literature.’ Bo Petersson, Malmö University, Sweden
