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VOLUME 1 • NUMBER 1 • 2018 Aims and Scope VOLUME 1 • NUMBER 1 • 2018 Aims and Scope Critical Romani Studies is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for activist-scholars to critically examine racial oppressions, different forms of exclusion, inequalities, and human rights abuses Editors of Roma. Without compromising academic standards of evidence collection and analysis, the Journal seeks to create a platform to critically engage with Maria Bogdan academic knowledge production, and generate critical academic and policy Central European University knowledge targeting – amongst others – scholars, activists, and policy-makers. Jekatyerina Dunajeva Pázmány Péter Catholic University Scholarly expertise is a tool, rather than the end, for critical analysis of social phenomena affecting Roma, contributing to the fight for social justice. The Journal Tímea Junghaus especially welcomes the cross-fertilization of Romani studies with the fields of European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical policy studies, diaspora studies, colonial studies, postcolonial studies, and studies of decolonization. Angéla Kóczé Central European University The Journal actively solicits papers from critically-minded young Romani Iulius Rostas (editor-in-chief) scholars who have historically experienced significant barriers in engaging Central European University with academic knowledge production. The Journal considers only previously unpublished manuscripts which present original, high-quality research. The Márton Rövid (managing editor) Journal is committed to the principle of open access, so articles are available free Central European University of charge. All published articles undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial Marek Szilvasi (review editor) editorial screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous scholars. The Journal Open Society Foundations provides a modest but fair remuneration for authors, editors, and reviewers. Tom Bass (copyeditor) The Journal has grown out of the informal Roma Research and Empowerment Network, and it is founded by the Romani Studies Program of Central Nadine Blumer (copyeditor) European University and the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. CEU organizes conferences regularly where draft papers are presented and István Fenyvesi (layout editor) discussed before selecting them for peer review. Arben Lezi (graphic designer) Editorial board Jacqueline Bhabha Harvard University Critical Romani Studies is published by the Romani Studies Program at Central European University. Iulius Rostas, Chair of Ethel Brooks Romani Studies. Address: Nádor utca 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary. Rutgers University Homepage: https://rap.ceu.edu Eric Fassin Open access to all issues and articles at https://crs.ceu.edu Paris-8 University Donations are welcome at https://giving.ceu.edu/supportRSP Colin Clark University of the West of Scotland Contact: [email protected] David Gillborn Prospective contributors: see submission guidelines at University of Birmingham https://crs.ceu.edu Ian Hancock University of Texas at Austin Publishers please send books for review to the review editor, Marek Szilvasi: [email protected] Éva Kovács Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies Cover: “Gypsyland Europa” by Damian Le Bas (2016). Image Hungarian Academy of Sciences courtesy of Delaine Le Bas and the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC). Matthias Möschel Central European University The journal is licensed under Creative Commons Jolán Orbán Attributions License. University of Pécs Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ISSN 2560-3019 Columbia University Enikő Vincze Babes-Bolyai University Contents Introducing the New Journal Critical Romani Studies Maria Bogdan, Jekatyerina Dunajeva, Tímea Junghaus, Angéla Kóczé, Iulius Rostas, Márton Rövid, Marek Szilvasi 2 Articles Challenging Anti-gypsyism in Academia: The Role of Romani Scholars Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka 8 Reclaiming Romani-ness: Identity Politics, Universality and Otherness Or, Towards a (New) Romani Subjectivity Ioanida Costache 30 Assessing the Historical Irresponsibility of the Gypsy Lore Society in Light of Romani Subaltern Challenges Jan Selling 44 Roma Integration ‘All the Way Down’: Lessons from Federalism and Civil Rights Felix B. Chang 62 ‘Neither bloody persecution nor well intended civilizing missions changed their nature or their number’: A Postcolonial Approach to Protestant ‘Zigeuner’ Missionary Efforts Verena Meier 86 Book Reviews Mihai Surdu, Those Who Count: Expert Practices of Roma Classification. Central European University Press, 2016 Andrzej Mirga 114 hooks, bell. (1989) Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press Jekatyerina Dunajeva 128 Arts and Culture African-American and Romani Filmic Representation