Constructing Identities over Time

Jekatyerina Dunajeva is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest.

"Where the book by Jekatyerina Dunajeva differs from others is in its combination of historical and ethnographic study, in the richness of the material explored and analysed and in the ways in which it problematizes the very labels it analyses. The key strength of the book lies in its attempt to offer new and critical perspectives in the study of Roma identity and Roma ethnicity, over time. It thus provides a wonderful addition and contribution to the field of Romani Studies, while also being of interest to scholars of ethnicity, nationalism, European history and minorities more broadly."https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2078390

• AcknowledgmentsPART I. IntroductionChapter 1.: Author's PurposePersonal NoteRoma and Romani StudiesNotes on MethodologyStructure and Subject of the BookChapter 2: Theories and Concepts—State, Nation, and IdentitHomogenization Efforts During State and Nation BuildingManaging the Population and Classifying IdentitiesComparative and Historical Study: Roma in Hungary and Russia throughout TimePART II. Bad Gypsies and Good Roma in Historical PerspectiveChapter 3: Early Nation and State Building in EmpiresEarly State and Nation Building: Control over the "Other"Enduring "Backwardness"Chapter 4: The End of EmpiresThe End of Empires: World War One and the 1917 RevolutionSoviet Nativization Policiies in te 1920s and '30sHungary After the Treaty of TrianonA Note on the HolocaustChapter 5: State Socialism (1945–1989)Assimilationist CampaignsPolitical Education in State-Socialist SchoolsCategorization of Roma: Legacies of Socialist Identity Politics and Critical VoicesPART III. Contemporary Identity FormationChapter 6: FieldworkFieldwork and PositionalityEthnography: Ethics, Reflexivity, and PositionalityChapter 7: "Bad Gypsies"—Negotiation of Identities in Primary SchoolsNeo-Modern State Building: National Revival and Patriotic YouthBad Gypsies in Segregated SchoolsDisciplining Bad Gypsies in ClassroomsReproducing and Contesting StereotypesChapter 8: Making Good Roma from Bad GypsiesContemporary AntigypsyismPro-Roma Civil Society's Roots, Goals, and ProjectsNegotiation of Identity and Non-state ActorsChapter 9: Negotiating IdentityIdentity StrugglesIdentity and BelongingKinship and Community PART IV. Concluding RemarksChapter 10: Summary and Best PracticesBest PracticesReferencesIndex