Romani Chronicles of COVID-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience

A ground-breaking book that chronicles the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities worldwide, featuring testimonies from NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers. The book reveals how the pandemic has exacerbated Romani disenfranchisement and showcases the resilience and creativity with which Romanies have responded to the crisis.

Format: Hardback
Length: 314 pages
Publication date: 14 July 2023
Publisher: Berghahn Books

A groundbreaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.

The contributors reveal how the pandemic has exacerbated Romani disenfranchisement and document the resilience and creativity with which Romanies have responded to the crisis. Deploying innovative textual formats, and including poignant personal reflections, memoirs, scholarly analyses, and diary excerpts, the volume provides a roadmap for collaboration and dialogue at a time of global emergency.

This is the most significant chronicle of Romani stories about the COVID crisis ever assembled. From the Introduction: The contributions include memoirs, opinion essays, transcriptions of conversations or interviews, ethnographic analyses, and a compelling short story by Romani writer Iveta Kokyová, as well as pieces that stride the boundaries between one or more of these genres, or that fit into none.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800738911