| Title | ‘Inadaptable Gypsies’ and ‘Dangerous Antiziganists’: Struggling and Mirroring Folk Devils |
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| Contributor | Ondřej Slačálek(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-13-10 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Publisher | Helsinki University Press |
| Published on | 2021-12-13 |
| Long abstract | Based on a study of anti-Roma mobilizations in the Czech Republic, this chapter examines how the image of the Roma as a folk devil exhibits not only stigmatizing characteristics but also complicated relationships in terms of tension and expectations between the ‘decent and productive majority’ and the ‘inadaptable minority’. Through this, the article states that given that decency means complying with norms defined by the behaviour of the majority, the minority is at the very least an object of suspicion from the start. |
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Ondřej Slačálek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Charles University, Prague. He works on East European politics, nationalist discourses and social movements from various analytical perspectives. Besides articles in scholarly journals (Patterns of Prejudice, Slavic Review, Intersections), he is a regular collaborator of Czech bi-weekly A2 and webzine A2larm.cz.