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SUMMARY:Romani studies in the age of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:Doctoral students, Romani and non-Romani scholars will reflect upon ways the pandemic has impacted scholarship, at this event convened by Dr Martin Fotta, Czech Academy of Sciences, and Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco, University of St Andrews.    The Covid-19 pandemic is having a devastating effect on Romani communities worldwide. The emergency has fed on the fragility of Romani lives, exacerbating already existing patterns of disenfranchisement—racial scapegoating, national security spectacles, and a closing-off of Romani neighbourhoods.    Scholars have engaged with these challenges, collaborating with relief efforts, engaging the media, writing dispatches and op-eds. These activities have been new to many, blurring the borders between activism and scholarship, between action and reflection. The field and the questions scholars ask have shifted, existing forms of knowledge production have been questioned, and new forms of solidarity have emerged.    Collaborative contributions with Romani interlocutors, contributions from scholars of Romani background, from doctoral students and others reflect upon ways the pandemic has impacted Romani-related scholarship.    They explore these questions:    • How has the pandemic impacted ongoing or planned research projects? How were they adapted? How have the constraints (e.g., travel bans, lockdowns) made researchers attentive to new dynamics and seeded novel methodological approaches?  • How has the pandemic changed theoretical conceptualisations? How has it led to directions not imagined at the outset? What new questions have become relevant and meaningful?  • What forms of engagement in ‘the field’ has the context of the pandemic demanded from researchers? What new forms of collaboration have emerged? How will they shape the future scholarship?  • How is research in the context of the pandemic shaped by demands to decolonise scholarship (even in Central and Eastern Europe) and by the need to support the struggle of communities against anti-Gypsyism?  • How can social science shape priorities in the post-pandemic world? How do scholars help ensure that voices of affected Romani communities are represented and their needs visible?    The event is free, but you will need to register through Eventbrite. https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/romani-studies-in-the-age-of-covid-19/
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/romani-studies-in-the-age-of-covid-19/
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