Reflections on #Roma #Research and #Activism by Andrew Ryder
Reflections on #Roma #Research and #Activism by Andrew Ryder http://bit.ly/1PWC8I7
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In this guest blog Andrew Ryder argues for collaborative and inclusive approaches to Roma research to ensure that community voices are heard and taken into account.
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Relationships between researchers and the researched is one of the key dividing lines of debate within knowledge production, Romani Studies is no exception to this rule. For a significant period the discipline known as Romani Studies has been dominated by outsider researchers who, in the traditions of the Gipsy Lore Society, have valued narrow notions of objectivity and emphasised the importance of positivist distance from the researched, and the primacy of professional expertise. In a commodified research environment contracted and adlected expertise translates into academic prestige and status, in the process though it could be argued that in fact the academy has at times lost its critical objectivity producing tepid research which has failed to challenge and has filled a vacuum for policy makers who should have been more reliant on dialogue and engagement with actual Roma communities.
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