
Gypsy Economy
Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
- 272 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Gypsy Economy
Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
About this book
Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic 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 economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity.
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Table of contents
- Gypsy Economy
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction – Gypsy Economy
- Chapter 1 – Usury among the Slovak Roma – Tomáš Hrustič
- Chapter 2 – New Redistributors in Times of Insecurity – Judit Durst
- Chapter 3 – A Way of Life Flowing in the Interstices – Sara Sama Acedo
- Chapter 4 – 'Endured Labour' and 'Fixing Up' Money – Jan Grill
- Chapter 5 – 'I Go for Iron' – Marco Solimene
- Chapter 6 – 'I'm Good but also Mad' – Gergő Pulay
- Chapter 7 – The Mechanisms of Independence – Martin Olivera
- Chapter 8 – Deceit and Efficacy – Florencia Ferrari
- Chapter 9 – Houses under Construction – Cătălina Tesăr
- Chapter 10 – Exchange, Shame and Strength among Calon of Bahia – Martin Fotta
- Chapter 11 – 'Give and Don't Keep Anything!' – Nathalie Manrique
- Afterword
- Index