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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823728803321

Autore

Szeman Ioana

Titolo

Staging citizenship : Roma, performance, and belonging in EU Romania / / Ioana Szeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-78533-731-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 195 pages)

Collana

Dance and performance studies ; ; Volume 11

Disciplina

305.8914/970498

Soggetti

Romanies in mass media

Culture conflict - Political aspects - Romania

Performing arts - Political aspects - Romania

Romanies - Romania - Social conditions

Romania Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 ‘We Will Build a Beautiful Future Together’: NGO Historiography, Roma Culture and Monoethnic Nationalism -- Chapter 2 Living in the Citizenship Gap: Roma and the Permanent State of Emergency in Pod -- Chapter 3 Too Poor to Have Culture? The Politics of Authenticity in Roma NGO Training -- Chapter 4 Performing Bollywood: Young Roma Dance Cultural Citizenship -- Chapter 5 Consuming Exoticism/Reimagining Citizenship: Romanian Nationalism and Roma Counterpublics on Romanian Television -- Chapter 6 The Ambivalence of Success: Roma Musicians and the Citizenship Gap in Romania -- Conclusion Unlearning the Forgetting -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and



dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with government agencies, author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and neoliberalism in her subjects' remarkably varied lives and experiences.