Romano džaniben
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description: Aims and scope Since its founding in 1994, Romano džaniben is the only professional periodical in the Czech Republic that is systematically focused on the language, history and culture of the Roma in the broadest sense of the word. Romano džaniben publishes scholarly articles on Roma from around the world (including articles by Romani scholars) and reviews of current Romani literature; some of its issues are monothematic. At the same time, it pays attention to the voice of Roma, publishing memoirs, essays, profile interviews with Roma artists and other personalities, and samples of their work. It is published twice a year with a volume of approximately 180 pages in print (300 copies) and online. Open access policy Since 2022, the journal has been published under an open-access model. All articles are immediately available online for free to read, download, and share. The articles are published under a CC BY 4.0 license, which allows for the use, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction of the articles across all media, provided that the original work is properly cited. History of the journal The journal was established in 1994 in Prague by a group of Czech Romani studies experts, including Hana Šebková, Edita Žlnayová, Zbyněk Andrš, Ruben Pelar, and Milena Hübschmannová, the founder of Romani Studies as a university program in CR (Charles Universtiy, Prague, since 1991) and the prominent figure of Czech post-war Romani studies as an academic discipline. Hübschmannová became the leading figure in the development of the journal (she hold the post of the editor-in-chief since 1994 until her death in 2005). Since then a number of Hübschmanová’s disciples were involved in leading the edition office of the journal, including Peter Wagner, Jana Kramářová and Eva Zdařilová. Since 2011 the editorial office is headed by Pavel Kubaník and Helena Sadílková. The journal is published by the organization Romano džaniben, twice a year. Since 2010, the journal is included on the l…
publisher: Romano džaniben, z. s.
language: en
publication name: Romano džaniben
issn: 1210-8545
items: „Nejsi tím, za co nás gádžové označují…“
items: Černý motýl – Odvaha být sama sebou
items: Pavel Kubaník (Ed.): Paramisa: Pohádky a příběhy romských vypravěčů z bývalého Československa
items: Theater – Where Worlds Converge and a Window into the Romani Soul. Introduction to the Photo Supplement
items: Manushe: 25 Years of Empowering Romani Women’s Voices
items: The life and work of Anna Danielová with regard to her professional career in UGR, namely in the Commission of former CC prisoners and in the Commision of women
items: „You go out and you hear it and this calls you, this is the mother tongue.“ Kotel Roma women‘s metadiscourses on language.
items: Defining antigypsyism as part of the fight for Roma rights in the Slovak Republic
items: „Somas sar diliňi savorestar, so pregejľom“ / „Z toho všeho, čím jsem si prošla,ocitla jsem se na pokraji svých sil“
items: A poem by Vlado Oláh (Východná, 1986): “Savore Roma le Gruskaske”
items: Iulius Rostas: A task for Sisyphus: Why Europe's Roma policies fail
items: Enikő Vincze, Cornel Ban, Sorin Gog a Jon Horgen Friberg (Eds.): The political economy of extreme poverty in eastern Europe. A comparative historical perspective of Romanian Roma
items: Filippo Bonini Baraldi: Roma Music and Emotion
items: Ukázka z básnické tvorby
items: "Amen sam d'ande nacie le Gaboronengi" (My jsme z národa Gaborů)
items: From margin to margin: The depiction of Roma in Romanian cinema after 1989 -- A historical overview
items: Mazanost a zlý svět. Novinář a jeho doktorát o manele
items: Immoral Daughters and Innocent Patriarchs. Gender and Romani Ethnicity in State Socialist Romania. Two cases studies
items: Roma in/of Romania: A Brief Overview
items: Aby měly romské děti co číst / Sedm knížek pro děti a mládež
items: Jiří Smlsal: Holokaust a majetková perzekuce Romů v protektorátu Čechy a Morava
items: Sveto Biblija Andre Romaňi Čhib / Romaňi Biblija. O névo zákonos. Džas le Devleskere dromeha.
items: Celia Donertová: Práva Romů: Boj za občanství v poválečném Československu
items: E romaňi čhib ča barola - kada hin perdal ma realita / Romština se bude jistě dál rozvíjet - to je pro mne realita
items: Spomienky na počiatky môjho zapojenia do hnutia za práva Rómov
items: Revisiting the interpretation of the term "nation". Responses to the silencing of civil language and the language of "homeland" as a common home
items: Addressing the situation of Roma in Slovakia in 1989--2020 through the idea of a comprehensive approach and Romani participation in its development and definition
items: Roma as actors in negotiating housing policies during state socialism. The case study of Podunajské Biskupice and Plavecký Štvrtok (1950--1989)
items: Editorial
items: Zilli Schmidt (/Zilli Schmidtová): Gott hat mit mir etwas vorgehabt! Erinnerungen einer deutschen Sinteza / Bůh se mnou měl nějaký plán! Vzpomínky německé Sintky

