Sharing the Insecure Sensible: The Circulation of Images of Roma on Social Media

Ivasiuc, Ana

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“…Particularly profuse are images of Roma or Black immigrants searching for reusable objects in dumpsters. The subtext to all the complaints about the blight brought into the neighbourhood by racialized others is the house prices which must be secured against devaluation (Ivasiuc, 2019a).…”

Section: The Night Watchmentioning

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Race Matters: The Materiality of Domopolitics in the Peripheries of Rome

Ivasiuc¹

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This essay explores the political struggles around the making of the peripheral neighbourhood of Nuova Ponte di Nona in Rome, examining the place that housing occupies in securitarian domopolitics as a politics of protecting one's home while at the same time (re) producing the materiality of the neighbourhood along class and race divides. The essay calls for a greater analytical focus on issues of materiality in the recently emerging debates on 'domopolitics' or 'the politics of home'--a politics which constructs various scales of territory as a 'home' to be protected against invading outsiders cast as enemies. It conjoins debates around urban materiality with debates around the fear of racialized others outside the home as constitutive of the development of the 'domestic fortress'. In this regard, the essay takes up the argument on the centrality of race in securitization moves, providing empirical support for the increased analytical emphasis on the workings of race alongside those of class, and on the embeddedness of racializing practices in corporeality and urban material culture.1The fieldwork covered a range of actors (police, a neighbourhood patrol, inhabitants of a nearby Roma camp) whose practices I examined through interviews and participant observation--including during police and neighbourhood patrols--and digital ethnography.

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Section: The Night Watchmentioning

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Race Matters: The Materiality of Domopolitics in the Peripheries of Rome

Ivasiuc¹

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…The proliferation of a type of "securitarian visuality" (Ivasiuc 2019), in which Jacobs's "eyes on the street" get weaponized into instruments of surveillance and fortress defense, can be tied more directly to what Neil Smith (1996) famously diagnosed as the revanchist city, oriented toward punishing those deemed obstacles to sanitized images of the bourgeois city. This is part of a global surge in efforts to produce the city anew through "vigilant visualities," or a watchful politics traceable to "the ' behind the blinds' surveillance of 1950s suburban neighbourhood watch" (Amoore 2007, 216).…”

Section: Designing Fortresses: Building and Managing Secure Spacesmentioning

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Security Aesthetics of and Beyond the Biopolitical

Ghertner¹,

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Goldstein³

2020

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“…That image is so complete, as argued by this work, that it does not differ much from the mainstream image of the Roma in the present day and age. For contemporary images see the works of Ivasiuc (2019) and van Baar, Ivasiuc, and Kreide (2019). This article should be considered as a snapshot as it focuses on the presentation of a specific, yet important, timeframe in the history of Bulgaria and the civic and social emancipation of their Roma.…”

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Images of Roma through the Language of Bulgarian State Archives

Marinov

2020

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This research has been carried out as part of the RomaInterbellum Project which studies the Roma civic emancipation between World War I and World War II. Trawling through the Bulgarian archival documents on Roma in this time period, a reader cannot help but begin to form a certain image about the Tsigani, the term with which Roma have been popularly referred to in the archives. Unsurprisingly, this image does not seem to differ much from the one of today—that of the uneducated, dirty, foreign, and that pose a threat not only to the prosperity and well-being of the Bulgarian population and culture at large but also to the state and the economy. The research is based on archived files, letters of complaints from Bulgarian citizens and other documents sourced from Bulgarian state archives. The article analyses the words and language employed in the archived documents, the connotations they bear and the images they build. It also tries to show how, in the interwar period, this dominant language was utilised by Roma individuals and leaders in order to react, counter and protect their image and future. More importantly, they sought ways to build a better integrated Roma society through the establishment of own organisations and associations. Understanding this historical narrative from the interwar period is essential in advancing knowledge of many major issues surrounding the Roma today, such as housing, health and their social inclusion.

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Sharing the Insecure Sensible: The Circulation of Images of Roma on Social Media

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Race Matters: The Materiality of Domopolitics in the Peripheries of Rome

Race Matters: The Materiality of Domopolitics in the Peripheries of Rome

Security Aesthetics of and Beyond the Biopolitical

Images of Roma through the Language of Bulgarian State Archives

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