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Romani women at the edge of neoliberal Europe

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Romani women at the edge of neoliberal Europe reveals how EU inclusion policies often reproduce structural violence, limiting Romani women’s opportunities. Drawing on ethnographic research, it expl...
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Romani women at the edge of neoliberal Europe explores how Romani women navigate racialized poverty, gendered inequality, and neoliberal restructuring across Europe. Based on long-term ethnographic research, it argues that EU inclusion frameworks – despite promises of emancipation – often reproduce structural violence, limiting political, social, and economic possibilities. Through case studies from Hungary and beyond, the book examines paradoxes of activism, strategies of survival, and the emotional and political labor required in hostile institutional landscapes. It highlights how women transform marginality into resistance and solidarity, calling for a reimagined vision of inclusion grounded in justice and lived realities.
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Price: £85.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Theory for a Global Age
Publication Date: 14 July 2026
ISBN: 9781526197023
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / European Studies, Political activism / Political engagement, Gender studies: women and girls

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Angéla Kóczé is Associate Professor, Chair of Romani Studies, and Academic Director of the Roma Graduate Preparation Program at Central European University in Budapest and Vienna.

Introduction: Connected histories, theories, and methodologies: A reflexive approach to Romani women’s activism
1 The historical legacy of Romani womanism and motherism in 1990s post-socialist Europe
2 Radical margins: The silenced genealogies of Romani feminism
3 Empowering discourses and oppressive structures: Romani women and the politics of development
4 Living the contradictions: Romani women and the developmental politics of everyday life
5 Commodified flesh: Racialized expropriation and the politics of bodily survival
Concluding note: Toward a radical ethics of Romani feminist futures
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