Continuity or rupture? Roma/Gypsy communities in rural and urban environments under post-socialism

Růžička, Michal

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.01.019

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“…9 According to experts' estimations in 2007, there were 125 villages in Hungary (4% of total villages) populated entirely by Roma (Ministry of Social Affairs, 2007). 10 See also Ruzicka (2012) in this special issue on spatial segregation of Roma in Czech Republic and Slovakia. 11 See also Schwarcz (2012), this volume and Ruzicka 2012, this volume on the situation in former Czechoslovakia.…”

Section: Erd} Okürt the Researched Village And Its Micro-regionmentioning

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Rescuing a small village school in the context of rural change in Hungary

Kovács

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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a b s t r a c tThe paper discusses local responses to schooling policy in the context of the uneven differentiation and sharp social polarisation of the Hungarian countryside. Counter-urbanisation, on the one hand, has brought affluent urban middle classes to suburban spaces, on the other hand, peripheral areas are becoming impoverished with high unemployment, while there are rural areas where a process of ghettoisation is taking place. Parallel with these processes, rural education has had to face demographic decline and the shrinking ability of municipalities to maintain schools. The case study presented in this article illustrates the cultural and spatial barriers impeding the creation of co-operation in the field of education. Given that the community of the village concerned is remarkably vibrant, with strong intra-community horizontal ties, the concept of social capital is used to explain how bonding and bridging networks as well as "missing links" influence community actions, in this case a schoolrescue operation.

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Section: Erd} Okürt the Researched Village And Its Micro-regionmentioning

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Rescuing a small village school in the context of rural change in Hungary

Kovács

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…I can't do without it! During the winter I miss it, and I'm always eagerly waiting for the thaw and for 11 See also Ruzicka (2012) this volume for a discussion of how for some Roma communities in the former Czechoslovakia the collapse of communism did not constitute a specific turning point in what were in fact longer term experiences of deprivation and poverty. 12 Up until the mid-1960s collective farm workers were not paid guaranteed monthly wages, but rather a proportion of the farm's residual income depending on the calculation of labour days according to norms of production for each sector and type of employment (Bridger, 1987: 27).…”

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Managing everyday (in)securities: Normative values, emotional security and symbolic recognition in the lives of Russian rural elders

Kay

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…I have been re-visiting them (Burawoy 2003) for close to a decade (see c.f. Ruzicka 2011Ruzicka , 2012.…”

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“…As an anthropologist and sociologist who has been conducting ethnographic research among poor Roma families under post-socialism for more than a decade, I have focused on topics such as concrete mechanisms and forms of social exclusion (Ruzicka 2006), the role of kinship in the social organization of secluded Roma communities (Plavjanikova and Ruzicka 2008;Ruzicka 2009), and the role of space and time in the reproduction of Romani marginality (Ruzicka 2011(Ruzicka , 2012. Only quite recently did I turn my attention from how the Roma have been excluded "from the outside" to how they perceive, adapt and react to their disadvantaged position in the dominant social and economic system "from the inside".…”

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Unveiling what should remain hidden: ethics and politics of researching marginal people

Růžička

2016

Österreich Z Soziol

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The article is a reflection on ethnographic research conducted with poor Roma ("Gypsy") families under post-socialism, Europe's marginal people par excellence. Living on the periphery of the dominant socio-economic systems, marginal people often exploit precarious resources by means of informal strategies and tactics in an effort to secure their subsistence on a day-to-day basis. The craft of becoming invisible as well as remaining hidden from the gaze of the State apparatus thus might be a key ingredient of living under conditions of limited resources and opportunities. The article is a story of how the author attempted to solve the moral dilemma of what to do with data that are essentially important for understanding social reality, yet at the same time have been meant to remain hidden, never uncovered and never made public to outsiders. The author shows how understanding "the interior" -the subjectivity of marginal people who have severely limited access to resources and social recognition -is never fully possible without understanding the role which "the exterior" plays in shaping its conditions of possibility. The author argues that in order to grasp the subjectivity of marginal people, one first needs to make out the socio-historical conditions that shape the subjectivities of marginal people. Moreover, one needs to recognize the crucial role which the State plays in shaping the larger socio-historical framework that (re)produces their conditions. The moral and ethical dilemma of what to do with research that unveils what should remain hidden thus could be reconceptualized as the primarily political problem of facing the fundamentally unequal relationship between the State and its marginalized subjects and choosing a morally acceptable political position.

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Continuity or rupture? Roma/Gypsy communities in rural and urban environments under post-socialism

Cited by 21 publications

References 13 publications

Rescuing a small village school in the context of rural change in Hungary

Rescuing a small village school in the context of rural change in Hungary

Managing everyday (in)securities: Normative values, emotional security and symbolic recognition in the lives of Russian rural elders

Unveiling what should remain hidden: ethics and politics of researching marginal people

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