Those who count : expert practices of Roma classification /

Those who count : expert practices of Roma classification /

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Author / Creator:Surdu, Mihai, author.
Imprint:Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description:xv, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Romanies -- Government policy.
Romanies -- Research.
Ethnicity -- Government policy -- Europe.
Classification -- Political aspects -- Europe.
Classification -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Census.
Social surveys -- Political aspects -- Europe.
Romanies -- Public opinion.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Public opinion -- Europe.
Census.
Ethnicity -- Government policy.
Public opinion.
Romanies -- Government policy.
Romanies -- Public opinion.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Europe.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11004624
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ISBN:9789633861141
9633861144
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The book scrutinizes the scientific and expert practices of Roma classification in a historic perspective focusing on the expert discourses that gave rise to Roma-related policies in the last two decades. Epistemic communities that classify and describe Roma obey the commandments of political regimes in power, to the disciplinary research traditions and to the organizational interests. The resultant of knowledge subordination is a negative Roma public image that creates and reinforce stereotypical views held by the society at large. Case studies and thorough examples in the book show that both the census as an administrative and scientific practice, as well as policy related surveys are crafting Roma identity in an essentializing manner. The census reifies Roma by the use of mutually exclusive categories and by post-codification of data while the surveys do so by unfounded representativeness claims. Roma are relegated by the experts to several types of determinism: to a social category, to a frozen culture and to a biologized entity. The recently reemerged scholarship in Roma-related genetics imported classifications and narrations created in the fields of social sciences and contributed to circulation of bio-historical narratives that singularize, pathologize and exoticize Roma"--Provided by publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Epistemic and Political Classifications
  • 1. Classifications That Matter
  • Strengthening the object of study
  • Static and Variable in Roma classifications
  • 2. Scientific Interests and Political Relevance ...
  • The political economy of knowledge production
  • 3. From Expert to Self-Ascription
  • Chapter 2. Ethnicity Theories and Research Practices
  • 1. Constructivist Theories VS. Essentialist Practices
  • Ethnicity as a fiction made by science
  • The entrepreneurial side of ethnicity
  • Ethnicity as an artificial boundary
  • Ethnicity as an uncritical circulated category
  • 2. Roma Ethnicity Measurement in Sociological Surveys
  • How Roma representative samples are made
  • Framing questions and interpreting findings in Roma-related surveys
  • Chapter 3. Disciplinary Traditions in the Study of Roma
  • 1. From Police Profiling to Policy Research Profiles
  • 2. Anthropological, Historical, and Linguistic Accounts of Roma
  • Linguistics and historiography of Roma
  • Social history on Roma minoritization and stigmatization
  • Anthropological views on Roma origin: Exoticization and irrelevance
  • 3. Roma Identity Between Activism and Politics ...
  • 4. Studies on Roma Discrimination
  • Chapter 4. Ethnicity Inscriptions in Censuses and Surveys
  • 1. The Census in Racial Policy Regimes
  • The Census in Nazi Germany
  • The Census in apartheid South Africa
  • 2. Ethnicity Inscription in Modern Censuses
  • Governmental practices of recording ethnicity in censuses
  • The Census as a tool of governance
  • Resistance to census categorization
  • 3. From Fiscal to Ethnic Categories and Further On to 'Ethnic Unavailable'
  • Gypsies as a social and fiscal category
  • Gypsies as an undercounted census category
  • Roma as an unavailable ethnic category
  • 4. Problematic Consensus on the Roma Undercount in Censuses
  • 5. Representative Surveys Samples Built On Unrepresentative Census Data
  • Chapter 5. Influencers of Academic and Expert Discourse About Roma
  • 1. A Bibliometric Approach
  • 2. Institutionalization of Roma Category in Academic Discourse
  • 3. Disentangling Influence
  • 4. Who is Who in Expert Discourse About Roma
  • Chapter 6. Case Studies on Roma-Related Discourse
  • 1. Recycling Frames in World Bank Publications (Case Study 1)
  • Cultural frames
  • Repetitio est mater studiourum
  • Selectivity of sources and assembling evidence in Roma-related research
  • 2. Roma Welfare Dependency: How Representations Are Created and Dismantled (Case Study 2)
  • Unmaking public opinion
  • 3. Genetic Studies: Interest in Roma Origin(S) and Mobility (Case Study 3)
  • Endogamy as a master narrative frame in Roma-related genetic papers
  • The unbearable generalization: From convenience samples to Roma population
  • Roma as subjects of medical genetic research
  • 4. "The Sun is a Gypsy Stove" (Case Study 4)
  • Chapter 7. Visual Depictions of Roma in Expert Publications
  • 1. Reading Photography: Pretext, Text, and Context
  • Selection of photographs for analysis
  • 2. Roma Images in Policy Literature
  • Roma girl writing in a schoolbook
  • Children by the garbage dumpsite
  • The smoking Roma
  • 3. The Untold Roma Story or the Repressed Normalcy
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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