and the ‘Posts’ of Post-Civil Rights and Post-EU Expansion Sunnie Rucker-Chang 132 A Critical Approach to Roma Design: Analyzing Objects by Meșteshukar ButiQ Ágota Szilágyi-Kispista 150 Introducing the New Journal Critical Romani Studies Maria Bogdan by the Hungarian Social Research Fund. Her research focuses on the in- [email protected] tersections between gender, ethnicity and class as well as the social and legal inequalities faced by the Roma in various European countries. She has Media Theorist and Journalist, Visiting Researcher at CEU published several peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters with Romani Studies Program various international presses including Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate, and ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1146-3249 Central European University Press, as well as several thematic policy pa- pers related to social inclusion, gender equality, social justice, and civil so- Maria Bogdan’s main research interest is related to media represen tation ciety. She currently is preparing a monograph on the political activism and and modern forms of racism. For her PhD thesis she has been focusing on social struggles of Romani women in post-socialist Europe, as well as an the media representation of Roma in Hungary. She is a Fulbright Alumna edited volume that takes stock of the contemporary situation and identity and has done part of her PhD research at Columbia University in the City struggle of Europe’s Romani minority. In 2013, the Woodrow Wilson Inter- of New York. She was a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sci- national Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. honored Kóczé with the ences (2014–2017) and was an assistant lecturer at the University of Pécs Ion Ratiu Democracy Award for her interdisciplinary research approach, (2006–2013). As a journalist, she worked at different television and radio which combines community engagement and policymaking with in-depth stations and newspapers across in Hungary. Currently Bogdan is a visiting participatory research on the situation of the Roma. researcher fellow at CEU Romani Studies Program. Iulius Rostas Jekatyerina Dunajeva [email protected] [email protected] Chair of Romani Studies and Assistant Professor Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies and Central European University Political Science, Pázmány Péter Catholic University ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9646-5619 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1826-6731 Dr. Iulius Rostas is the Chair of Romani Studies/Assistant Professor at Cen- tral European University in Budapest. He was an Affiliated Fellow with the Dr. Jekatyerina Dunajeva received her PhD at the University of Oregon. Institute for Advanced Studies at CEU, Senior Fellow with the Open Soci- In her dissertation, she examined how schooling affected Roma identity ety Foundations Roma Initiatives Office, and a Visiting Lecturer at Corvi- formation over time in Hungary and Russia. Dr. Dunajeva’s research has nus University of Budapest. Dr. Rostas is the editor of Ten Years After: A been published in several edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. History of Roma School Desegregation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEU Her fields of research are Roma, political and ethnic identity, youth pol- Press, 2012), and in 2011 he published Social Inclusion or Exclusion: The itics, and state- and nation-building. In addition to teaching at Pázmány Rights of Persons Living with HIV in Moldova (Cartier Publishing). His up- Péter Catholic University, Dr. Dunajeva collaborates with international coming book, Ethnicity, Power and Inclusion: Why Policies Towards Roma research groups, working as a consultant and political analyst. in Europe Are Failing, will be published by CEU Press in 2018. Tímea Junghaus [email protected] Márton Rövid [email protected] Executive Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture Post-doctoral Fellow, Central European University ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9545-1493 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5072-4547 Tímea Junghaus is an art historian and contemporary art curator. She has Márton Rövid is an activist-scholar, a dedicated teacher, and an experienced been the Executive Director of the Berlin-based European Roma Institute policy analyst. He holds a PhD in political science from Central European for Arts and Culture since its opening in 2017. Previously, Junghaus was a University. Currently, he is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Eco- Research Fellow of the Working Group for Critical Theories at the Insti- nomics and Business at CEU, and a teacher at the Jesuit Roma College in tute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2010–2017). She Hungary. His most recent publication
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