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Darkland, Fairyland, Gypsyland: ‘Gypsy’ Heterotopias and Barthesian Prestidigitation

Gaëtan Cognard

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

This article examines myths that have been disseminated through arts and culture about so-called “Gypsies”, confining them to “anti-worlds”. There is always a “glamour that enwraps the Gypsy race” (Sampson 1935a, 10). Romantics and some nineteenth-century writers considered them to be positive…

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Reclaiming Folk in Discourses about Music. Kotel Roma’s Strategies against Antigypsyism

Camilla Salvatore

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

This article analyses how Romani residents of Kotel, a small Bulgarian town presented by its municipality as a “model of [..] Roma integration” (Kotelnews 2022) challenges essentialist narratives that are rooted in antigypsyism. In particular, I observe how some of my interlocutors reappropriate…

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Old Blouses, Old Houses: Hauntings of Romani Slavery in the Production of Romanian Nationalism

Stefania Cotei

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

International organizations often hide under a veil of multiculturalism and inclusivity to enable neoliberal and nationalistic governmentalities in postsocialist Eastern Europe. In the context of UNESCO’s admittance of Romania’s hand-embroidered blouse on its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, I…

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Felix B. Chang and Sunnie T. Rucker- Chang. 2020. Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Eddie Bruce-Jones

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

book review

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Foreword

Dezso Mate; Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka; Iulius Rostas dkk.

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

Foreword to the thematic issue "Racism and Romani Studies"

Producing Knowledge from within

Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka; Dezso Mate

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

For centuries, the production of knowledge about Romani communities has been dominated by non-Romani scholars, institutions, and power structures. This monopoly has created a distorted and racialized understanding of Romani identity, history, and culture; an understanding that has profoundly shaped…

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Foreword

Dezso Mate; Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka; Iulius Rostas dkk.

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

Foreword to the thematic issue "Racism and Romani Studies"

‘Antigypsyism Does Not Exist’ and Other Assessments. Romani History by a Romani Historian Evaluated at the White Academy

Rafael Buhigas Jiménez

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

Romani Studies in Spain has yet to reach a satisfactory degree of development and faces many limitations within the Spanish Academy. To demonstrate this issue at hand, we will start with a special case: the challenge of writing the history of Roma as a Romani historian. Reconstructing Romani…

Beyond Tuition: Addressing Structural Barriers for Romani Students in Higher Education

Martina Boykova Drobenova; Ognyan Isaev

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

This article critically examines the effectiveness of Bulgarian national educational policies in promoting educational equity for marginalised Romani communities. While recent policy shifts toward reducing financial barriers to higher education represent a significant step toward increasing access…

Racialization of Roma, European Modernity, and the Entanglement of Empires

Lesia Pahulich

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

The article explores how anti-Roma racism results from the complex interplay of imperial histories and is influenced by racial thinking shaped by colonialism. Looking at the diverse primary and secondary historiographic resources about Romani people across Europe, the article shows how…

Discursive Exposures of Exclusion through the Figure of the Traitor

Nora Tyeklar

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

In this article, I present a historical conceptualization of the Hungarian-language term hazaáruló / traitor while contextualizing it within the emigration of Roma from Hungary to Canada and their subsequent return from Canada. I discuss how speakers emplace Roma in Hungarian society through the…

Iulius Rostas. 2019. A Task for Sisyphus: Why Europe’s Roma Policies Fail. Budapest: Central European University Press

Dóra Bogárdi

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

book review

Making the Invisible Visible – Roma in the Programme of European Capitals of Culture: From Marseille 2013 to Timișoara 2023

Calin Rus

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

The programme of Timișoara – European Capital of Culture 2023 included a component on “Deconstructing Stereotypes and Overcoming Marginalization of Roma Communities in Timișoara and Europe”, initiated and coordinated by the Intercultural Institute of Timișoara. This paper presents a comparative…

Charting New Frontiers in Democracy: A Romani Voice in Parliament

Ismael Cortés Gómez; Carmen Cañete Quesada

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

This interview features insights from Ismael Cortés, a scholar who spoke during the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Summer Abroad Program in Spain, which Carmen Cañete has directed for a decade. In Madrid on 7 July 2022, Cortés delivered a lecture on the portrayal of criminalised Spanish Roma…

Reclaiming the Narrative: A Critical Turn in Romani Studies

Diana Aburas

Critical Romani Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

This article explores the evolution of Romani Studies from a frequently stereotyped field that reified Romani people and fostered several grave misconceptions and biases, such as “Gypsies” are thieves, criminals, or beggars, to a more compounded and interdisciplinary academic field. Initial studies…