„Nejsi tím, za co nás gádžové označují…“
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description: BOOK REVIEW Margareta Matache The permanence of anti-Roma racism: (Un)uttered sentences Routledge, 2025, 380 s., ISBN 9781041049982
subject: book reviews and annotations
  topic: section
creator: Maria Georgiana Dumitru
creator: Eva Nováková
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Georgiana Dumitru (Autor); Eva Nováková (Překladatel) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 159
ending page: 163
doi: 10.66576/1egdev95

Černý motýl – Odvaha být sama sebou
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description: BOOK REVIEW Kiba Lumberk Černý motýl. Kher, 2024, 160 stran, ISBN 978-80-87780-45-9
subject: book reviews and annotations
  topic: section
creator: Marie Koval
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marie Koval (Autor) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 153
ending page: 158
doi: 10.66576/9f0rjt08

Pavel Kubaník (Ed.): Paramisa: Pohádky a příběhy romských vypravěčů z bývalého Československa
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description: BOOK REVIEW Pavel Kubaník (Ed.) Paramisa: Pohádky a příběhy romských vypravěčů z bývalého Československa Argo, 2023, 285 s., ISBN 978-80-257-4233-4
subject: book reviews and annotations
  topic: section
creator: Klára Soukupová
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Klára Soukupová (Autor) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 149
ending page: 152
doi: 10.66576/qx0knc16

Theater – Where Worlds Converge and a Window into the Romani Soul. Introduction to the Photo Supplement
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description: This text serves as an introduction to a photographic supplement documenting contemporary Romani theater in the Czech Republic over the past decade. Through selected productions and projects, it illustrates how Romani theater bridges professional and community practices, reflects historical memory and current social issues, and creates a space for sharing experiences and engaging in dialogue with the audience. Special attention is given to the Theater of the Oppressed and the growing involvement of Romani artists on established stages, which contributes to greater visibility of Romani perspectives and to the development of theater as a tool for social change, empathy, and critical reflection.
subject: unreviewed section
  topic: section
subject: Roma theatre
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subject: community art
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subject: Theatre of the Oppressed
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subject: Roma communities
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subject: cultural representation
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subject: social issues
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subject: audience participation
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subject: identity and memory
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creator: Renata Berkyová
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Renata Berkyová (Autor) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 117
ending page: 120
doi: 10.66576/kkqrzm08

Manushe: 25 Years of Empowering Romani Women’s Voices
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description: This article presents the development and activities of the Romani women’s group Manushe, which has been working for more than 25 years to empower Romani women in Czech society through education, community work, and civic participation. The text traces the evolution of the issues the group has addressed—from promoting self-confidence and education, through professional advancement and political participation, to current activities focused on preventing domestic and gender-based violence. Special attention is given to a study conducted in 2024 among 500 Romani women, which, thanks to the trust built within the communities, yielded valuable insights into the prevalence of violence, its perception, and strategies for addressing it. The results show that domestic violence is a serious and often long-term problem that needs to be discussed openly, while also confirming the key role of community initiatives in identifying and addressing it.
subject: unreviewed section
  topic: section
subject: Manushe
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subject: Roma women
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subject: gender-based violence
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subject: domestic violence
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subject: community work
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subject: women’s empowerment
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subject: participatory research
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subject: Roma communities
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subject: civic participation
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subject: violence prevention
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creator: Claudie Laburdová
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Claudie Laburdová (Autor) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 97
ending page: 103
doi: 10.66576/t78qa821

