LEADER 03925nam 2200709 450 001 9910465965303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a963-386-115-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000900164 035 $a(EBL)4716198 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4716198 035 $a(OCoLC)960506102 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51082 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4716198 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11281001 035 $a(OCoLC)961059552 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000900164 100 $a20161020h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aThose who count $eexpert practices of Roma classification /$fMihai Surdu 210 1$aBudapest, Hungary ;$aNew York, New York :$cCentral European University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a963-386-114-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEpistemic and political classifications -- Ethnicity theories and research practices -- Disciplinary traditions in the study of Roma -- Ethnicity inscriptions in census and surveys -- Influencers of academic and expert discourse about Roma -- Case studies on Roma-related discourse -- Visual depictions of Roma in expert publications. 330 2 $a"The book scrutinizes the scientific and expert practices of Roma classification in a historic perspective focusing on the expert discourses that gave rise to Roma-related policies in the last two decades. Epistemic communities that classify and describe Roma obey the commandments of political regimes in power, to the disciplinary research traditions and to the organizational interests. The resultant of knowledge subordination is a negative Roma public image that creates and reinforce stereotypical views held by the society at large. Case studies and thorough examples in the book show that both the census as an administrative and scientific practice, as well as policy related surveys are crafting Roma identity in an essentializing manner. The census reifies Roma by the use of mutually exclusive categories and by post-codification of data while the surveys do so by unfounded representativeness claims. Roma are relegated by the experts to several types of determinism: to a social category, to a frozen culture and to a biologized entity. The recently reemerged scholarship in Roma-related genetics imported classifications and narrations created in the fields of social sciences and contributed to circulation of bio-historical narratives that singularize, pathologize and exoticize Roma"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aRomanies$xGovernment policy 606 $aRomanies$xResearch 606 $aEthnicity$xGovernment policy$zEurope 606 $aClassification$xPolitical aspects$zEurope 606 $aClassification$xSocial aspects$zEurope 606 $aCensus$xPolitical aspects$zEurope 606 $aSocial surveys$xPolitical aspects$zEurope 606 $aRomanies$xPublic opinion 606 $aStereotypes (Social psychology) 606 $aPublic opinion$zEurope 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRomanies$xGovernment policy. 615 0$aRomanies$xResearch. 615 0$aEthnicity$xGovernment policy 615 0$aClassification$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aClassification$xSocial aspects 615 0$aCensus$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aSocial surveys$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aRomanies$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aStereotypes (Social psychology) 615 0$aPublic opinion 676 $a323.11914/97 700 $aSurdu$b Mihai$0882012 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465965303321 996 $aThose who count$91970237 997 $aUNINA