T. Hrustič and A. Belák co-authored the publication on the impact of COVID-19 on Roma communities
Our colleagues, Tomáš Hrustič and Andrej Belák, edited the Slovak chapter in a ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.
The contributors reveal how the pandemic has exacerbated Romani disenfranchisement and document the resilience and creativity with which Romanies have responded to the crisis. Deploying innovative textual formats, including poignant personal reflections, memoirs, scholarly analyses, and diary excerpts, the volume provides a roadmap for collaboration and dialogue during a global emergency. Editors of the publication are Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta, and the book was published in July 2023 by Berghahn Books.
This is the most significant chronicle of Romani stories about the COVID crisis ever assembled. The contributions include memoirs, opinion essays, transcriptions of conversations or interviews, ethnographic analyses, and a compelling short story by Romani writer Iveta Kokyová, as well as pieces that stride the boundaries between one or more genres or that fit into none.
The book can be purchased at the publisher’s website: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BlascoRomani