The life and work of Anna Danielová with regard to her professional career in UGR, namely in the Commission of former CC prisoners and in the Commision of women
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description: The article focuses on the historical personality of Anna Danielová (1921–1999). Based on archival research, it examines the prerequisites that the talented student applied first in her education and later in her professional career. A graduate of a business academy, she was employed in the civil service as an accountant and also as a personnel officer. The article explores the exceptional strength of Danielová’s personal commitment with which she drew on her professional competencies to improve the quality of life of Romani people in Czechoslovakia. Danielová’s life story is thus interconnected with other personalities among the Romani actors who have repeatedly opened a dialogue with the power structures of Czechoslovakia since the end of World War II. The legacy of Anna Danielová's life's work places this woman among the important Romani female personalities in the 20th century.
subject: peer-reviewed section
  topic: section
subject: Union of Gypsies-Roma (UGR)
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subject: Romani holocaust
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subject: compensation for victims
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subject: women
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subject: Czechoslovakia
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subject: Roma activism
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creator: Milada Závodská
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Milada Závodská (Autor) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 59
ending page: 93
doi: 10.66576/g1drbm45

„You go out and you hear it and this calls you, this is the mother tongue.“ Kotel Roma women‘s metadiscourses on language.
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description: This article is based on a six-months ethnography at the “Center for work with street children” in Kotel - a small town in Bulgaria, presented by its municipality as an “example of understanding and integration of the Roma”. Sharing their daily tasks, I had the opportunity to observe how my Romani colleagues shift between using Bulgarian, the official language of the country, and Romani. When I asked them to explain how and why these shifts occurred, I discovered an “epilinguistic tension” (Canut, 1998) between adherence to the official norm and their desire to use their mother tongue. In this text, I describe how their meta-discourses about language refect the effects of linguistic policies and ideologies in past and present Bulgaria and two contrasting language ideologies related to notions of nationality, race/ethnicity, and citizenship. Adhering to the Center policy of using only Bulgarian but also expressing their desire to use their “mother tongue ” , my interlocutors are living an unresolved tension between assimilation and resistance, homogenization and emancipation.
subject: peer-reviewed section
  topic: section
subject: Roma
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subject: Bulgaria
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subject: epilinguistic discourses
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subject: language ideologies
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creator: Camilla Salvatore
creator: Martin Babička
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Camilla Salvatore (Autor); Martin Babička (Překladatel) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 27
ending page: 58
doi: 10.66576/p563qj44

Defining antigypsyism as part of the fight for Roma rights in the Slovak Republic
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description: Antigypsyism is a specific form of racism that is perpetrated against Romani men and women in order to stigmatize, dehumanize and legitimize the violence that is perpetrated against them in various forms. Antigypsyism is based on historical forms of discrimination, prejudices and stereotypes. The structural form of antigypsyism has an impact on the successful integration of Romani men and women into society, reinforcing marginalisation. The article analyses structural forms of antigypsyism in its historical context and in state policies. At the same time it provides an insight into the development of a definition of antigypsyism in Slovakia which has become part of the Concept for combating radicalisation and extremism until 2024 and the Strategy for Roma equality, inclusion and participation until 2030. An important factor in the adoption of the definition in the national concept was the systematic work of the civil sector, which was influenced by European initiatives. The author of the article was part of the working group that developed the definition of antigypsyism.
subject: peer-reviewed section
  topic: section
subject: Antigypsyism
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subject: Roma
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subject: inclusion
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subject: non-profit sector
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subject: advocacy
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subject: participation
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creator: Zuzana Havírová
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zuzana Havírová (Autor) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 7
ending page: 25
doi: 10.66576/b0bprr56

