Paloma Gay Y Blasco
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paloma Gay Y Blasco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paloma Gay Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Blasco |
| SIGNATURE | BLASCO P G Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research: Lessons from a Time of Crisis
Uncertainty, Failure and Reciprocal Ethnography
Breaking Away
About God and About Anthropology
Writing Friendship: A Reciprocal Ethnography
How to Read Ethnography
Comparison
Une ethnographie réciproque: Étudier les vies roms et non-roms en collaboration
La plupart des représentations universitaires des femmes roms sont produites par des non-Roms et, le plus souvent, les vies des premières sont étudiées indépendamment de celles des femmes gadjias. Dans cet article, nous (Liria, vendeuse de rue gitane, et Paloma, anthropologue paya ) discutons notre tentative d’écrire ensemble une histoire de vie réciproque, soit une monographie anthropologique dans laquelle nous explorons nos trajectoires, à la f…
Doubts, Compromises, and Ideals: Attempting a Reciprocal Life Story
In this article I reflect on my attempt to co-author a reciprocal life story with my friend Liria de la Cruz, a semiliterate Gypsy/Roma street seller from Madrid-a book where we examine together our intertwined stories. Much has been made of the assumed capacity of collaborative methodologies to transform ethnography for the better. Yet as Liria and I try to find ways to work together, we struggle to reconcile our reciprocal approach with the con…
"Context and the Challenge to a "Decolonized Science
It's the best place for them': Normalising Roma segregation in Madrid
I contribute to the debate about the persistence of Roma marginalisation in contemporary Europe by analysing the conflict that took place in 2008 in Madrid over the segregation of Gitano (Spanish Roma) children in state schools. Tracing the changing place of Gitanos in the city since the early 1980s, I demonstrate how current practices of educational segregation build on long-term processes of Gitano control and isolation in housing policy and it…
Friendship, Anthropology
In this article we, as informant and anthropologist, attempt to write ethnography together and to propose a collaborative and egalitarian anthropology. We start from the awareness that ethnographic knowledge is made by ethnographers and informants, and should be owned by both. We write together and separately, about each other and about ourselves, and describe a friendship that started 20 years ago, when Liria, a Spanish Gitana (Gypsy/Roma) first…
A wondrous adventure: Mutuality and individuality in Internet adoption narratives
In this article, I analyse the narratives that American adopters of Chinese children put up on Internet family websites in the early 2000s. I focus on what these narratives reveal about the complex articulation of notions of kinship and of individuality in twenty-first-century America. These website accounts illustrate both the relational nature of middle-class American individualism and its embeddedness in a deeply racialized world-view and a po…
Grenzüberschreitungen. Eine biographische Annäherung/Border crossing. A biographical approach
In this paper I concentrate on cosmopolitanism's ‚protean quality’ (Hannerz), its elusiveness and flexibility both as analytical tool and as experience. I explore the life of Agata Gonzáles, a Gitano (Gypsy/Roma) woman from Madrid, tracing the emergence of a cosmospolitan subjectivity. In this ethnographic context, cosmopolitanism appears and disappears from view; changes in character, intensity and effect; and is at some times an ideal, even a d…
Agata's story: Singular lives and the reach of the 'Gitano law
Ethnographic representations of Gypsies/Roma have traditionally emphasized the role of the person as exemplar and performer of Gypsy/Roma distinctiveness. They have also depicted Gypsy/Roma life as driven towards cultural closure and towards the eschewing of moral ambiguity. Here I explore these ideas via the story of a Agata, a Gitano woman from Madrid. My analysis focuses on the intersection between Gitano ideals of female behaviour as enshrine…
The fragility of cosmopolitanism: A biographical approach
In this paper I concentrate on cosmopolitanism's ‘protean quality’ (Hannerz), its elusiveness and flexibility both as analytical tool and as experience. I explore the life of Agata González, a Gitano (Gypsy/Roma) woman from Madrid, tracing the emergence of a cosmopolitan subjectivity. In this ethnographic context, cosmopolitanism appears and disappears from view; changes in character, intensity and effect; and is at some times an ideal, even a da…
Picturing ‘Gypsies’: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Roma Representation
The Relationship between Institutional Care and the International Adoption of Children in Europe’: A Rejoinder to Chou and Browne (2008)
Paloma Gay y Blasco, Sheena Macrae, Peter Selman and Huon Wardle 1 challenge the methodology and findings of an article published in the previous edition of Adoption & Fostering (Chou and Browne, 2008). The debate continues with a letter from the USA, followed by Browne and Chou's response
How to Read Ethnography
How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to apply these ideas to other areas of study. Above all it enables students to read ethnographies anthropologically and to develop an anthropological imagination of their own. …
