1st Edition
Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives Methods, Ethics and Dilemmas
This is the first interdisciplinary collection to analyse the place of Romanies and Travellers within contemporary Europe through the lens of gender and violence. In hospitals, schools, and social assistance centres; in encounters with humanitarian agencies and the police; and in media and state representations, violence against Romanies and Travellers is always gendered. The contributors disentangle the array of relations, expectations, and beliefs that make gendered violences against Romanies and Travellers appear necessary, unavoidable, or appropriate. They examine forms of gendered violence that may develop within Romani and Traveller communities against this framework of oppression and attrition.
The volume foregrounds the methodological and ethical challenges involved in researching gendered violences in Romani and Traveller contexts, questioning the relationships between gender, violence, and other experiences and concepts such as marginalisation, oppression, exclusion, harm, slow death, social suffering, and necropolitics. The volume is grounded in reflexive feminist standpoints with a collaborative ethos that offers proposals for further analysis, policy development, and engaged practice. It contributes to the theorising of gendered violence in the social sciences by assessing dominant models and perspectives in the light of overlooked Romani and Traveller experiences, and is particularly relevant to scholars from anthropology, gender studies, sociology, and social work.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Researching Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives—Methods, Ethics, and Dilemmas; Part 1 Identifying; Chapter 2 Living Through and Witnessing Urban Violence in Finland: An Unplanned Reciprocal Ethnography; Chapter 3 Meaning-Making of Obstetric Violence by Kalaydji Roma Women in Bulgaria: Reflections on Methodology; Chapter 4 Encountering Violence: The Policing of Violent Masculinities in Roma Settlements in Rome; Chapter 5 Marital Violence and Spanish Romani Women: Debating Categories and Experiences; Part 2 Communicating; Chapter 6 ‘Do Travellers’ Lives Matter?’ Unmasking the Impact of Structural Violence, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Anti-Traveller Racism on the Mental Health of Irish Traveller Men; Chapter 7 Researching Discrimination and Abuse of Romani Women in Maternity Care: The Relevance of a Fact-Finding Investigation in Hungary; Chapter 8 Humanitarian Protection and the Politics of Labelling: The Case of Displaced Iraqi and Syrian Roma; Part 3 Theorising; Chapter 9 Whiteness, Essentialisms, and Identity Conflicts among Gender and/or Sex-Dissident Rroma; Chapter 10 Dominating Experiences: Psychic and Symbolic Violence against Romani Women in Hungary; Chapter 11 Staying with the Violence: Reflections on Traveller Violence(s), Multi-perspectivism, and Raw Ethnography; Chapter 12 Gendered Reproductions of Epistemic Violence and Embodied Silence
Biography
Paloma Gay Blasco is a senior lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Iliana Sarafian is a lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London, UK.
Raluca Roman is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
