List of compulsory readings1:
Week 1 (16 February 2004): Introduction to the course and terminology (Petra Zhřívalová)
Week 2 (23 February 2004): History, and general introduction about Roma, values, family (Petra Zhřívalová)
Fraser, Agnus (1995) The Gypsies, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.10-32 (Origins); Reader 1-12
Okely, Judith (1983): The Traveller – Gypsies. Cambridge: CUP, pp.1-27 (Chapter1: Historical categories and
representations); Reader 13-26
Liegeois, Jean-Pierre (1994) Roma, Gypsies, Travellers. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, pp 29-42 (Ch. 2:
Populations); Reader 27-34
Iliev, Ilia (1997) “Somebody like you: images of Gypsies and Yoroks among Pomaks (Bulgarian Muslims)” in Acton,
Thomas (ed) Gypsy politics and Traveller identity. Hatfield:UHP, pp.54-60; Reader 35-38
Ringold, Dena et al. (2003) Roma in an Expanding Europe. Breaking the poverty cycle. Executive Summary. A
world bank Study, June 2003, 24 p.* www.worldbank.org/eca/roma; Reader 39-40 (only coverpage)
UNDP (2003) Avoiding the dependency Trap. The Roma in Central and Eastern Europe, UNDP*. (Summary or any
of the 8 chapters) http://roma.undp.sk; Reader 40a-40b
Week 3 (1 March 2004): Legislative framework: international instruments (Ilona Klímová)
Liegeois, Jean-Pierre (1994) Roma, Gypsies, Travellers. Strasbourg: Council of Europe. pp 273-290 (International
organisations); Reader 41-50
EC/2000/43 – article on internet
Rooker, Marcia (1997) "Monitoring Human Rights: The Importance of the Universal Level for Roma and Sinti"
CPRSI Newsletter, February 1997, vol.3, no. 1, pp. 3-10,
http://www.osce.org/odihr/documents/periodicals/cprsi3-1.pdf.
Week 4 (8 March 2004): The transnational Romani social movement (Ilona Klímová) or Access to Justice (Anna
Červeňáková)
Sobotka, Eva (2003). “Roma, Public Policy and Ethnic Mobilisation in National and Transnational Context.” Paper
presented to the 53rd Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association (University of Leicester UK, 15-17
April), http://www.psa.ac.uk/cps/2003/Eva%20Sobotka.pdf.
Vermeersch, Peter (2001) “The Roma in domestic and international politics: an emerging voice?” Roma Rights, no.
4: 5-13, http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2001/noteb1.shtml.
The Romani movement: what shape, what direction?, Roma Rights, no. 4 (2001),
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2001/noteb3.shtml.
Week 5 (15 March 2004): Roma and international organisations (Ilona Klímová)
Martin Kovats (2001) “The Emergence of European Roma Policy.” In Guy, ed. Between Past and Future: the
Roma of Central and Eastern Europe. Hartfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 93-116; Reader 51-62
Week 6 (22 March 2004): Roma in Former Yugoslavia (Selma Muhic)
ERRC: Profile of One Community: A Personal Document Survey among the Romani Population of Kumanovo,
Macedonia.Narrative project report of the Romani organisation Roma Community Center DROM.
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3_2003/noteb3.shtml
Week 7 (29 March 2004): Taking forward a framework for Equity and Rights: meeting policy, practice and public
demands (Rowena Arshad)
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Materials marked with * are not suitable for AQCI
Week 8: (5 April 2004): Representations of Roma and issues of racism and discrimination (Laura Laubeová)
Okely, Judith (1997) “Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity. The place of the intellectual”. In
James, Alisson et al. (eds) After Writing Culture. Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology.
London: Routledge, pp.224-243; Reader 63-72
Hancock, Ian (2000) “The Consequences of Anti-Gypsy Racism in Europe” in Other Voices. The (e)Journal of
Cultural Criticism, v. 2, n.1 (February 2000), http:// www.othervoices.org/2.1/hancock/roma.html
Morris and Clements (1999): Gaining Ground: Law reform for Gypsies and Travellers, UH Press, pp. 59-64 and 6971 (Over-arching issues); Reader 73-80
Week 9: (12 April 2004): Educational policies towards the Roma (Laura Laubeová)
The ERRC letter to Dr. Petra Buzková of 26 March 2003; Reader 81-82
Liegeois, Jean-Pierre (1998): School Provision for Ethnic Minorities: The gypsy paradigm. 175-198 (Pedagogy);
Reader 83-91
Cahn, Claud , Chirico, David, et al.(2002): “Roma in the educational systems of Central and Eastern Europe”. In
Cahn, Claud (ed.) Roma Rights: Race, Justice and Strategies for Equality. Amsterdam- New York: IDEA. 71-85;
Reader 92-99
Laubeová, Laura (2002): “Inclusive School - Myth or Reality”. In Cahn, Claud (ed.) Roma Rights: Race, Justice and
Strategies for Equality. Amsterdam- New York: IDEA. 86-95; Reader 100-104
ERRC (1999): A special remedy. Roma and schools for the mentally handicapper in the Czech Republic, (chapter
3: Roma and schooling in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia), pp. 15-21, http://errc.org/publications/reports/;
Reader 105-108
Week 10 (19 April 2004): Easter holiday
Week 11 (26 April 2004): Romani migration (Eva Sobotka)
Lee, Ronald (2000) “Post-Communism Romani Migration to Canada. In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
Volume XIII/2. Spring/summer 2000, pp. 51-70; Reader 109-118
Week 12 (3 May 2004): Roma in the Czech Republic (Laura Laubeová)
Guy, Will (2001) “The Czech lands and Slovakia: another false down?” In Guy, ed. Between Past and Future: the
Roma of Central and Eastern Europe. Hartfield: University of Hertfordshire Press. 285-332; Reader 119-139
Powel, Chris (1997) “Razor blades amids the velvet” In: Acton, Thomas (ed) (1997) Gypsy politics and Traveller
identity. Hatfield: UHP, pp. 90-99; Reader 140-144
Week 13 (10 May 2004): Discussion-cum- seminar and/or remaining oral presentation by students
Barany, Zoltan (2002) The East European Gypsies. Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics. Cambridge:
CUP, pp. 282-324 (State Institutions and Policies towards the Gypsies;) Reader 145-159
Laubeová, Laura (2001)” The Fiction of Ethnic Homogeneity: Minorities in the Czech Republic” in Bíró, A.M. and
Kovács, P (eds) Diversity in Action, Budapest. LGI/OSI, pp.47-73; Reader 160-177