First steps towards regional planning for Gypsy and Traveller sites in England:
            <i>Evidence-based planning in practice</i>

Niner, Pat; Brown, Philip

doi:10.3828/tpr.2009.15

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“…The report linked living beside industrial estates, refuse tips, or sewage works to Gypsy perceptions of the way in which society viewed them and to a heightened sense of alienation. Such statistics have been confirmed more recently (Niner, 2003). Against such a background, it is not surprising that Gypsies and Irish Travellers are more prone to ill-health; that levels of prenatal mortality, still births, and infant mortality are significantly higher than the national average; and that estimates suggest that on average, Gypsy and Irish Traveller women live 12 years less than women in the general population and Gypsy and Irish Traveller men 10 years less than men in the general population (Crawley, 2003).…”

Section: Gypsies In the United Kingdom: Social And Educational Contextsupporting

confidence: 57%

“…Estimates suggest that there are between 90,000 and 120,000 Gypsies1 in England living in caravans (Niner, 2003), though a further 3 times that number might be living in houses (Ivatts, 2005). 2 Gypsies have been residing in the United Kingdom for the past five centuries, for much of that time, operating on the margins of society (Fraser, 1995).…”

Section: Gypsies In the United Kingdom: Social And Educational Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Literacy in English Gypsy Communities: Cultural Capital Manifested as Negative Assets

Levinson

2007

American Educational Research Journal

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The attribution of low literacy levels among Gypsy children to difficulties of access to schools neglects underlying sociocultural explanations. There has been little analysis in reports/studies of Gypsy attitudes toward literacy, nor of outcomes of acquisition. Informed by new literacy theory and by the discourse of previous ethnographic studies, and by acculturation theories, this article draws on findings from an ethnographic study of English Gypsies (1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000), and data from a follow-up study, involving original and additional participants (2005)(2006). The article explores attitudes across age groups, highlighting social reasons for resistance to literacy, and argues that policy makers should consider effects on group membership and ways in which formal literacy can constitute a mechanism for disempowerment. KEYWORDS: acculturation, group boundaries, Gypsies, integration, literacy A n ontological perspective regards learning as constituting issues of identity as well as knowledge, and inevitably, this involves social identification (Lave, 1993;Packer, 2001;Wenger, 1998). Often perceived as a means of empowering the disempowered, the commitment of educators to improve literacy levels of individuals from marginalised groups tends to overlook the wider social and cultural repercussions. At the same time, it also serves to reify schooled notions of literacy, when literacy actually needs to be considered in its wider social, cultural, historical, economic, and political contexts (Barton, 1994;Gee, 2000). American Educational Research JournalWinter 2007, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 1-35 MARTIN P. LEVINSON is a lecturer at the School of Education, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, Devon, England, EX1 2LU; e-mail: m.p. Levinson@exeter.ac.uk. His research background is in ethnographic investigation of marginal groups. His work crosses disciplinary boundaries, drawing on theories from education, cultural studies, sociology, social psychology, and anthropology. His interest in the area of Gypsy/Romani studies arose from professional experience teaching in mainstream (secondary) schools, as well as from extensive traveling, during which time he came into contact with Roma groups.

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Section: Gypsies In the United Kingdom: Social And Educational Contextsupporting

confidence: 57%

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confidence: 99%

Literacy in English Gypsy Communities: Cultural Capital Manifested as Negative Assets

Levinson

2007

American Educational Research Journal

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“…Through "plenty of talk about the meaning of the information, its accuracy and its implications", as Innes (1998, page 56) puts it, meaning has been formulated and reformulated in a process in which different understandings of the information have come to the fore. This aspect of planning underlines politicisation and agonism as core aspects of the influence that knowledge has had on decision making as multiple voices serve to create new understanding and learning about the case studies (Mouffe, 2005;Niner and Brown, 2009;Rose, 1999;Rydin, 2010).…”

Section: Civil Society Actors: the Coupling Of Mobilisation And Knowlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Handling Tensions in the ‘Everyday Landscape’: Moving beyond the Development—Conservation Conflict?

Hofstad¹

2015

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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This paper brings new insight on practices that enable planning processes concerning urban green landscapes (everyday landscapes) to move beyond the somewhat deadlocked conflict between conservation and development. The empirical basis is four planning processes in N orway and Sweden illuminating the following research questions: How is the tension between densification and conservation in everyday landscapes handled in concrete planning processes? Is it possible to identify practices that create opportunity for viable com prom ises between development and conservation interests? The analysis identifies the core position o f expert knowledge in creating a basis for compromise in political processes. Furtherm ore, green structure as a coherent and basic entity in planning is emerging as a decisive force in local discourse held by the civil society, public authorities, and developers alike. I argue that these elements contribute to create viable compromises on the future development of everyday landscapes, thus functioning as building bricks in creating m ore agonistic planning practices.

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“…In addition, through the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order (CJPO) Act, Gypsy Travellers’ private camping was criminalized and restricted (Drakakis-Smith 2007). Gypsy Travellers’ mobile lifestyles became largely dependent on the local authorities’ willingness to offer camping sites and local populations’ willingness to accept them (Powell 2008; Niner and Brown 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

To Whom God Speaks: Struggles for Authority through Religious Reflexivity and Performativity within a Gypsy Pentecostal Church

Voiculescu

2012

Sociological Research Online

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By limiting Gypsy Travellers’ mobility, the state has restricted their subjectivities and their mobile lifestyles. In this context, Pentecostalism, an egalitarian doctrine based on the privatization of relations with God, creates new spaces for Gypsy Travellers’ self-expression, and further premises for their ethnic and cultural revivalism. Through a symbolic interactionist approach, this paper argues that Gypsy Travellers obtain individual authority through religious reflexivity and performativity. It examines ethnographically the inter- and intra-personal religious conversations among believers in a Gypsy Pentecostal church in Edinburgh, UK. It shows the ways in which Gypsy Travellers use internal dialogues with God and symbolic interactions with significant others in the church as means of self-expression. God is the relational conversational partner and facilitates the believer's self-mediation. It is the symbolic interface and signifier who can delegate authority to believers or preachers. Through the process of self-mastery, the practitioners of religious reflexivity gain control over themselves and perform authority in front of others. Thus, internal dialogues and symbolic interactions become the important experiential domains of a complex dramaturgy of Gypsy believers’ struggles for individual and collective authority.

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First steps towards regional planning for Gypsy and Traveller sites in England: Evidence-based planning in practice

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Literacy in English Gypsy Communities: Cultural Capital Manifested as Negative Assets

Literacy in English Gypsy Communities: Cultural Capital Manifested as Negative Assets

Handling Tensions in the ‘Everyday Landscape’: Moving beyond the Development—Conservation Conflict?

To Whom God Speaks: Struggles for Authority through Religious Reflexivity and Performativity within a Gypsy Pentecostal Church

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