Gypsy/Roma diasporas. A comparative perspective
Gypsy/Roma diasporas. A comparative perspective
In this article I explore the imaginative and practical links that the Gitanos of Jarana, in Madrid, make with other Gitanos and Gypsies elsewhere. What kind of diaspora do they see themselves as belonging to? The context to my investigation is the fast growth of both Gypsy Pentecostalism and Roma international political activism – two movements that, in very different ways, call for the unity of all Gypsies/Roma worldwide. Their efforts contrast…
Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain
Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain. Victoria Loree Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff. eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. ix. 443 pp., illustrations, bibliography, contributors, index
We don't know our descent: How the Gitanos of Jarana manage the past
Although Gypsies have often been described as people 'oriented towards the present', the question of how their approach to the past might illuminate their particular mode of being in the world has been left largely untheorized. In fact, understanding how Gypsies manage the past is essential to understanding the processes through which they survive as a group in the midst of non-Gypsy society. In this article I analyse how the Gitanos of Jarana (M…
The politics of evangelism: Masculinity and religious conversion among Gitanos
Flamenco: Passion, Politics and Popular Culture
We don't know our descent: How the Gitanos of Jarana manage the past
Although Gypsies have often been described as people 'oriented towards the present', the question of how their approach to the past might illuminate their particular mode of being in the world has been left largely untheorized. In fact, understanding how Gypsies manage the past is essential to understanding the processes through which they survive as a group in the midst of non-Gypsy society. In this article I analyse how the Gitanos of Jarana (M…
Agata's story: Singular lives and the reach of the 'Gitano law
Ethnographic representations of Gypsies/Roma have traditionally emphasized the role of the person as exemplar and performer of Gypsy/Roma distinctiveness. They have also depicted Gypsy/Roma life as driven towards cultural closure and towards the eschewing of moral ambiguity. Here I explore these ideas via the story of a Agata, a Gitano woman from Madrid. My analysis focuses on the intersection between Gitano ideals of female behaviour as enshrine…
Friendship, Anthropology
In this article we, as informant and anthropologist, attempt to write ethnography together and to propose a collaborative and egalitarian anthropology. We start from the awareness that ethnographic knowledge is made by ethnographers and informants, and should be owned by both. We write together and separately, about each other and about ourselves, and describe a friendship that started 20 years ago, when Liria, a Spanish Gitana (Gypsy/Roma) first…
Doubts, Compromises, and Ideals: Attempting a Reciprocal Life Story
In this article I reflect on my attempt to co-author a reciprocal life story with my friend Liria de la Cruz, a semiliterate Gypsy/Roma street seller from Madrid-a book where we examine together our intertwined stories. Much has been made of the assumed capacity of collaborative methodologies to transform ethnography for the better. Yet as Liria and I try to find ways to work together, we struggle to reconcile our reciprocal approach with the con…
The politics of evangelism: Masculinity and religious conversion among Gitanos
A wondrous adventure: Mutuality and individuality in Internet adoption narratives
In this article, I analyse the narratives that American adopters of Chinese children put up on Internet family websites in the early 2000s. I focus on what these narratives reveal about the complex articulation of notions of kinship and of individuality in twenty-first-century America. These website accounts illustrate both the relational nature of middle-class American individualism and its embeddedness in a deeply racialized world-view and a po…
Picturing ‘Gypsies’: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Roma Representation
Writing Friendship: A Reciprocal Ethnography
It's the best place for them': Normalising Roma segregation in Madrid
I contribute to the debate about the persistence of Roma marginalisation in contemporary Europe by analysing the conflict that took place in 2008 in Madrid over the segregation of Gitano (Spanish Roma) children in state schools. Tracing the changing place of Gitanos in the city since the early 1980s, I demonstrate how current practices of educational segregation build on long-term processes of Gitano control and isolation in housing policy and it…
The Relationship between Institutional Care and the International Adoption of Children in Europe’: A Rejoinder to Chou and Browne (2008)
Paloma Gay y Blasco, Sheena Macrae, Peter Selman and Huon Wardle 1 challenge the methodology and findings of an article published in the previous edition of Adoption & Fostering (Chou and Browne, 2008). The debate continues with a letter from the USA, followed by Browne and Chou's response
Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain
Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain. Victoria Loree Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff. eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. ix. 443 pp., illustrations, bibliography, contributors, index
