Kontinuity a diskontinuity v transnacionálním sociálním poli  na příkladu margovanských Romů

Ort, Jan; Dobruská, Petra

doi:10.21104/cl.2018.2.01

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“…Today, the attractiveness of the topic is fading, and while Czech anthropological journals still include articles on Roma communities, there is much less work in this area than there was during the first decade of the century. Most contemporary works deal with the issue of Roma identity construction, poverty, life in socially excluded locations (e.g., Brožovičová, 2017; Ort, 2021; Shivariová et al., 2021; Vavroch, 2014), and the conversion to Pentecostalism among Czech and Slovak Roma who migrated to England (Doležalová, 2017; Ort & Dobruská, 2018).…”

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Comrades and spies

Hřešanová

2023

American Ethnologist

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When Czechs consider their involvement in the global colonial system, they usually imagine themselves as the victims of Soviet imperial power. This is the case among those Czech anthropologists whose research under state socialism was tightly circumscribed. But focusing on this history alone enables Czech scholars to obscure their nation's participation in “colonialism without colonies” and to maintain presumptions of “colonial innocence.” In fact, Czechs themselves imposed internal colonialism on the Roma and on people living in the country's sub‐Carpathian region. Some Czech scholars are increasingly reflecting on Czech colonialism, but others still perceive the decoloniality debate as a Western import in the postsocialist era. Nonetheless, anthropology's decolonizing projects may offer ways forward, helping us understand how Cold War imaginaries persist in academia.

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Section: Resarch With Romamentioning

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Comrades and spies

Hřešanová

2023

American Ethnologist

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The presentation of social status on a social network: The role of Facebook among the Vlax Romani community of Eastern-Slovak origin in Leicester, UK

Hajská

2019

Romani Studies

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Praying through the pandemic: Religion, uncertainty, and care

Doležalová

2021

Romani Studies

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Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Roma Pentecostal converts in England continued to meet for religious gatherings and communal prayer, either outdoors or in private homes of church members, despite measures put in place by the British government that limited the number of social contacts between individuals and at times forbade visiting other households. Among the members of the Life and Light church are many who belong to one of the high-risk categories for complications from Covid-19. Why would converts take part in activities that involved increased risk of virus transmission and increase their possibility of getting ill? This paper draws on informal online and in-person conversations with Roma that took place during the summer and autumn of 2020 and reflects on religion and communal prayer as a strategy of coping with the heightened uncertainty brought by the pandemic. It argues that participating in religious meetings where people jointly pray for others, both those who present and those who are absent, is an intangible form of care that helps to forge, shape, and maintain social relationships and creates a sense of belonging and continuity. In addition, praying is an embodied expression of one’s relationship to a transcendental entity, Jesus, and of placing oneself into the caring hands of God and Jesus. Lastly, the Church provides material support for members who are in a difficult financial situation. Participating in Church activities like prayer meetings is an expression of belonging to a religious collectivity and can help gain access to this material help in situations when access to state-provided care and material support is limited or absent, thus opening for church members the possibility of tangible forms of care. The paper looks at the role of religion in dealing with the uncertainty that Roma migrants experience when dealing with the state and going about their everyday lives and the upheaval and increased uncertainty brought by the pandemic.

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Kontinuity a diskontinuity v transnacionálním sociálním poli na příkladu margovanských Romů

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Comrades and spies

Comrades and spies

The presentation of social status on a social network: The role of Facebook among the Vlax Romani community of Eastern-Slovak origin in Leicester, UK

Praying through the pandemic: Religion, uncertainty, and care

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