„Somas sar diliňi savorestar, so pregejľom“ / „Z toho všeho, čím jsem si prošla,ocitla jsem se na pokraji svých sil“
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description: Ilona Ferková’s short story sheds light on the issue of domestic violence, which a young Romani woman had to endure at the hands of her husband. Through a vivid narrative rich in dialogue, we learn about the adverse conditions in her husband’s family—even as a child, he witnessed domestic violence against his mother when his father returned home intoxicated. He then behaves just as aggressively toward his wife, and it even escalates to a serious violent attack in which he severely scars her face.
subject: unreviewed section
  topic: section
subject: romská literatura
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subject: romská rodina
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subject: násilí
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creator: Ilona Ferková
creator: Lada Viková
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ilona Ferková (Autor); Lada Viková (Překladatel) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 104
ending page: 115
doi: 10.66576/7yhv8c93

A poem by Vlado Oláh (Východná, 1986): “Savore Roma le Gruskaske”
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description: This discovery report presents a previously unpublished poem by Vlado Oláh from 1986, found in the archives of Viliam Ján Gruska. The poem was written immediately after the premiere of the groundbreaking program Ľudia z rodu Rómov at the folklore festival in Východná and captures the powerful atmosphere of the Romani cultural revival of that time. The text is presented within a broader cultural-historical context, and the poem is analyzed as a significant document of Romani ethno-emancipation, collective identity, and solidarity among the Romani people in the second half of the 1980s, and is presented as a collective manifesto. A substantial part of the text is devoted to commemorating the figures who signed this poem, as well as mapping out the possible circumstances under which it was handed over to Viliam Ján Gruska.
subject: unreviewed section
  topic: section
subject: Vlado Oláh
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subject: Východná 1986
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subject: Ľudia z rodu Rómov
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subject: Romani literature
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subject: cultural emancipation
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subject: Gruska
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creator: Lada Viková
creator: Zbyněk Andrš
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Lada Viková, Mgr. Zbyněk Andrš, Ph.D. (Autor) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 121
ending page: 145
doi: 10.66576/tqh9fp25

Iulius Rostas: A task for Sisyphus: Why Europe's Roma policies fail
type: item
description: RECENZE KNIHY
subject: book reviews and annotations
  topic: section
creator: Ana Ivasiuc
creator: Martin Babička
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 123
ending page: 126

Enikő Vincze, Cornel Ban, Sorin Gog a Jon Horgen Friberg (Eds.): The political economy of extreme poverty in eastern Europe. A comparative historical perspective of Romanian Roma
type: item
description: RECENZE KNIHY
subject: book reviews and annotations
  topic: section
creator: Remus Creţan
creator: Martin Babička
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 127
ending page: 130

Filippo Bonini Baraldi: Roma Music and Emotion
type: item
description: RECENZE KNIHY
subject: book reviews and annotations
  topic: section
creator: Ondřej Skovajsa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 117
ending page: 121

Ukázka z básnické tvorby
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description: Text představuje život a tvorbu Sorina A. Sandua – významného romského herce, básníka a překladatele z Rumunska. Shrnuje jeho divadelní a televizní působení, důraz na prosazování romštiny v umění i médiích a významné kulturní projekty, včetně první profesionální romskojazyčné inscenace Caragialeho Bouřlivé noci. Přibližuje také Sanduovu básnickou a překladatelskou činnost, jež zahrnuje bilingvní sbírky a převody rumunské i světové literatury do romštiny. Aktuální vydání přináší výběr z jeho debutové sbírky Transgresiune ve třech jazykových verzích.
subject: unreviewed section
  topic: section
creator: Sorin Aurel Sandu
creator: Michal Mižigár
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 101
ending page: 113

