Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023). We decided to put together Romani Chronicles of COVID-19 during the Great Quarantine of 2020 (Boellstorff, 2020) when, like so many others, we were overwhelmed by the […]
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023). As I sit down to write these words in Glasgow, Scotland, in July 2024, the news is still dominated by the enduring spectre of COVID-19. The UK […]
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023). On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) before later announcing the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on […]
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023). Romani Chronicles of COVID-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience is an admirable and personal account not only of various Roma peoples’ resilience and tenacity but also of […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the April edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis Liza Buchbinder, Seth M. Holmes, Rebecca Newmark, Bonnie Wong, Philippe Bourgois The confluence […]
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023). Prologue As a child, I used to hide under the long colourful skirts worn by my mother. Thinking this was my place in the world, I […]
