Marisha
New member
This will be a very long post, so please bear with me. Since there are members on this forum of Roma ancestry I think that this may be a very interesting opportunity for them.
Marisha
-----Original Message-----
From: Krista Hegburg [mailto:kmh55@columbia.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:37 PM
To: kph2@columbia.edu
Subject: CfP: AEER issue on Roma & Gadje
CALL FOR PAPERS: For a special issue of the
Anthropology of East Europe Review on Roma and Gadje,
scheduled for Fall 2007. We are seeking papers that
consider the ways Romani individuals and communities
negotiate, resist and reproduce the places Roma occupy
in the social and political contexts of non-Romani
spheres, as well as sociological analyses of the
lifeworlds and counterpublics of Roma.
As a liberal order consolidates throughout the Eastern
European region, Roma everywhere are taken up either
as (to borrow a term from Saidiya Hartman) the
“imaginative surface” of the woes of postsocialism or
as a romanticized remnant of a bygone past. Roma seem
to exist in the shadow of culture – timeless, errant
and enchantingly Other – while the social worlds they
inhabit are circumscribed by their intensifying
economic and spatial marginalization and the continued
pathologization of their behavior as inadaptable and
often criminal. The historical roots of such
stereotyping run deep and resonate powerfully in our
particular moment: the Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikán/Cigany
Other continues to function within discussions of
transnational European identities, even as these
discourses claim a complete break with the
ethnonational identities of the past. Gadje, in turn,
are rarely, if ever, explicitly implicated in the
public figurations of difference through which Romani
and Gadje identities are mutually constituted and that
set the terms of much of the scholarly and activist
engagement with Romani lives.
We seek contributions that situate their analysis
within this specular constitution of otherness in
specific historical, political and social milieux. How
are individual Roma and Gadje interpolated by the
dynamic and shifting boundaries that inform the
dialectics of identity? What are the micro-physics of
the negotiations along this border, and how do they
sustain the production of difference? How are the
ambiguities and indeterminacies encountered along
these borders stabilized and made commensurate in acts
of recognition (or rejection) of otherness? And how
does the figuration of Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikán/Cigany
difference symbolically secure the emergent political
orders in the eastward progression of
“Europeanization?”
Contributions might address visual culture, the
entanglements of power and visibility, and the
spectacularization of Zigeuner/ Tigani/ Cikán/ Cigany
difference, or the processes of subjectivization, the
implications of the pervasiveness of the
Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikán/Cigany Other for the Romani
self, its embodiments, its practices of self-knowledge
and self-care, or the poetics and aesthetics of Romani
resistance and dissimulation and attendant issues of
performativity. Interdisciplinary contributions
reflecting sustained ethnographic or archival
engagement with Romani communities in Eastern Europe
are particularly welcome. Yasar Abu Ghosh, Krista
Hegburg, and Shannon Woodcock, the guest editors,
would especially like to encourage activists, scholars
from the region, and junior scholars, including
post-fieldwork graduate students, to contribute to
this volume. Papers should not exceed 10,000 words and
must be submitted by May 15 for consideration for fall
publication. A limited number of contributions may be
translated; please contact the editors in advance of
submission for further information.
Papers and inquiries may be sent to Krista Hegburg at
kmh55@columbia.edu
For more information please visit
CfP: Roma and Gadje
Marisha
-----Original Message-----
From: Krista Hegburg [mailto:kmh55@columbia.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:37 PM
To: kph2@columbia.edu
Subject: CfP: AEER issue on Roma & Gadje
CALL FOR PAPERS: For a special issue of the
Anthropology of East Europe Review on Roma and Gadje,
scheduled for Fall 2007. We are seeking papers that
consider the ways Romani individuals and communities
negotiate, resist and reproduce the places Roma occupy
in the social and political contexts of non-Romani
spheres, as well as sociological analyses of the
lifeworlds and counterpublics of Roma.
As a liberal order consolidates throughout the Eastern
European region, Roma everywhere are taken up either
as (to borrow a term from Saidiya Hartman) the
“imaginative surface” of the woes of postsocialism or
as a romanticized remnant of a bygone past. Roma seem
to exist in the shadow of culture – timeless, errant
and enchantingly Other – while the social worlds they
inhabit are circumscribed by their intensifying
economic and spatial marginalization and the continued
pathologization of their behavior as inadaptable and
often criminal. The historical roots of such
stereotyping run deep and resonate powerfully in our
particular moment: the Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikán/Cigany
Other continues to function within discussions of
transnational European identities, even as these
discourses claim a complete break with the
ethnonational identities of the past. Gadje, in turn,
are rarely, if ever, explicitly implicated in the
public figurations of difference through which Romani
and Gadje identities are mutually constituted and that
set the terms of much of the scholarly and activist
engagement with Romani lives.
We seek contributions that situate their analysis
within this specular constitution of otherness in
specific historical, political and social milieux. How
are individual Roma and Gadje interpolated by the
dynamic and shifting boundaries that inform the
dialectics of identity? What are the micro-physics of
the negotiations along this border, and how do they
sustain the production of difference? How are the
ambiguities and indeterminacies encountered along
these borders stabilized and made commensurate in acts
of recognition (or rejection) of otherness? And how
does the figuration of Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikán/Cigany
difference symbolically secure the emergent political
orders in the eastward progression of
“Europeanization?”
Contributions might address visual culture, the
entanglements of power and visibility, and the
spectacularization of Zigeuner/ Tigani/ Cikán/ Cigany
difference, or the processes of subjectivization, the
implications of the pervasiveness of the
Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikán/Cigany Other for the Romani
self, its embodiments, its practices of self-knowledge
and self-care, or the poetics and aesthetics of Romani
resistance and dissimulation and attendant issues of
performativity. Interdisciplinary contributions
reflecting sustained ethnographic or archival
engagement with Romani communities in Eastern Europe
are particularly welcome. Yasar Abu Ghosh, Krista
Hegburg, and Shannon Woodcock, the guest editors,
would especially like to encourage activists, scholars
from the region, and junior scholars, including
post-fieldwork graduate students, to contribute to
this volume. Papers should not exceed 10,000 words and
must be submitted by May 15 for consideration for fall
publication. A limited number of contributions may be
translated; please contact the editors in advance of
submission for further information.
Papers and inquiries may be sent to Krista Hegburg at
kmh55@columbia.edu
For more information please visit
CfP: Roma and Gadje