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The European Roma: minority representation, memory, and the limits of
transnational governmentality
van Baar, H.J.M.
Publication date
2011
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van Baar, H. J. M. (2011). The European Roma: minority representation, memory, and the
limits of transnational governmentality.
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Minority Representation, Memory
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Minority Representation, Memory and
the Limits of Transnational Governmentality
Huub van Baar
Since 1989, the situation of Romani minorities has increasingly been debated in the context of the changing social, economic, cultural, and political land-scapes in Europe. The fall of communism, the enlargement of the European Union, the neo-liberal restructuring of states, economies, and civil societies, and the resurgence of nationalism and extremism throughout Europe have re-sulted in a highly ambivalent situation. On the one hand, Romani minorities are faced with massive unemployment, discrimination, extreme poverty, and violence. On the other hand, we have seen the emergence of a heterogeneous Romani civil and social movement, as well as the development of large-scale, Europe-wide programs that aim at the Roma’s empowerment and the im-provement of their situation. How are we to assess these diverse develop-ments in regards to the way in which the Roma have increasingly been represented as a European minority?
In The European Roma, Huub van Baar combines insights from political and so-cial sciences with those from philosophy and cultural and postcolonial stud-ies to shed new light on the relationship between the representational histories of Europe and its Romani minorities. This book offers the first crit-ical investigation of how the Europeanization of the representation of the Roma interacts with new practices of governance in Europe. Van Baar mobil-izes a Foucauldian analytics of governmentality to examine shifting forms of Romani minority representation and self-representation. By so doing, he of-fers new perspectives on the formation of minority policy and politics, transnational activist and advocacy networks, and Romani memorial prac-tices in Europe.
Huub van Baar is a researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analy-sis (ASCA), Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam.
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