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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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.
It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer
programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and
politicians. Latin America has often been used as a testing ground
for these programs, which consist of transfers of money to
subsections of the population upon meeting certain conditions, such
as sending their children to school or having them vaccinated.
Money from the Government in Latin America takes a comparative view
of the effects of this regular transfer of money, which comes with
obligations, on rural communities. Drawing on a variety of data,
taken from different disciplinary perspectives, these chapters help
to build an understanding of the place of conditional cash transfer
programsin rural families and households, in individuals'
aspirations and visions, in communities' relationships to urban
areas, and in the overall character of these rural societies. With
case studies from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, this
book will interest scholars and researchers of Latin American
anthropology, sociology, development, economics and politics.
It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer
programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and
politicians. Latin America has often been used as a testing ground
for these programs, which consist of transfers of money to
subsections of the population upon meeting certain conditions, such
as sending their children to school or having them vaccinated.
Money from the Government in Latin America takes a comparative view
of the effects of this regular transfer of money, which comes with
obligations, on rural communities. Drawing on a variety of data,
taken from different disciplinary perspectives, these chapters help
to build an understanding of the place of conditional cash transfer
programsin rural families and households, in individuals'
aspirations and visions, in communities' relationships to urban
areas, and in the overall character of these rural societies. With
case studies from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, this
book will interest scholars and researchers of Latin American
anthropology, sociology, development, economics and politics.
This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to
global financial transformations and shifted their economic
practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. It also explores
their role as ethnic credit providers, offering rare insight into
the financial lives of poor and lower-middle-class Brazilians. More
broadly, this volume examines how ethnic difference is created in a
context where fixed and collective structures supporting ethnic
identity are missing. It is important reading for economic
anthropologists, cultural economists and all those interested in
processes of financialisation from a local perspective, as well as
those fascinated by informal economies, how exchange and debt
relate to social and political marginality, and how financial
credit becomes 'domesticated' by communities.
Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their
social position. The authors of this volume explore these
complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social
relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities
are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure
are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore
how, despite - or perhaps because of - their unstable and ambiguous
position within the market economy, shared today with a growing
number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and
Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable
economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share
accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that
face their situation with self-determination and creativity.
Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their
social position. The authors of this volume explore these
complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social
relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities
are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure
are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore
how, despite - or perhaps because of - their unstable and ambiguous
position within the market economy, shared today with a growing
number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and
Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable
economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share
accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that
face their situation with self-determination and creativity.
A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO
workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals,
and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of
COVID-19 on Romani communities globally. The contributors reveal
how the pandemic has exacerbated Romani disenfranchisement and
document the resilience and creativity with which Romanies have
responded to the crisis. Deploying innovative textual formats, and
including poignant personal reflections, memoirs, scholarly
analyses, and diary excerpts, the volume provides a roadmap for
collaboration and dialogue at a time of global emergency. This is
the most significant chronicle of Romani stories about the COVID
crisis ever assembled. From the Introduction: The contributions
include memoirs, opinion essays, transcriptions of conversations or
interviews, ethnographic analyses, and a compelling short story by
Romani writer Iveta Kokyová, as well as pieces that stride the
boundaries between one or more of these genres, or that fit into
none.
A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO
workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals,
and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of
COVID-19 on Romani communities globally. The contributors reveal
how the pandemic has exacerbated Romani disenfranchisement and
document the resilience and creativity with which Romanies have
responded to the crisis. Deploying innovative textual formats, and
including poignant personal reflections, memoirs, scholarly
analyses, and diary excerpts, the volume provides a roadmap for
collaboration and dialogue at a time of global emergency. This is
the most significant chronicle of Romani stories about the COVID
crisis ever assembled. From the Introduction: The contributions
include memoirs, opinion essays, transcriptions of conversations or
interviews, ethnographic analyses, and a compelling short story by
Romani writer Iveta Kokyová, as well as pieces that stride the
boundaries between one or more of these genres, or that fit into
none.
This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to
global financial transformations and shifted their economic
practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. It also explores
their role as ethnic credit providers, offering rare insight into
the financial lives of poor and lower-middle-class Brazilians. More
broadly, this volume examines how ethnic difference is created in a
context where fixed and collective structures supporting ethnic
identity are missing. It is important reading for economic
anthropologists, cultural economists and all those interested in
processes of financialisation from a local perspective, as well as
those fascinated by informal economies, how exchange and debt
relate to social and political marginality, and how financial
credit becomes 'domesticated' by communities.
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