Gypsy Economy

Author : Micol Brazzabeni,Manuela Ivone Cunha,Martin Fotta
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782388869

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Gypsy Economy by Micol Brazzabeni,Manuela Ivone Cunha,Martin Fotta Pdf

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.

Author : S. Fenton,H. Bradley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403919953

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Ethnicity and Economy by S. Fenton,H. Bradley Pdf

The nature of the connection between economic action and structure and ethnic identities receives here a long overdue and incisive re-examination. The question is addressed theoretically by revisiting the 'race and class' debate and by a wide-ranging review of the contexts in which the conjuncture of ethnicity-economy is worked out. It is also addressed empirically in a series of case studies of ethnically-defined groups and their articulation with the economy. A combination of established authors and new researchers have made an invaluable contribution to the field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271047518

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The Spanish Gypsy: The History of a European Obsession by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Barnard,Jonathan Spencer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
ISBN : 041509996X

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Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology by Alan Barnard,Jonathan Spencer Pdf

Providing a guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline, this volume discusses human social and cultural life in all its diversity and difference. Theory, ethnography and history are combined in over 230 entries on topics

Author : Sarah Houghton-Walker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191030161

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Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period by Sarah Houghton-Walker Pdf

In early eighteenth-century texts, the gypsy is frequently figured as an amusing rogue; by the Victorian period, it has begun to take on a nostalgic, romanticized form, abandoning sublimity in favour of the bucolic fantasy propagated by George Borrow and the founding members of the Gypsy Lore Society. Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period argues that, in the gap between these two situations, the figure of the gypsy is exploited by Romantic-period writers and artists, often in unexpected ways. Drawing attention to prominent writers (including Wordsworth, Austen, Clare, Cowper and Brontë) as well as those less well-known, Sarah Houghton-Walker examines representations of gypsies in literature and art from 1780-1830, alongside the contemporary socio-historical events and cultural processes which put pressure on those representations. She argues that, raising troubling questions by its repeated escape from the categories of enlightenment discourses which might seek to 'know' or 'understand' in empirical ways, the gypsy exists both within and outside of conventional English society. The figure of the gypsy is thus available to writers and artists to facilitate the articulation of dilemmas and anxieties taking various forms, and especially as a lens through which questions of knowledge and identity (which is often mutable, and troubling) might be focussed. .

Author : Alex Millmow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813369467

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The Gypsy Economist by Alex Millmow Pdf

This book offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark. Despite taking the economics world by storm with a mercurial ability for statistical analysis, Clark’s work has been largely overlooked in the 30 years since his death. His career was punctuated by a number of firsts. He was the first economist to derive the concept of GNP, the first to broach development economics and to foresee the re-emergence of India and China within the global economy. In 1945, he predicted the rise and persistence of inflation when taxation levels exceeded 25 per cent of GNP. And he was also the first economist to debunk post-war predictions of mass hunger by arguing that rapid population growth engendered economic development. Clark wandered through the fields of applied economics in much the same way as he rambled through the English countryside and the Australian bush. His imaginative wanderings qualify him as the eminent gypsy economist for the 20th century.

Author : Judith Okely
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521288703

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The Traveller-Gypsies by Judith Okely Pdf

The first monograph to be published on Gypsies in Britain using the perspective of social anthropology.

Author : Michael Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429975431

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The Time Of The Gypsies by Michael Stewart Pdf

HIS IS A STUDY OF HOW some of the most marginal and exploited people that exist can imagine themselves to be princes of the world.During the past two hundred years the Gypsies of Eastern Europe have faced near enslavement by land owners, the physical and moral onslaught of the Nazi holocaust, the fundamental challenge to their central values from the Communist state, and the violent discrimination and dislocation caused by the return to capitalism. One would have thought that the challenge would be too great, that they would have suffered cultural

Author : Zoltan D. Barany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0521009103

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The East European Gypsies by Zoltan D. Barany Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : Stephen Daniels,Roger Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317859215

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Exploring Human Geography by Stephen Daniels,Roger Lee Pdf

A lively and stimulating resource for all first year students of human geography, this introductory Reader comprises key published writings from the main fields of human geography. Because the subject is both broad and necessarily only loosely defined, a principal aim of this book is to present a view of the subject which is theoretically informed and yet recognises that any view is partial, contingent and subject to change. The extracts selected are accessible and raise issues of method and theory as well as fact. The editors have chosen articles that not only represent main currents in the present flow of academic geography but which are also responsive to developments outside of the discipline. Their selection contains a mixture of established and recent writings and each section features a contextualizing introduction and detailed suggestions for further reading.

Author : Deema Kaneff,Kirsten W. Endres
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800731400

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Explorations in Economic Anthropology by Deema Kaneff,Kirsten W. Endres Pdf

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology, but also featuring contributions from sociology and history. The chapters engage with debates at the cutting edge of research on the topics of Eurasia, the anthropology of postsocialism and the embeddedness of economic practices.

Author : Martin Fotta,Paloma Gay y Blasco
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529231878

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Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research by Martin Fotta,Paloma Gay y Blasco Pdf

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This collection scrutinizes the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers face when working with and for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the context of global crises. Contributors assess the impact of the pandemic on their engaged research, evaluating novel methods and technologies. They reveal how current research practice blurs the borders between activism and scholarship, and they argue the need for innovative collaborations with local communities. Showcasing emerging aspects of GRT-related scholarship, this book makes a key contribution to larger debates on the positionality of researchers and the politics of research, and affirms the continued value of rigorous ethnography.

Author : Keith Hart’s
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785335600

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Money in a Human Economy by Keith Hart’s Pdf

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unbanked and remittances in the South, cross-border investment in China, the payments industry and the politics of bitcoin); and cases from 19th century India and Southern Africa to contemporary Haiti and Argentina. Money is one idea with diverse forms. As national monopoly currencies give way to regional and global federalism, money is a key to achieving economic democracy.

Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191080517

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Gypsies by David Cressy Pdf

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.

Author : John D. Conroy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800739680

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Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development by John D. Conroy Pdf

The idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development’. It originated from Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German, British, Australian and Dutch – this book recounts Hart’s effort in 1972 to introduce the informal ‘sector’ into development planning in Papua New Guinea. This was problematic, because ‘the market’ was scarcely institutionalized, and traditional modes of exchange persisted stubbornly. Rather than conforming with post-colonial economic ideology, the subjected people pushed back against imposed bureaucracy to practice informal and hybrid modes of economic activity.