Mapping the mind: Borders, migration and myth

Fraser, Robert

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“…Some of our earliest documentary evidence of the presence of Romanies in Europe in the fifteenth century relates to letters guaranteeing safe conduct; these were written documents whose holders at least understood them-it was dangerous to produce a letter which did not offer what had been verbally promised-and were able to either reproduce them or recognise a decent copy (Fraser, 2003). Thomas Acton notes that the nineteenth century saw 'an increasing professionalization of Romani selfrepresentation in Europe, in the sense that musicians, fortune-tellers and hosts of Gypsy balls and spectacles were able to charge Gaje [non-Romani] for attending their own representations of Romani life' (Acton, 2004: 100).…”

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Where are the Romanies? An Absent Presence in Narratives of Britishness

Matthews

2015

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AbsractThe article explores the exclusion or ghettoization of British Romani experience in narratives of historical Britishness, an action that resounds in contemporary politics and identities. It suggests that scholarship might do more to retrieve quotidian and, in particular, shared histories of British Romani culture, integrating those histories into broader narratives about a national past. This scholarly retrieval of everyday Romani life in the past involves reconsidering what might constitute evidence of this experience, and might be open to rewriting established orthodoxies of Romani/Gypsy Studies, with an awareness of the politics of such subversion.

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Where are the Romanies? An Absent Presence in Narratives of Britishness

Matthews

2015

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Mobile Lives

Glăveanu¹

2020

Mobilities and Human Possibility

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Unlike the previous phylogenetic and sociogenetic focus, this chapter considers a different timescale: the life-course. By reflecting on how movement and migration define life trajectories, an argument is made that mobile lives are, at once, agentic lives. Even when personal mobility ‘fails’, its role in expanding our horizon remains. Forced and traumatic migration are discussed as extreme cases that illustrate the delicate balance between movement, possibility and impossibility in the life-course.

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“Thousands of these floating hovels”: Picturing Bargees in Image and Text

Matthews

2013

Nineteenth-Century Contexts

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Mapping the mind: Borders, migration and myth

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Where are the Romanies? An Absent Presence in Narratives of Britishness

Where are the Romanies? An Absent Presence in Narratives of Britishness

Mobile Lives

“Thousands of these floating hovels”: Picturing Bargees in Image and Text

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