CHALLENGES IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE ROMA
Lectures - Prof. Bálint-Ábel Bereményi
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
• Lecture 1: 25 February at 11:20-13:00, Room P3
Anthropological perspectives on the Roma in Spain
Themes: A) Who are the Spanish Gitanos? From "subjects of urban marginality" to "objects of
social policies". Anthropological perspectives on the Roma in Spain; B) Colombian Roma make
themselves known: a peculiar ethno-political process. Questioning the thesis of the
uselessness of the invisibility.
Readings: (Sílvia Carrasco & Bereményi, 2011; Gamella, 2002; Gay y Blasco, 2001; Gómez
Fuentes, Gamboa Martínez, & Paternina Espinosa, 2000; Laparra & Macías, 2009;
Marushiakova & Popov, 2011)
• Lecture 2: 25 February at 13:00-14:30, Room P4
Anthropology of public policies
Theme: How ethnography and anthropological understanding can challenge a positivist view of
policy. The Spanish Roma and the Colombian Roma case.
Readings: (Bereményi & Mirga, 2012; Bereményi, 2013; Horowitz & Salem-Murdock, 1991;
Shore & Wright, 1997; Wedel & Feldman, 2005; Wedel, Shore, Feldman, & Lathrop, 2005)
• Lecture 3: 27 February at 9:40-11:20, Room P3
Anthropology of education.
Theme: Models that allow a wider comprehension of the "Roma schooling issue".
Readings: (Abajo & Carrasco, 2004; Bereményi, 2011; Silvia Carrasco, 2004; D. E. Foley,
1997; D. Foley, 2004; Luciak, 2004; Ogbu & Simons, 1998)
• Lecture 3: 27 February at 13:00-14:30, Room P4
Collaborative research, participation, representativeness, empowerment and other
methodological and ethical dilemmas: Legitimating discourses, disempowering practices.
Investigating Roma policies, working for/with Roma people.
Readings: (Cleaver, 2001; Gaventa, 2004; Hickey & Mohan, 2004; Kóczé & Rövid, 2012;
Miraftab, 2004)