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The politics of unbelonging : understanding and challenging racialisation of Roma in Europe and beyond / Andreja Zevnik and Andrew Russell.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Zevnik, Andreja, author.
Russell, Andrew T., 1945- author.
Series:
European politics.
European Politics
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Romanies--Europe--Race relations.
Romanies.
Romanies--Europe--Social conditions.
Romanies--Social conditions.
Belonging (Social psychology)--Political aspects--Europe.
Belonging (Social psychology).
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) : tables, charts; digital file(s).
Place of Publication:
Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.
Language Note:
In English.
System Details:
data file
Biography/History:
Andreja Zevnik is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester
Andrew Russell is a Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool
Summary:
The book offers a study of Roma racialisation. Through the idea of unbelonging it demonstrates how the community is placed in a position of visceral visibility by local, national and international institutions and media discourses. It critically evaluates how the unbelonged position impacts Roma's self-representation and political mobilisation.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright information
Contents
Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the politics of unbelonging
Chapter 1: Between belonging and unbelonging: a conceptual framework
Identity: a practice of exclusion and belonging
The politics of belonging
The nation-state and the politics of belonging
Nationalism, myths and cultural belonging
New identities and overlapping belongings
What does it mean to unbelong?
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Roma and European unbelonging
Introduction: European Roma
a nation in excess?
Europe's strategic approach to 'the Roma problem'
The First EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies (2011-20)
The Second Framework (2020-30)
Evaluation of National Roma Strategic Frameworks and Member States' responses
European unbelonging
Tomáš and Floyd
Stanislav Tomáš: no Czech Floyd?
Chapter 3: How a state makes its Roma unbelong
The demography of Slovenian Roma
Principles of reserved representation
Constitutional unbelonging: how Slovenia created a special category of exclusion for Roma representation
Roma as a constitutional oddity
Asymmetric representation and rights
Electoral unbelonging: how Roma liminality is extended to Slovenian politics
2022 election: the parties' views on reserved representation for Roma
2022 election: the parties' views on Roma topics
Chapter 4: Unbelonging in the public gaze: media representations of Roma
Historical/established representations of Roma unbelonging
Critical junctures and populist moments to reaffirm unbelonging: COVID-19 and war in Ukraine
Roma and the war in Ukraine
Slovenian media representations of Roma
case studies in unbelonging
The 2005 firebombing of Roma settlements
The Ambrus incident 2006
The Grosuplje wall, 2016
The 2022 Černelavci Bar Ban
Media coverage of Roma stories in Slovenia
Methodology
Money and children
The social bomb
Crisis moments and incidents
A Roma is a Roma
Believable tales?
Chapter 5: Racialisation and deservedness: organising community belonging from within
Autochthony: the politics of drawing lines
Racialisation and deservedness as a form of the politics of belonging amongst the Slovenian Roma
Desiring to belong: self-representation as an expression of belonging
Chapter 6: Changing the frame of belonging: from the racialised Other to becoming Roma
Roma as a constitutive outside of European nation-building
Whiteness: from the inconvenience to the (im)possibility of belonging
Nativism and liminal whiteness of the European Roma
'Performing' belonging
Chapter 7: Romani institutions: performing a nation without a territory
Notes:
Building a Romani nation
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and online publication, viewed 3 June, 2025.
ISBN:
1526183536
9781526183538
1526183552
9781526183552
OCLC:
1518279282

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