Romani studies between academic power relations and EU funding: methodological field notes

0580374 - EÚ 2024 eng A - Abstract
Magazzini, Tina
Romani studies between academic power relations and EU funding: methodological field notes.
[“Minority science” in the short 20th century. Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague, 30.03.2023-01.04.2023]
Method of presentation: Přednáška
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) LQ300582201
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : history of science * minority science * minorities
OECD category: Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Extensive political and media attention has been devoted to Roma minorities, especially since the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. This triggered, in turn, a new and growing research strand focused on Roma as a subject of study, and the policies developed as a response to Roma migration.
As a result, Roma have become highly attractive as a subject of study, but at the cost of naturalizing the criteria used to evaluate Roma’s human capital as one of poverty, exclusion and marginalization.
This ‘normalized’ definition and isolation of Romani Studies as dealing with either marginalization or identity politics has created a problematic relationship 1) between policymakers and academia and 2) between the researchers and the researched.
This paper aims at exploring these two dynamics by drawing on years of fieldwork as both an academic and a consultant on this topic, and by tracing the alternative epistemologies that Romani scholars have been developing and proposing over the past few years.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349323