"Amen sam d'ande nacie le Gaboronengi" (My jsme z národa Gaborů)
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description: Studie se zaměřuje na subetnikum rumunských Romů známé jako Gaborové. Vychází z autentického rozhovoru nahraného v romské kolonii v Brašově roku 2002 a zasazuje jej do širšího historického, sociolingvistického a antropologického kontextu. Text představuje původ, sebeidentifikaci a sociální charakteristiky Gaborů, zejména jejich endogamii, výrazné vizuální a kulturní identity (klobouky, tradiční oděv), profesní zaměření na obchod a klempířské řemeslo, jakož i jejich příklon k adventismu sedmého dne. Analýza ukazuje, jak se Gaborové odlišují od ostatních romských skupin prostřednictvím vlastního etnonyma a přísných komunitních norem, a jak utvářejí obraz „čistého“ a pracujícího národa v kontrastu ke stigmatizujícím stereotypům. Studie rovněž dokumentuje jejich mobilitu, obchodní trasy a ekonomické strategie, včetně účasti na protestním mítinku v Brašově, který představoval významný projev kolektivní emancipace. Příspěvek tak přináší komplexní pohled na současnou identitu, sociální organizaci a kulturní praxi Gaborů v Transylvánii.
subject: unreviewed section
  topic: section
subject: adventismus sedmého dne
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subject: endogamie
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subject: Gaborové / Roma Gabor
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subject: kulturní odlišnost
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subject: obchodní mobilita
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subject: sociální organizace Romů
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subject: subetnická identita
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subject: Transylvánie
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creator: Zbyněk Andrš
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 85
ending page: 100

From margin to margin: The depiction of Roma in Romanian cinema after 1989 -- A historical overview
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description: This essay outlines a concise history of Romanian cinema over the last three decades, in relation to the cinematic representation of the Roma, one of Romania's largest ethnic minorities. Starting with the scarcity of representations of Romani characters in Romanian cinema until the fall of the socialist regime, a phenomenon that indirectly reflects the systematic marginalization and discrimination of this minority in Romania, the analysis focuses on films produced after 1989 that reproduce, reinterpret or renegotiate local and stereotypical images of Romani ethnic groups. These filmic representations are then interpreted and classified from a diachronic perspective.
subject: peer-reviewed section
  topic: section
subject: Romanian cinema;
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subject: representation of ethnic minorities;
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subject: Roma minority;
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subject: inclusion;
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subject: discrimination
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creator: Radu Toderici
creator: Jiřina Vyorálková
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 45
ending page: 74
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17735964

Mazanost a zlý svět. Novinář a jeho doktorát o manele
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description: Studie Adriana Schiopa představuje kulturně-antropologický výklad hudebního žánru manele a jeho proměn od pozdního socialismu po současnost. Autor sleduje, jak se manele z původně marginalizované „turecké hudby“ staly v osmdesátých letech symbolem mladistvého vzdoru a diskurzu protikladného vůči zkostnatělému oficiálnímu popu Ceaușescovy éry. V postsocialistickém období žánr na čas mizí do undergroundu, kde jej zásadně proměňují zejména romští hudebníci a kde vzniká subžánr bagabonțesc, zaměřený na tematizaci mazanosti, života na hraně zákona, okázalé spotřeby a rodinné loajality. Na přelomu tisíciletí však manele opět vstupují do mainstreamu díky tanečnímu „liftingu“ a stylové kompatibilitě s globální popkulturou. Následná celospolečenská morální panika (2003+) je podle Schiopa živena orientalistickým dědictvím, elitářstvím rumunské inteligence a rasistickými předsudky vůči Romům. Autor analyzuje i důležité tematické okruhy žánru – oslavu mazanosti, bohatství, rodinné soudržnosti a narativ „zlého světa“ charakterizovaného nedůvěrou a strategiemi přežívání v podmínkách dravého kapitalismu. Text završuje přehled nedávného vývoje směrem k trapanelám, kde se manele propojují s rapem a estetikou kriminality v digitální době.
subject: unreviewed section
  topic: section
subject: bagabonțesc
  topic: keywords
subject: kulturní antropologie
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subject: manele
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subject: morální panika
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subject: orientalistický diskurz
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subject: populární kultura
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subject: postkomunismus / postsocialismus
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subject: romská hudba
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subject: trapanele
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subject: urbanita a marginalita
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creator: Adrian Schiop
creator: Jiřina Vyorálková
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 77
ending page: 84

