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*Anthropology of East Europe Review - Special Issue on Roma and Gadje*
*Location:* 	United States
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CALL FOR PAPERS: For a special issue of the Anthropology of East Europe
Review on Roma and Gadje, scheduled for Fall 2007. We are seeking papers
that consider the ways Romani individuals and communities negotiate,
resist and reproduce the places Roma occupy in the social and political
contexts of non-Romani spheres, as well as sociological analyses of the
lifeworlds and counterpublics of Roma in Eastern Europe.

As a liberal order consolidates throughout the Eastern European region,
Roma everywhere are taken up either as (to borrow a term from Saidiya
Hartman) the “imaginative surface” of the woes of postsocialism or as a
romanticized remnant of a bygone past. Roma seem to exist in the shadow
of culture – timeless, errant and enchantingly Other – while the social
worlds they inhabit are circumscribed by their intensifying economic and
spatial marginalization and the continued pathologization of their
behavior as inadaptable and often criminal. The historical roots of such
stereotyping run deep and resonate powerfully in our particular moment:
the Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikán/Cigany Other continues to function within
discussions of transnational European identities, even as these
discourses claim a complete break with the ethnonational identities of
the past. Gadje, in turn, are rarely, if ever, explicitly implicated in
the public figurations of difference through which Romani and Gadje
identities are mutually constituted and that set the terms of much of
the scholarly and activist engagement with Romani lives.

We seek contributions that situate their analysis within this specular
constitution of otherness in specific historical, political and social
milieux. How are individual Roma and Gadje interpolated by the dynamic
and shifting boundaries that inform the dialectics of identity? What are
the micro-physics of the negotiations along this border, and how do they
sustain the production of difference? How are the ambiguities and
indeterminacies encountered along these borders stabilized and made
commensurate in acts of recognition (or rejection) of otherness? And how
does the figuration of Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikan/Cigany difference
symbolically secure the emergent political orders in the eastward
progression of “Europeanization?”

Contributions might address visual culture, the entanglements of power
and visibility, and the spectacularization of
Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikan/Cigany difference, or the processes of
subjectivization, the implications of the pervasiveness of the
Zigeuner/Tigani/Cikan/Cigany Other for the Romani self, its embodiments,
its practices of self-knowledge and self-care, or the poetics and
aesthetics of Romani resistance and dissimulation and attendant issues
of performativity. Interdisciplinary contributions reflecting sustained
ethnographic or archival engagement with Romani communities in Eastern
Europe are particularly welcome. Yasar Abu Ghosh, Krista Hegburg, and
Shannon Woodcock, the guest editors, would especially like to encourage
activists, scholars from the region, and junior scholars, including
post-fieldwork graduate students, to contribute to this volume. Papers
should not exceed 10,000 words and must be submitted by May 15 for
consideration for fall publication. A limited number of contributions
may be translated; please contact the editors in advance of submission
for further information.

	Krista Hegburg
Department of Anthropology
452 Schermerhorn Ext.
Columbia University
New York, New York 10027
USA

Email: kmh55 at columbia.edu <mailto:kmh55 at columbia.edu>

Visit the website at http://www.columbia.edu/~kmh55/cfp.html
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