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dc.contributor.authorMarushiakova-Popova, Elena
dc.contributor.authorPopov, Veselin
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-04T15:30:02Z
dc.date.available2020-06-04T15:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-04
dc.identifier266451920
dc.identifier6a988951-b625-4a99-a8d4-d5d2e97be831
dc.identifier000539206300002
dc.identifier85090683357
dc.identifier.citationMarushiakova-Popova , E & Popov , V 2020 , ' ‘Letter to Stalin’ : Roma activism vs. Gypsy nomadism in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe before WWII ' , Social Inclusion , vol. 8 , no. 2 , 2777 , pp. 265-276 . https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i2.2777en
dc.identifier.issn2183-2803
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5333-2330/work/75248682
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-6565-8730/work/75248702
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20047
dc.description.abstractFrom the beginning, academic research on Gypsies in Western Europe has presented their nomadic way of life as their most important and essential feature, a key pillar of their community identity. Measures for their sedentarisation were perceived as a shackle in a chain of persecutions, and the policy of sedentarisation conducted in the 1950s–1970s in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe has continuously been interpreted as an example of the crimes of the communist regimes against the human and cultural rights of Roma. What has been missing, however, in these interpretations is the stance on the issue of nomadism as expressed by the Roma themselves and, more specifically, by the Roma civic elite: namely, by the Roma activists who initiated the Roma civic emancipation and created the first Roma organizations in the regions. In recent years, a need to critically re-think the field of Romani Studies in order to take into account the viewpoint of the studied community comes in the foreground of academic and civil society discussions. Such re-consideration is unavoidable also in studying the field of Roma history. This article strives to fill this knowledge gap and to initiate a new discussion about the issue of the so-called Gypsy nomadism. The viewpoints on this issue, coming from the Roma civic elite itself, are presented primarily on the basis of historical evidence from the interwar period, but are not limited to its framework. Finally, later historical developments in the issue of Roma activists’ approach to Gypsy nomadism will also be outlined, including its contemporary dimensions.
dc.format.extent22
dc.format.extent300131
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Inclusionen
dc.subjectCentral Europeen
dc.subjectEastern Europeen
dc.subjectGypsy nomadismen
dc.subjectInterwar perioden
dc.subjectRoma activismen
dc.subjectRoma organizationsen
dc.subjectD901 Europe (General)en
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subject.lccD901en
dc.title‘Letter to Stalin’ : Roma activism vs. Gypsy nomadism in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe before WWIIen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute for Transnational & Spatial Historyen
dc.identifier.doi10.17645/si.v8i2.2777
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumber694656en
dc.identifier.grantnumber694656en


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