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by Paloma Gay y. Blasco (Editor), Martin Fotta (Editor)
A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.
The contributors reveal how the pandemic has exacerbated Romani disenfranchisement and document the resilience and creativity with which Romanies have responded to the crisis. Deploying innovative textual formats, and including poignant personal reflections, memoirs, scholarly analyses, and diary excerpts, the volume provides a roadmap for collaboration and dialogue at a time of global emergency.
This is the most significant chronicle of Romani stories about the COVID crisis ever assembled.
From the Introduction:
The contributions include memoirs, opinion essays, transcriptions of conversations or interviews, ethnographic analyses, and a compelling short story by Romani writer Iveta Kokyová, as well as pieces that stride the boundaries between one or more of these genres, or that fit into none.
Author Biography
Martin Fotta is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. He is the author of From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). His current work explores transformations across the Romani diaspora of the Lusophone South Atlantic region.
