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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schneeweis, Adina

Titel

Power, Gender, and Ethnic Spaces: Geographies of Power in Roma Communities

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of communication inquiry, 2016-01, Vol.40 (1), p.88-105

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study examines the inextricable (and understudied) link between ethnicity, gender, power, and space, to assess how gender and power relations operate in, and mark, the ethnic spaces of one community of Roma in Romania. Drawing from ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with Romani women who work as health mediators, this article identifies and theorizes the negotiated meanings that arise among the mediators’ roles and spaces. I argue that perceptions of the mediators’ power roles change between institutional landscapes (spaces of hegemonic directives), Romani communities (conceived space where the women have symbolic control), and the lived space of resistance and internalized discrimination; the latter is both an active constituent of, and a challenge to, racism against the Roma.