Gypsy and Traveller Ethnicity
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Caravan Sites
Caravan Sites Acts
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Contemporary Society
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Conventional Housing Market
cultural categorisation theory
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Ethical Entity
Gypsy Council
Gypsy Ethnic
Gypsy Identity
Gypsy Sites
housing
identity
Individuated Person
itinerant
Itinerant Groups
Itinerant Life Style
legislative impacts analysis
life
Material Considerations
minority rights policy
order
population
postwar housing research
Primordialist View
public
Public Order Act
Pure Gypsies
Romani studies
Site Provision
social construction of traveller identity
social identity formation
Traveller Ethnicity
Traveller Identity
travelling
Travelling Population
Unauthorized Encampments
Unauthorized Sites
Young Man
Youth Worker
Product details
- ISBN 9781138874497
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The book explores the notion of Gypsy and Traveller ethnicity and provides a critique of the conceptual basis of racial and ethnic categorisation. An analysis of the post-war housing situation is given in order to illustrate a connection between social and economic conditions, legislation affecting gypsies and travellers and the visibility and general consciousness of the gypsy and traveller population.
The originality of the book lies in its argument that the position of gypsies and travellers largely arises out of social conditions and interaction rather than political, biological or ideological determinants. It puts forward the notion of an ethnic narrative of traveller identity and illustrates how variations of this have been defensively deployed by some travellers and elaborated on by theorists.
Belton focuses on the social generation of travellers as a cultural, ethnic and racial categorization, offering a rational explanation of the development of an itinerant population that is less ambiguous and more informative in terms of the social nature of the gypsy and traveller position than interpretations based on 'blood', 'breed', 'stock', ethnicity or race that dominate the literature.
Brian A. Belton is Senior lecturer at the YMCA George Williams College, London. His research focuses on the nature of culture, race and ethnicity, and narrative/oral history, particularly in relation to sport/community.
