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Travellers and Showpeople: Recovering Migrant History - Hakizimana, Jean Ryan (Editor), and Harrington, Louise (Editor)
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The late-twentieth century has witnessed a particular prominence assigned to the discourses of "difference" and "Otherness". An examination of this "othering" discourse as related to Travellers, Gypsies and Showpeople ennumerates the projective function of the "Othering" process, a form of rejection and marginalisation that is the institutionalization of ideas which are seldom challenged. The history of Traveller and Gypsy "Othering" in Europe points to the constant re-articulation of reductionist stereotypes as applied to ...

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Travellers and Showpeople: Recovering Migrant History 2008, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

ISBN-13: 9781847186362

Hardcover