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A Reflexive History of the European Romani Gender Politics: Debates on Intersectionality as a Tool for Political Resistance

Europe (Central and Eastern)
Citizenship
Civil Society
Gender
Social Movements
Women
Political Activism
Solidarity
P002
Geetha Marcus
University of Glasgow

Building: Géopolis, Floor: 2, Room: 2227

Thursday 12:30 - 14:15 CEST (08/06/2017)

Abstract

In this panel, our aim is to provide critical reflections on the Romani gender politics in Europe in the last two decades. We bring to the forth the role that Romani gender politics plays in shaping political agenda along major tensions and alliances around gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class. The presentations will link the examination of how gender inequality informed, shaped, and transformed the agenda of the Romani movement. We address how various forms of inequalities interact and compose larger structures of hierarchies and exclusions. The authors will reveal how Romani women and LGBTIQ activists translate structural inequalities into political struggles by explaining the transformation of multiple differences into inequalities, defining their own sphere of action (e.g. as activism, service provision, or politics), and initiating and/or taking part in institutional forms of action as well as in informal arrangements with various ties to the wider Romani, LGBTIQ and women’s movements. In the presentations, we will talk about frames that enable a reconceptualization of politicized Romani identities and the ways Romani LGBTIQ movement has been looking at ways of ‘decolonising’ knowledge-production. Further, we will look into the difficulty to build a Cali feminist movement in an anti-Gypsyist, patriarchal institutional and neoliberal logics driven Spanish context as well as impact of Spanish Gitanas’ and black feminisms on Eastern European Romani women’s activism. We will also explore discourses of Romani men and non-Romani feminists and their connection with specific national and transnational contexts. The authors will combine cross-disciplinary reflections and conceptual tools of gender studies, social movement studies, citizenship, neoliberal state, NGOization, and Romani politics and participation inquiries. In our work, we focus on different sites and actors in the knowledge production, which results in a collaborative thinking and writing of Romani and non-Romani activists and scholars.

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