The Work of Sisyphus: Squaring the Circle of Roma Recognition

Most special issues on Roma minorities want to alert readers to the devastating consequences of racist public attitudes and misdirected public policy. Here we don't shy away from such issues, but we also want to challenge our own scholarship and ask some fundamental questions about how we, as academics, are approaching such research. In this introduction the context of the special issue is explored, both in terms of the historic backdrop of an expanding European Union and the academic theoretical framework of minority integration. Major critical questioning – such as broader questions around migration, race and ethnicity discourses – are still lacking when it comes to research on or with Roma minorities. Our main aim is to move debates on from continually describing who Roma people are and what they are doing, to questioning: who defines who is Roma, when and why? What happens in policy-making, research, everyday interactions? This approach sees an understanding of recognition, representations and power dynamics as fundamental to understanding the positionings of minorities who can also be marginalised or feel disenfranchised. This introduction to the special issue highlights the importance of deeply conceptualising issues around minority integration alongside empirical knowledge of how Roma identities become implicated in and through different modalities of mobilisation. Contributions to this special issue speak to debates in minority politics and identity studies along with migration and race/ethnicity discourses. This indicates that the experiences of, and discourses surrounding Roma minorities reflect the fundamental concerns of social science research about identity, ethnicity, cohesion and change.

Unpacking the Roma Participation Puzzle: Presence, Voice and Influence

The idea that Roma communities need to be included in public life is rather uncontroversial, widely accepted by Roma activists, academics and policy-makers in national and transnational political contexts. But, what do we mean by participation? Are we talking about formal political structures or do we refer to the capacity of ordinary Roma to have a presence in public life? The right to participation for minorities is specified by international norms but is interpreted differently in national contexts. Nevertheless, participation alone is not enough, thus minorities require 'effective' participation given that the utilitarian principles of liberal democracy means that groups such as Roma will always be outvoted. This article is based on the conviction that addressing the multiple and inter-connected issues facing Roma communities across Europe requires the participation of Roma in social, economic and political life. Whilst the article acknowledges the structural barriers which inhibit attempts to foster the integration of Roma communities, it does consider different conceptions of political participation including presence, voice and influence and how these are understood by the European Union and its member states with regards to Roma.

Iglesia, Pueblos y Culturas Nº39

Este número comienza con dos artículos que se ocupan de una temática africana: uno no es más que un capítulo de la Exhortacíón Apostólica "Ecclesia in Africa" y el otro es un comentario al mismo documento. Esto parecería extraño, si no se tuviere en cuenta que el tema de la inculturación, lejos de ser exclusivo de América Latina, es mucho más debatido en las lglesias de Africa y de Asia, que entre nosotros. Si Ia reflexión abarca otras realidades se enriquece porque obliga a multiplicar los puntos de vista y las observaciones sobre realidades diferentes y lejanas plantean comparaciones y motivan nuevos aportes. El tercer artículo "intenta una evaluación del papel cumplido por el demonio en la manera en que las culturas nativas americanas, especialmente en México, fueron percibidas e interpretadas por los misioneros y los intelectuales europeos durante las primeras décadas de la evangelización". El estudio no tiene solo valor documental orientado a entender el pasado, sino que ayuda a comprender muchos matices de la religiosidad popular de hoy.

Roma na poesia de Marcial: imagens e ecos de um espaço físico e social

A presente tese assenta na forma como Roma, considerada nas suas dimensões física e social, se encontra representada na poesia de Marcial. Estruturalmente, o trabalho encontra-se dividido em três partes: I. Marcial: a vida e a obra; II. Enquadramento Urbano: Roma, espaço físico; III. Enquadramento Urbano: Roma, espaço social. Após um momento introdutório, inicia-se a primeira parte do trabalho, centrada em aspectos de cariz biobibliográfico considerados relevantes para a compreensão da obra do epigramatista. A segunda parte da tese é consagrada à análise da representatividade dos diferentes espaços físicos de Roma, na sua poesia. Na terceira parte, a forma como os diferentes tipos sociais, agentes e profissionais se encontram retratados foi o principal alvo de investigação. Deste modo, pretendeu-se contribuir para uma visão de conjunto de uma realidade que, até ao momento, contou sobretudo com estudos parcelares.

Recensione: Nicoletta Maraschio e Domenico De Martino (ed.) (2013), Fuori l’italiano dall’università? Inglese, internazionalizzazione, politica linguistica, Roma/Bari, Laterza, coll. «Percorsi, 151», 336 p. [ISBN: 978-8-858-10591-7]

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Da catábase e da anábase : itinerários entre mundos, da Suméria a Roma

Tese de doutoramento, História (História e Cultura das Religiões), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2016

Blondi Flavii, Forliviensis, Roma instaurata.

Philiberti de la Mare

1.° Sancti Thomae Aquinatis liber de occultis actionibus naturae. — 2.° Ejusdem liber de judiciis astrorum. — 3.° Aegidii de Roma, ordinis Eremitarum sancti Augustini, quaestio ; an et quomodò possint Reges bona regni ecclesiis elargiri.

Colbertinus, antea Jacobi Augusti Thuani

Club Roma MVP Trophy

Professor McNeil presents Ken Lamb with The Club Roma Trophy in 1978.