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Those Who Count: Expert Practices of Roma Classification
Mihai Surdu
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Description for Those Who Count: Expert Practices of Roma Classification
Hardcover. This is a broad panorama about the representation of Roma in official and academic documents of the past few decades. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFSL; JHB; JHMC; JMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 167 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
Those Who Count scrutinizes the scientific and expert practices of Roma classification and counting, and the politics of Roma-related knowledge production. The book takes a historical perspective on Roma group construction, both as an epistemic object and a policy target, with a focus on the expert discourse of the last two decades. The book argues that knowledge production on Roma is neither objective nor disinterested but rather is co-produced by political and academic actors driven by organizational interests with rather narrow disciplinary research traditions, as well as by political manifestos. The result of such co-production is a negative Roma public image ... Read more
Those Who Count scrutinizes the scientific and expert practices of Roma classification and counting, and the politics of Roma-related knowledge production. The book takes a historical perspective on Roma group construction, both as an epistemic object and a policy target, with a focus on the expert discourse of the last two decades. The book argues that knowledge production on Roma is neither objective nor disinterested but rather is co-produced by political and academic actors driven by organizational interests with rather narrow disciplinary research traditions, as well as by political manifestos. The result of such co-production is a negative Roma public image ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Central European University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
527g
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789633861141
SKU
V9789633861141
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About Mihai Surdu
Mihai Surdu was a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at Central European University, postdoctoral research fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and fellow of the Open Society Roma Initiatives. Presently, he is working on a project related to population thinking and categorization in life sciences at the Chair in Science and Technology ... Read more
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