This collection scrutinizes the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers face when working with and for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the context of global crises.
Contributors assess the impact of the pandemic on their engaged research, evaluating novel methods and technologies. They reveal how current research practice blurs the borders between activism and scholarship, and they argue the need for innovative collaborations with local communities.
Showcasing emerging aspects of GRT-related scholarship, this book makes a key contribution to larger debates on the positionality of researchers and the politics of research, and affirms the continued value of rigorous ethnography.
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1. Introduction: Emerging Trends in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research - Martin Fotta and Paloma Gay y Blasco 2. Responding to Research Challenges During COVID-19 with Graphic Facilitation - Tamsin Cavaliero 3. Innovation, Collaboration and Engagement: Proposals for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller-related Research - Martin Fotta and Paloma Gay y Blasco 4. Bridging Academia and Romani Activism in the Age of COVID-19 - Antonio Montañés Jiménez and Demetrio Gómez Ávila 5. The Athropologist’s Engagement: Lessons from a Digital Ethnography of a Nomad Camp in Times of COVID-19 - Marco Solimene 6. Roma Ethnographies of Grief in the COVID-19 Pandemic - Iliana Sarafian 7. Beyond the Screen: An Attempt to Conduct Remote Anthropological Research on Perceptions of a Global Crisis - Nathalie Manrique 8. Luxa’s Prism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Im/mobilities in Pandemic Times - Stefano Piemontese and Luxa Leoco 9. Over and Back Again: Reflections on Inhabiting the Paradoxical Role of Insider Researcher During COVID-19 - David Friel 10. Analysing Contradictions: Reflections on Ethnographic Work with Romanian Roma - Ana Chirițoiu 11. Concluding Remarks: Methods and the Future of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller-related Research - Martin Fotta and Paloma Gay y Blasco
Martin Fotta is Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Paloma Gay y Blasco is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.
Reviews for Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research: Lessons from a Time of Crisis
“This volume offers innovative and courageous scholarship through rich ethnographic accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic that had a dreadful effect on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities across Europe. It will be essential reading for researchers, activists, experts and anyone who wants to understand and reflect on the inequalities in knowledge production within academia.” Angéla Kóczé, Central European University
