Ecomic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. Authors explore these complexities, including how ecomic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how ecomic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how ecomic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite - or perhaps because of - their unstable and ambiguous position within the market ecomy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable ecomic strategies. The ethgraphically based chapters share accounts of socially and vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Berghahn Books
ISBN-10
1782388796
ISBN-13
9781782388791
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220647921
Product Key Features
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences: Textbooks & Study Guides
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Oxford
Edited by
Manuela Ivone Cunha, Micol Brazzabeni, Martin Fotta
Series Part/Volume Number
3
Date of Publication
30/11/2015
Series Title
The Human Economy
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Social Sciences: Textbooks & Study Guides
Author Biography
Micol Brazzabeni is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CRIA-IUL, Lisbon. She is the author of La Scuola di Carta (2008) and a co-editor of Etudes Tsiganes, Special Issue Emotion and Place (2012). Manuela Ivone Cunha is a Professor at the University of Minho and a Senior Research Fellow at CRIA-UMinho. She has authored and edited several publications on the social and penal management of social vulnerability. Martin Fotta is a Lecturer of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent. He is working on a book focusing on money-lending practices of Calon Gypsies of Bahia, Brazil.