Immoral Daughters and Innocent Patriarchs. Gender and Romani Ethnicity in State Socialist Romania. Two cases studies
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description: This article explores how gender and Romani ethnicity intersected within the patriarchal structures of Romanian state socialism through two case studies separated by three decades. The first concerns a 14-year-old Romani girl institutionalized as a "juvenile delinquent" after reporting sexual abuse by her foster father in 1951. The second examines a woman who, in 1981, denounced her violent Romani husband to the Securitate for political crimes. Both cases reveal how class, age, and gender shaped institutional decisions in opposite ways: the girl's "immorality" was racialized and punished, while the man's violence was domesticated and forgiven. By reading denunciations, social reports, and character assessments as gendered bureaucratic practices, the article explores how socialist institutions perpetuated patriarchal and racial hierarchies under the guise of moral and social reform.
subject: peer-reviewed section
  topic: section
subject: gender,
  topic: keywords
subject: Romani ethnicity,
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subject: state socialism,
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subject: Romania,
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subject: patriarchy
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creator: Catalina Andricioaei
creator: Martin Babička
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 21
ending page: 43
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17597175

Roma in/of Romania: A Brief Overview
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description: The introduction to the thematic issue provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about Romanian Roma, the largest Roma population in Europe. The author summarizes key themes in scholarly and popular literature by Romanian (Roma and non-Roma) authors, especially historical forms of oppression---centuries of enslavement, the Romani Holocaust, and the policies of the communist regime---and their long-term impacts on contemporary social exclusion. The text highlights the persistence of structural antigypsyism, manifested in housing, education, health, and employment, and situates it within the theoretical frameworks of critical Romani studies and the political economy of poverty. It also maps the phenomenon of Roma migration and transnational family networks after 1990, European states' responses to Roma mobility, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. A significant section is devoted to contemporary Romani artistic production, particularly theatre and literature, which challenge stereotypes and amplify the voices of Romani actors. The study thus weaves together historical, social, and cultural perspectives to offer both specialist and general audiences a multifaceted portrait of Romanian Roma.
subject: Editorial
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subject: Romanian Roma
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subject: anti-Gypsyism
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subject: social exclusion
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subject: Roma migration
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subject: transnationalism
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subject: Romania
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subject: history of Roma
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subject: Roma in post-socialist Europe
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subject: public policies and minorities
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subject: critical Roma studies
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subject: Roma art and literature
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creator: Ana Chiriţoiu
creator: Jan Škrob
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 5
ending page: 18

Aby měly romské děti co číst / Sedm knížek pro děti a mládež
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description: RECENZE KNIH Eva Danišová: Jekh, duj, trin! Jak jedna malá žabka dohopkala do školy Praha: Kher, 5. svazek edice Mirikle, ilustrace: Matěj Ilčík, 2024, 66 s., ISBN: 978-80-87780-43-5 Tera Fabiánová: Jak jsem chodila do školy / Sar me phiravas andre škola Praha: Kher, 1. svazek edice Mirikle, ilustrace: Martin 3AX Zach, překlad: Milena Hübschmannová, 2022, 40 s., ISBN: 978-80-87780-32-9 Tera Fabiánová a Milena Hübschmannová: Čavargoš/Tulák Praha: Kher, ilustrace: Magdalena Rutová, 2023, 104 s., ISBN: 978-80-87780-35-0 Gunilla Lundgrenová, Sofia Taikonová a Amanda Erikssonová: Žofi Z-4515 Praha: Kher, ilustrace: Amanda Eriksson, překlad ze švédštiny: Marie Voslářová, překlad z kalderašské romštiny do severocentrálního dialektu: Markéta Hajská a Iveta Kokyová, 2022, 40 s., ISBN: 978-80-87780-30-5 Stanislava Miková: Vařená vejce / Tade jandre Praha: Kher, Meander, předloha: Matěj Šarközi, ilustrace: Zuzana Hustáková Mašková, překlad: Karolína Ryvolová, 2023, 20 stran, leporelo, ISBN: 978-80- 87780-42-8 (Kher, z. s.), 978-80-7558- 258-4 (Iva Pecháčková – Meander) Květoslava Podhradská: O vakeriben paš o lekvaris / Povídání u povidel Praha: Kher, 2. svazek edice Mirikle, ilustrace: Klára Zahrádková, překlad: Karolína Ryvolová, 2022, 72 s., ISBN: 978-80-87780-33-6 Michal Šamko: Májky a totemy Praha: Kher, 4. svazek edice Mirikle, ilustrace: Petr Polák, 2023, 170 s., ISBN: 978-80-87780-37-4
subject: book reviews and annotations
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creator: Anna Teresie Kratochvílová
creator: Lada Viková
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 167
ending page: 174

