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Author_Iliana Sarafian
bureaucracy
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childbirth
children
children's homes
communism
controlling the past
education
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forgetting
forthcoming
Gender
hierarchies
history
home
hyperreal
Identity
inclusion
inequality
kinning
memory
method
moral demands
non-governmental
non-Roma
parents
positionality
post-communism
post-socialism
preconceptions
Roma children
Roma elite
Roma inclusion
Roma marriage
Romani studies
schooling
state care
Product details
- ISBN 9781807581381
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and non-Roma, state and non-state, public and private. It explores topics resonating in contemporary Romani studies that are in need of further exploration through individual perspectives, including history, activism, kinship, childhood, and gender hierarchies. The book paints a complex picture of inequality and how it is negotiated amid conflicting, ambiguous and contradictory regimes of power and moral demands, including those of state and kin.
Iliana Sarafian is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Public Authority and International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is currently conducting research on minority and migrant health and wellbeing in Italy and the United Kingdom.
