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Accepted Paper:
Researching the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations: complicity, oppression and resistance
Lois Orton
(University of Sheffield)
Marton Rovid
Angela KOCZE
(Central European University)
Sarah Salway
(University of Sheffield)
Olga Fuseini
Drawing on the experience of five scholars in knowledge production on the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations, we explore how we might better account for, and work against, the complex web of dynamic oppressions embedded within processes of knowledge production.
Paper long abstract:
This presentation draws on the experience of five Romani and non-Romani scholars in knowledge production on the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations. Together, we explore how we might better account for, and work against, the complex web of dynamic oppressions embedded within processes of academic knowledge production. Our aim is to encourage careful scrutiny through which scholars might better recognise our own complicity with oppression and identify concrete actions towards transforming our research practices. Drawing on Williams et al.’s (2019) domains of racism typology, we use examples from our own work to illustrate three interconnected domains of oppression in which we have found ourselves entangled (structural, cultural and interpersonal). A new conceptual framework is proposed as an aid to understanding the spectrum of different ‘types’ of complicity (voluntary-involuntary, conscious-unconscious) that one might reproduce across all three domains. We conclude by exploring how scholars might promote a more actively anti-racist research agenda, identifying and challenging subtle, hidden and embedded negative ideologies and practices as well as more obviously oppressive ones. We hope these reflections will help revitalise important conversations.