Jiří Smlsal: Holokaust a majetková perzekuce Romů v protektorátu Čechy a Morava
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description: RECENZE
subject: book reviews and annotations
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creator: Petr Lhotka
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 161
ending page: 166

Sveto Biblija Andre Romaňi Čhib / Romaňi Biblija. O névo zákonos. Džas le Devleskere dromeha.
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description: RECENZE Sveto Biblija Andre Romaňi Čhib Hermanus/Soľ: The Word for the World International / Slovo pre Svet o. z., 2023, 1292 s., ISBN 978-1-957770-47-5 Romaňi Biblija. O névo zákonos. Džas le Devleskere dromeha Orličky: Bohumil Jedlička, 2021, 394 s., ISBN 978-80-907837-3-7
subject: book reviews and annotations
  topic: section
creator: Pavel Kubaník
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 151
ending page: 156

Celia Donertová: Práva Romů: Boj za občanství v poválečném Československu
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description: RECENZE
subject: book reviews and annotations
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creator: Marie Juláková
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 157
ending page: 160

E romaňi čhib ča barola - kada hin perdal ma realita / Romština se bude jistě dál rozvíjet - to je pro mne realita
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description: Rozhovor s mladou romskou akademičkou, literární vědkyní z Prešovské Univerzity, která se odborně věnuje zejména romské literatuře, je zaměřen na její pohled na romštinu i romskou literaturu, na jejich roli a postavení v současné společnosti, na jejich budoucí rozvoj a proměny. Rozhovor je otištěn dvojjazyčně: romsky a v českém překladu Pavla Kubaníka.
subject: unreviewed section
  topic: section
subject: romský jazyk
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subject: romská literatura
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subject: Slovensko
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creator: Janka Gáborová-Kroková
creator: Lada Viková
creator: Pavel Kubaník
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 135
ending page: 148

Spomienky na počiatky môjho zapojenia do hnutia za práva Rómov
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description: Významná osobnost romského politického dění na Slovensku, bývalá poslankyně slovenského parlamentu, první šéfredaktorka prešovského periodika Romano ľil a také první ředitelka košického divadla Romathan, dnes vedoucí neziskové organizace Nadace dobré víly Kesaj a oceňovaná podporovatelka romského jazyka, vzpomíná na své mládí, studium i na svou rodinu. Podrobněji líčí zejména počátky svého zapojení se do etnoemancipačního hnutí Romů v roce 1978, tedy účast na kongresu Romské unie ve Švýcarsku, kam se dostala na pozvání Jána Cibuľi, a následky, které za vlastní angažovanost nesla – byla vyhozena z redakce novin a sledována státní tajnou policií.
subject: unreviewed section
  topic: section
subject: Etnoemancipace Romů
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subject: Romani Union
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subject: Švýcarsko 1978
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subject: Ján Cibuľa
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creator: Anna Koptová
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 101
ending page: 134

Revisiting the interpretation of the term "nation". Responses to the silencing of civil language and the language of "homeland" as a common home
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description: The article focuses on the connection between language use and the loss of voice in contexts of social exclusion and/or poverty. The discursive event at the centre of this text is an audio recording of a meeting held between long-term residents of the neighbourhood Bedřiška and their municipal district mayor Liana Janáčková. In July 2007, it became a topic of public discussion as the recording revealed the stance of the then senator and her explicitly racist utterances. I understand this past event as embedded in a dialogic-affective time-space and examine it from a critical sociolinguistic and interdisciplinary perspective to shed light on its meaning today. My analysis is based on an interview published in the news magazine Týden on 6 August 2007 and an editorial written by the Romani journalist Jarmila Balážová in the news magazine Romano voďi on 21 August 2007. My analysis shows that the release of the recording not only forced the senator to account for her words, but more importantly enabled her to imagine the Czech public as non-Romani. I also argue that Balážová's experience of this discursive conflict can be read as an expression of the loss of her civic language and home, her reaction interweaving a language of insecurity and distrust with critical response.
subject: peer-reviewed section
  topic: section
subject: Roma
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subject: critical discourse analysis
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subject: dialogue
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subject: affect
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subject: social exclusion
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subject: anti-Romani racism
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creator: Jenny Ulrich
creator: Dana Bucharová
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 71
ending page: 97
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15387372

