Country of residence

Romania

Brief introduction

Scientific researcher, “Gheorge Sincai” Institute for Social Studies and Humanities

Education

Phd, History

Academic profile

I am interested in the representation of the Gypsies/Roma in the cultures of the central European area during 17-20^th centuries. Key interest in my research is revealing the (in)consistency of the stereotypes and the resilience of different content to newer scientific and ideological paradigms. Another aspect I am keen on is the “writing back” of the Roma intelligentsia in affirming their own agenda and the manner in which they try to fight back the hegemonic discourses that preceded or are contemporary with themselves. My interest is to finally reveal the artificiality of the cognitive adventure of the both sides involved in (re)creation or justifying a specific repressive respectively self-asserting agenda.

Publications

• Marian Zăloagă, Die 'Zigeunerin' als 'Hexe'. Eine Analyse der gegenwärtigen und historischen Dimension eines Diskurses und seiner Bedeutung für Identität, in Uerlings, Herbert / Patrut, Iulia-Karin (Hrsg.)'Zigeuner' und Nation. Repräsentation - Inklusion – Exklusion, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008, pp. 551-569.

• Marian Zăloagă „Ethnic defaming and the historical research. On the case of Gypsies’ designation in Transylvanian Saxons culture of the 19th to the 20th Centuries”, în Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai - Studia Europaea (1/2011), pp. 31-60.

• Marian Zăloagă, „Deprecating Gypsy Work: Normative Discourses and Varieties of Mobility in 17th – 19th Centuries Transylvania”, în Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Socio-Umane "Gheorghe Şincai" al Academiei Române, XIII/2010, pp. 208-234.

Keywords

Poverty, marginality, otherness, music in society

Contact

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