A conversation about Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research: Lessons from a Time of Crisis with its editors and authors.

Romano Džaniben journal, in collaboration with the Department of Mobility and Migration of the Institute of Ethnology, invites you to the next session in the seminar series "Romistické utópie":

Presentation of the book Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research: Lessons from a Time of Crisis (Bristol University Press, 2024) with its editors and authors.

Time: 15 May 2025, 18.00 CEST
Place: Etnologický ústav AV ČR, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1
Online: MSTeams

About the book:

The collection Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research: Lessons from a Time of Crisis published by the Bristol University Press in 2024 scrutinizes the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers face when working with and for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the context of global crises. Contributors assess the impact of the pandemic on their engaged research, evaluating novel methods and technologies. They reveal how current research practice blurs the borders between activism and scholarship, and they argue the need for innovative collaborations with local communities. Showcasing emerging aspects of GRT-related scholarship, this book makes a key contribution to larger debates on the positionality of researchers and the politics of research and affirms the continued value of rigorous ethnography.

Presenters:

• Paloma Gay y Blasco (editor) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.
• Martin Fotta (editor) is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology at the Czech Academy of Sciences
• Marco Solimene (author) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics of the University of Iceland.
• Iliana Sarafian (author) is a lecturer in medical anthropology at UCL.
• Stefano Piemontese (author) is a research fellow at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity of the University of Birmingham.

The publication of the book was supported by the NPO ‘Systemic Risk Institute’ no. LX22NPO5101, funded by European Union – Next Generation EU (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, NPO: EXCELES). Thanks to this funding, the book is published in open access and available here: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-oa/book/9781529231878/9781529231878.xml