Foreword
Ethel Brooks
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. Personal Equation: Where did it All
Start?
The dilemma
The guiding
questions and objectives of the book
Romani
voices in academia and the emergence of Romani
positionality
Europe vs. Latin
America
Structure of the book
Chapter 1. Defining Ethnic Mobilization – A Synergic
Approach
Ethnic mobilization – a conceptual
puzzle
Defining ethnic
mobilization
Understanding Romani ethnic
mobilization
Chapter 2. Political Opportunities – Understanding the
Broader Context
Setting the scene: Ethnic mobilization in Europe and Latin
America
Roma as political subjects
Roma in Europe and Latin America: Comparable cases?
Chapter 3. Romani Ethnic Mobilization in a Comparative
Perspective. Looking into the Case Study Countries
Argentina, Colombia and Spain: majority contexts, minority
struggles
Reconstructing the genealogy of
Romani presence
In search of windows of political opportunity
Anno Domini 2017 – Status of Roma
Chapter 4. Who is Doing the Mobilizing? Anatomy of
Romani Ethnic Mobilization through the Prism of the
Actors
Anatomy of a movement – birth and growth of
Romani actors Argentina
Panorama of Romani
mobilizing structures: an overview
Leadership
and composition patterns
Multiple voices:
Between fragmentation and consolidation
Rationale for ethnic mobilization
Chapter 5. Mobilizing Frames? Identity and Interests
Intertwined
Identity and interests – and potential of
collective agency
Romani identity frames
Romani frames of collective interest
Mobilizing frames? Frame alignment and frame
correspondence vis-à-vis Romani constituency
Chapter 6. Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity for Collective
Action
Targets of mobilization – why is this
important?
Targeting structures of power –
external upward mobilization
Building support
and seeking allies – external sideways mobilization
Internal mobilization – community as a resource?
Conclusion
Conclusions. Mobilizing for Change? Limits and Potential
of Romani Ethnic Mobilization
Roma issue as a global
issue – importance of the trans-continental perspective
Contributions to Romani Studies
Romani agency in the world politics – possibilities and
opportunities
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Dr. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka is an anthropologist and a
Romani activist. She has conducted extensive research with
Romani communities in multiple European and Latin American
countries, with a particular focus on Romani political
mobilization, ethnopolitics and identity construction. Since 2018,
she serves as the deputy director of the European Roma Institute
for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).
Ethel Brooks is an Associate Professor in the Departments of
Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University
(USA) and a Tate-TRAiN Transnational Fellow at the University of
the Arts-London, where she was 2011-2012 US-UK Fulbright
Distinguished Chair.
"Through its novel epistelomolgy and methodology, by presenting a cross-national transcontinental comparison, Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity challenges the Eurocentrism inherent in Romani Studies. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka deftly navigates contentious issues in the field such as knowledge production and agency, and is not afraid to take a position which is refreshing to see. This book represents a milestone in the development of Roma scholarship."--Aidan McGarry
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