Cristina-Ioana Dragomir
Biographic Data
| ID | 1713457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina-Ioana Dragomir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina-Ioana |
| FAMILY NAME | Dragomir |
| SIGNATURE | DRAGOMIR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7674-731X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toxic citizenship
This article develops the concept of toxic citizenship to explain how environmental injustice is politically produced through the differential enactment of citizenship itself. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Roma community of Gârcini, Romania, the analysis shows how formal citizenship can coexist with systematic exposure to environmental harm when legal recognition, infrastructure, and state protection are selectively suspended. …
Author Conversation
Romani Communities and Transformative Change; A New Social Europe
Destabilizing the privilege of the knower to establish forms of solidarity
In this article, I interrogate the researcher's role in conducting ethnographic and qualitative fieldwork with vulnerable communities and argue that increased epistemological reflexiveness is needed to support solidarity ties between researchers and participants. In line with critical feminist literature and methodology, I present the inconsistencies of the power relations I entered as a researcher, as well as the systemic inequalities I found op…
Nomads, “Gypsies,” and Criminals in England and India from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Both across Europe and India many mobile groups frequently are labeled as “Gypsy” and often are referred to as “criminals.” Employing a critical approach, this article unveils how the intersection of nomadism, the “Gypsy” label, and criminality was not a “natural” occurrence, but one that came about through legal and literary discourses that have been used systematically since the seventeenth century. The connection between nomadism and criminali…
Gendered practices as rituals of knowledge
I learned about the Narikuravar community during my first trip to South India in December 2012. I had previously spoken about my work with Roma communities in Europe, also referred to as “Gypsies,”
Destabilizing the privilege of the knower to establish forms of solidarity
In this article, I interrogate the researcher's role in conducting ethnographic and qualitative fieldwork with vulnerable communities and argue that increased epistemological reflexiveness is needed to support solidarity ties between researchers and participants. In line with critical feminist literature and methodology, I present the inconsistencies of the power relations I entered as a researcher, as well as the systemic inequalities I found op…
Gendered practices as rituals of knowledge
I learned about the Narikuravar community during my first trip to South India in December 2012. I had previously spoken about my work with Roma communities in Europe, also referred to as “Gypsies,”
Nomads, “Gypsies,” and Criminals in England and India from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Both across Europe and India many mobile groups frequently are labeled as “Gypsy” and often are referred to as “criminals.” Employing a critical approach, this article unveils how the intersection of nomadism, the “Gypsy” label, and criminality was not a “natural” occurrence, but one that came about through legal and literary discourses that have been used systematically since the seventeenth century. The connection between nomadism and criminali…
Gendered practices as rituals of knowledge
I learned about the Narikuravar community during my first trip to South India in December 2012. I had previously spoken about my work with Roma communities in Europe, also referred to as “Gypsies,”
Destabilizing the privilege of the knower to establish forms of solidarity
In this article, I interrogate the researcher's role in conducting ethnographic and qualitative fieldwork with vulnerable communities and argue that increased epistemological reflexiveness is needed to support solidarity ties between researchers and participants. In line with critical feminist literature and methodology, I present the inconsistencies of the power relations I entered as a researcher, as well as the systemic inequalities I found op…
Romani Communities and Transformative Change; A New Social Europe
Author Conversation
Toxic citizenship
This article develops the concept of toxic citizenship to explain how environmental injustice is politically produced through the differential enactment of citizenship itself. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Roma community of Gârcini, Romania, the analysis shows how formal citizenship can coexist with systematic exposure to environmental harm when legal recognition, infrastructure, and state protection are selectively suspended. …
Sociology (5 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Social science (2 works)