Cultural Institutions as a Combat Sport. Reflections on the European Roma Institute

Magazzini, Tina

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“…1 1 I closely followed the "making-of" of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, attending workshops, open and closed discussions, and following online forums about its inception, a process which is described in detail in the article Cultural Institutions as a Combat Sport. Reflections on the European Roma Institute (Magazzini, 2016). I encountered the Expatriate Archive Centre in The Hague in 2017 at the International Metropolis Conference, a network that has hosted an international conference concerning research and policy on human migration annually since 1996.…”

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In the Eye of the Beholder? Minority Representation and the Politics of Culture

Magazzini

2021

IMISCOE Research Series

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The debate(s) on the relationship between art, activism and academia is as old as knowledge-production itself. In keeping with this volume’s focus on reflexivity and representation, this contribution asks what role filmmakers, curators and artists play as knowledge producers and as knowledge-brokers when working on politicized issues such migration and/or ethnicity. This chapter looks at three European experiences that sit on the seam of curatorial practice, testimony and activism and address the (visual) narratives of minority groups. Exploring the emergence of these initiatives and drawing upon interviews with the curators and artists behind them, this chapter takes stock of ongoing debates on the complex relationship between political and artistic representation on minority groups. Adopting Mitchell’s (1995) approach to representation that sees it as always being ‘of someone, by someone, to someone’, particular attention is given to the implications of what kind of stories are told, for whom they are told, and of who does the storytelling.

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In the Eye of the Beholder? Minority Representation and the Politics of Culture

Magazzini

2021

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“…Their construction and experience as "Roma" are shaped by ethno-cultural, as well as by different national, European and international policies and scientific expertise (Sigona andVermeersch 2012: 1190). EU policies and scientific expertise also provided the basis on which the "Roma subject" and, more generally, Roma populations were created discursively and materially as particularly vulnerable and socially troubled groups (Vermeersch 2012;Surdu 2016;Magazzini 2016). In the context of my research, the discourse and related technologies can be understood as providing tools for knowledge production, for perceiving heterogeneous incidents and individuals as a particular "phenomenon" or "group", for performing and legitimizing related social practices (e.g.…”

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The Stilled-Other of the Citizen. “Roma Beggars” and Regimes of (Im)mobility in an Austrian City

Raithelhuber

2019

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The chapter looks into the socio-material production and regulation of the ethnopolitical figure of the "Roma beggar" through the prism of a regime-of-(im)mobility approach. Based on an ethnographic study, core aspects of this regime for "Roma beggars" are analysed on a micro-scale: criminalizing transport, invisibilising borders, educating beggars, victimization, stillness and deportability. The study investigates the everyday social and physical infrastructures and logistics for (im) mobility, imaginaries of (im)mobility and discursive technologies. It shows how a differentiated, rationalized knowledge on "them" is produced. "Roma beggars" are constituted as an epistemic object and policy target, legitimizing the unequal treatment of people in the name of security. The related regime-of-(im)mobility derives its effectiveness precisely from its in-built arbitrariness and inconsistency. The key insight is that the "stilled, able beggar" is the only legitimate form of begging in the light of a community of good and able citizens. As this figure is practically unrealizable and deceptive, it flips into the "Roma beggar". The chapter concludes that this "stilled-Other of the citizen" is a discursively activatable and materially stabilized aspect of the Otherness operating within the concept of citizenship itself. Hence, the regime-of-(im)mobility for "Roma beggars" turns out to be an integral part of regimes that enable differential movements and forms of (im)mobile existences among all kinds of people.

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“…7 Angela Merkel: 'multiculturalism has utterly failed', October 2010; David Cameron: 'muscular liberalism against passive tolerance', February 2011; Manuel Valls: 'Roma lifestyles as "clearly in confrontation" with French ways of life', September 2013.8 French scholar Jean-Paul Fitoussi described communitarianism in a 2008 article as follows: 'The temptation of communitarianism, which the French have debated for at least a decade, comes from the wish to turn the failure of "genuine" equality into something positive. It offers integration by default within the differentiated space of various communities -a sort of imprisonment by civilization'(Fitoussi, 2008).9 Vertovec's 2007 Super-diversity and its implications is currently the most cited article in Ethnic and Racial Studies' history.10 On the debate on the construction of a political identity of the Roma, and whether we should think in terms of one or multiple minorities, seeMagazzini, 2016; Surdu, 2015. 11 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.…”

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Making the most of superdiversity: notes on the potential of a new approach

Magazzini¹

2020

Superdiversity, Policy and Governance in Europe

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This chapter begins by problematising the relationship between identity and difference as a way to rethink the dimensions and fluidity that superdiversity consists of. It provides a brief background of the debate on the death (or serious illness, or rebranding) of multiculturalism. The chapter then locates the specificities of superdiversity. It suggests the adoption of a superdiversity approach in the drafting of guidelines on diversity management such as the Common Basic Principles for Immigrant Integration Policy in the European Union (Council of the European Union, 2004) and the Action Plan on the Integration of Third Country Nationals (European Commission, 2016). The Roma minority(ies) in Europe serves as a useful case study to exemplify how superdiversity can help us depart from the dominance of ethnicity as the main category for identity policy without negating its relevance, in order to encourage the development of inclusive policies towards minority groups and neighbourhoods that take into account multiple variables.

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Cultural Institutions as a Combat Sport. Reflections on the European Roma Institute

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

In the Eye of the Beholder? Minority Representation and the Politics of Culture

In the Eye of the Beholder? Minority Representation and the Politics of Culture

The Stilled-Other of the Citizen. “Roma Beggars” and Regimes of (Im)mobility in an Austrian City

Making the most of superdiversity: notes on the potential of a new approach

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