Addressing the situation of Roma in Slovakia in 1989--2020 through the idea of a comprehensive approach and Romani participation in its development and definition
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description: The study analyzes the activities of Roma in Slovakia since the second half of the 1990s with the emphasis on the efforts of the Roma to move from the position of implementers of government policies and to start actively creating these policies and taking responsibility for them at the highest state level. A significant milestone in this process was the establishment of the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Roma Communities in 1999, which has been headed predominantly by Romani representatives since its inception. By 2020 at least two efforts to develop the philosophy of a comprehensive approach took place on the grounds of the Office, under the management of the Roma themselves. None of them was ultimately implemented in Slovakia in the proposed form.
subject: peer-reviewed section
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subject: Plenipotentiary for Roma communities
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subject: Government of the Slovak Republic
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subject: Roma participation
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subject: comprehensive approach
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creator: Alexander Mušinka
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 51
ending page: 69
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15423926

Roma as actors in negotiating housing policies during state socialism. The case study of Podunajské Biskupice and Plavecký Štvrtok (1950--1989)
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description: The text examines the negotiation of local housing politics in Slovakia between the 1950s and 1980s and the agency of local Roma in this process, focusing on the diversity of their political strategies, their positioning, influence and limits of their political participation. The research is based on data from two municipalities in western Slovakia. In one of them, the Romani actors were fighting against existing discriminatory strategies and other factors posing limits to their participation. The other municipality was honored as a model of interethnic cooperation for the rest of Slovakia. Nevertheless, during the late 1970s, the situation has rapidly changed also in this locality. The text inserts the two specific experiences within the broader historical, social, and political context. The author attempts to analyze the dynamics of the changes in the local policies and the determinants that played a crucial role in the success or failure of the demands by the Roma. While doing so, the author focuses on two levels of political participation -- on the one hand in the framework of the Slovak Union of Gypsies Roma, and on the other hand, within the local administrative structures.
subject: peer-reviewed section
  topic: section
subject: political participation, local Romani politicians, agency, state socialism, Podunajské Biskupice, Plavecký Štvrtok, Union of Gypsies-Roma, western Slovakia
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creator: Monika Stachová
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 13
ending page: 50
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15423869

Editorial
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description: The text presents the second part of two monothematic issues devoted to various forms of Roma efforts to achieve equal status in society, improve living conditions, and ensure that Roma are accepted by the non-Roma public as part of society as a whole. Most of the texts included in this second issue present various forms of these efforts in Slovakia.
subject: Editorial
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subject: Roma ethnic emancipation
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subject: Slovakia
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subject: equal status
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subject: discrimination
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creator: Helena Sadílková
creator: Lada Viková
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 5
ending page: 9

Zilli Schmidt (/Zilli Schmidtová): Gott hat mit mir etwas vorgehabt! Erinnerungen einer deutschen Sinteza / Bůh se mnou měl nějaký plán! Vzpomínky německé Sintky
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description: RECENZE Zilli Schmidt: Gott hat mit mir etwas vorgehabt! Erinnerungen einer deutschen Sinteza Herausgegeben von Jana Mechelhoff-Herezi und Uwe Neumärker Berlin: Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, 2020, 175 s., ISBN: 978-3-942240-36-9 Zilli Schmidtová: Bůh se mnou měl nějaký plán! Vzpomínky německé Sintky Praha/Kroměříž: Triton, 2023, 160 s., ISBN: 978-80-7553-563-4
subject: book reviews and annotations
  topic: section
creator: Eva Zdařilová
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romano džaniben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-09-30
publication date: 2024-09-30
starting page: 168
ending page: 175