Roma as Locals? Belonging, Gypsyness, and the Politics of Space in an Eastern Slovak Village

Ort, Jan

doi:10.13060/csr.2021.040

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“…Today, the attractiveness of the topic is fading, and while Czech anthropological journals still include articles on Roma communities, there is much less work in this area than there was during the first decade of the century. Most contemporary works deal with the issue of Roma identity construction, poverty, life in socially excluded locations (e.g., Brožovičová, 2017; Ort, 2021; Shivariová et al., 2021; Vavroch, 2014), and the conversion to Pentecostalism among Czech and Slovak Roma who migrated to England (Doležalová, 2017; Ort & Dobruská, 2018).…”

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Comrades and spies

Hřešanová

2023

American Ethnologist

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When Czechs consider their involvement in the global colonial system, they usually imagine themselves as the victims of Soviet imperial power. This is the case among those Czech anthropologists whose research under state socialism was tightly circumscribed. But focusing on this history alone enables Czech scholars to obscure their nation's participation in “colonialism without colonies” and to maintain presumptions of “colonial innocence.” In fact, Czechs themselves imposed internal colonialism on the Roma and on people living in the country's sub‐Carpathian region. Some Czech scholars are increasingly reflecting on Czech colonialism, but others still perceive the decoloniality debate as a Western import in the postsocialist era. Nonetheless, anthropology's decolonizing projects may offer ways forward, helping us understand how Cold War imaginaries persist in academia.

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Section: Resarch With Romamentioning

confidence: 99%

Comrades and spies

Hřešanová

2023

American Ethnologist

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“…Eviktabilita, evikce a romské obyvatelstvo V případě lidí romské etnicity na Slovensku, kteří jsou těmi postiženými ve zde analyzované evikci, lze identifikovat některé strukturálnější příčiny, proč se v daném kontextu stali aktéry v procesu. Příčiny vyvěrají ze stigmatizace, marginalizace a segregace romského obyvatelstva v prostředí střední a východní Evropy (Černušáková, 2020;Mihály, 2019;Ort, 2021;Powell a Lever, 2017). Od devadesátých let 20. století na Slovensku prakticky neexistuje kvalitní bytová politika, která by systematicky řešila potřeby lidí z různých částí socioekonomického spektra.…”

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Housing as an Exception, Eviction as Everyday Life

Doboš,

Jamrichová,

Mácha

et al. 2023

Czech Sociological Review

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Housing as an Exception, Eviction as Everyday Lifeabstract: This article focuses on evictability and the eviction of the residents of one block of flats in a small southern Slovakian town. Most of the building's inhabitants are Roma, but the problem of cultural racism is interconnected with political, economic, legal, and even research and activist issues. The article is based on socially committed ethnographic research and the perspective of critical human geography. The theoretical framework is informed by the geographies of eviction, which grasp evictions as a becoming affective process. In this approach the focus is on not just the structural and other causes of eviction and its negative consequences but also and above all on the eviction that is taking place in the present and that temporally goes beyond the act of displacement -it signifies the lasting effect of sovereign power exercised through threats of eviction and 'home unmaking' brought about by the withholding of vital infrastructure. The analysis distinguishes four becoming phases. The first one shows how tenants' precarity is made when their stigmatisation as Roma intersects with the neoliberal imperatives of individual responsibility asserted by the town. In the second phase, the eviction begins, giving rise to affects of confusion, desperation, and fear. The third phase brings resistance to the arbitrary sovereign power of the town authorities. In the fourth phase the resistance sees some successes, but the town's sovereign power at the same time expands its spatiality. The state of the eviction here is not final and it can still develop in different ways.

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Roma as Locals? Belonging, Gypsyness, and the Politics of Space in an Eastern Slovak Village

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