Slawomir KAPRALSKI
Country of residence
Poland
Brief introduction
Lecturer, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Education
PhD, Sociology, 1992, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Academic profile
The history of the Roma Holocaust and its impact on Roma identities. Roma nationalism. Polish-Jewish relations and anti-Semitism. Cultural representations of time and space. Social anthropology of existential problems.
Publications
- Nation from the Ashes? The Experience of the Holocaust and Contemporary Romani Identities. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Scholar 2011 (in print).
- The Holocaust in the Memory of the Roma. From Trauma to Imagined Community? In: L. Stillman and G. Johanson (eds.) Constructing and Sharing Memory: Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment. Newcastle 2007: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Rituals of Memory in Constructing Eastern European Roma Identity. In: The Role of the Romanies. Images and Self-Images of Romanies/"Gypsies" in European Cultures. Edited by Nicholas Saul and Susan Tebbutt. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004
Keywords
Roma, Holocaust, Identity, Culture, Memory
Contact
s_kapralski@hotmail.com
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