Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives

Methods, Ethics and Dilemmas

Paloma Gay Blasco, Iliana Sarafian, Raluca Roman

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Routledge
26 July 2024

Social issues & processes; Gender studies, gender groups; Ethnic studies; Sociology: customs & traditions; Social & cultural anthropology

This is the first interdisciplinary collection to analyse the place of Romanies and Travellers within contemporary Europe through the lens of gender and violence. In hospitals, schools, and social assistance centres; in encounters with humanitarian agencies and the police; and in media and state representations, violence against Romanies and Travellers is always gendered. The contributors disentangle the array of relations, expectations, and beliefs that make gendered violences against Romanies and Travellers appear necessary, unavoidable, or appropriate. They examine forms of gendered violence that may develop within Romani and Traveller communities against this framework of oppression and attrition.

The volume foregrounds the methodological and ethical challenges involved in researching gendered violences in Romani and Traveller contexts, questioning the relationships between gender, violence, and other experiences and concepts such as marginalisation, oppression, exclusion, harm, slow death, social suffering, and necropolitics. The volume is grounded in reflexive feminist standpoints with a collaborative ethos that offers proposals for further analysis, policy development, and engaged practice. It contributes to the theorising of gendered violence in the social sciences by assessing dominant models and perspectives in the light of overlooked Romani and Traveller experiences, and is particularly relevant to scholars from anthropology, gender studies, sociology, and social work.

Edited by: Paloma Gay Blasco, Iliana Sarafian, Raluca Roman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032629254
ISBN 10: 1032629258
Pages: 10
Publication Date: 26 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Paloma Gay Blasco is a senior lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. Iliana Sarafian is a lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London, UK. Raluca Roman is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.