Flamenco: Passion, Politics and Popular Culture
Flamenco: Passion, Politics and Popular Culture
The politics of evangelism: Masculinity and religious conversion among Gitanos
Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain
Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain. Victoria Loree Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff. eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. ix. 443 pp., illustrations, bibliography, contributors, index
We don't know our descent: How the Gitanos of Jarana manage the past
Although Gypsies have often been described as people 'oriented towards the present', the question of how their approach to the past might illuminate their particular mode of being in the world has been left largely untheorized. In fact, understanding how Gypsies manage the past is essential to understanding the processes through which they survive as a group in the midst of non-Gypsy society. In this article I analyse how the Gitanos of Jarana (M…
Gypsy/Roma diasporas. A comparative perspective
In this article I explore the imaginative and practical links that the Gitanos of Jarana, in Madrid, make with other Gitanos and Gypsies elsewhere. What kind of diaspora do they see themselves as belonging to? The context to my investigation is the fast growth of both Gypsy Pentecostalism and Roma international political activism – two movements that, in very different ways, call for the unity of all Gypsies/Roma worldwide. Their efforts contrast…
How to Read Ethnography
How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to apply these ideas to other areas of study. Above all it enables students to read ethnographies anthropologically and to develop an anthropological imagination of their own. …
Gypsy/Roma diasporas. A comparative perspective
Picturing ‘Gypsies’: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Roma Representation
The Relationship between Institutional Care and the International Adoption of Children in Europe’: A Rejoinder to Chou and Browne (2008)
Paloma Gay y Blasco, Sheena Macrae, Peter Selman and Huon Wardle 1 challenge the methodology and findings of an article published in the previous edition of Adoption & Fostering (Chou and Browne, 2008). The debate continues with a letter from the USA, followed by Browne and Chou's response
The fragility of cosmopolitanism: A biographical approach
In this paper I concentrate on cosmopolitanism's ‘protean quality’ (Hannerz), its elusiveness and flexibility both as analytical tool and as experience. I explore the life of Agata González, a Gitano (Gypsy/Roma) woman from Madrid, tracing the emergence of a cosmopolitan subjectivity. In this ethnographic context, cosmopolitanism appears and disappears from view; changes in character, intensity and effect; and is at some times an ideal, even a da…
Grenzüberschreitungen. Eine biographische Annäherung/Border crossing. A biographical approach
In this paper I concentrate on cosmopolitanism's ‚protean quality’ (Hannerz), its elusiveness and flexibility both as analytical tool and as experience. I explore the life of Agata Gonzáles, a Gitano (Gypsy/Roma) woman from Madrid, tracing the emergence of a cosmospolitan subjectivity. In this ethnographic context, cosmopolitanism appears and disappears from view; changes in character, intensity and effect; and is at some times an ideal, even a d…
Agata's story: Singular lives and the reach of the 'Gitano law
Ethnographic representations of Gypsies/Roma have traditionally emphasized the role of the person as exemplar and performer of Gypsy/Roma distinctiveness. They have also depicted Gypsy/Roma life as driven towards cultural closure and towards the eschewing of moral ambiguity. Here I explore these ideas via the story of a Agata, a Gitano woman from Madrid. My analysis focuses on the intersection between Gitano ideals of female behaviour as enshrine…
Friendship, Anthropology
In this article we, as informant and anthropologist, attempt to write ethnography together and to propose a collaborative and egalitarian anthropology. We start from the awareness that ethnographic knowledge is made by ethnographers and informants, and should be owned by both. We write together and separately, about each other and about ourselves, and describe a friendship that started 20 years ago, when Liria, a Spanish Gitana (Gypsy/Roma) first…
A wondrous adventure: Mutuality and individuality in Internet adoption narratives
In this article, I analyse the narratives that American adopters of Chinese children put up on Internet family websites in the early 2000s. I focus on what these narratives reveal about the complex articulation of notions of kinship and of individuality in twenty-first-century America. These website accounts illustrate both the relational nature of middle-class American individualism and its embeddedness in a deeply racialized world-view and a po…
"Context and the Challenge to a "Decolonized Science
It's the best place for them': Normalising Roma segregation in Madrid
I contribute to the debate about the persistence of Roma marginalisation in contemporary Europe by analysing the conflict that took place in 2008 in Madrid over the segregation of Gitano (Spanish Roma) children in state schools. Tracing the changing place of Gitanos in the city since the early 1980s, I demonstrate how current practices of educational segregation build on long-term processes of Gitano control and isolation in housing policy and it…
Doubts, Compromises, and Ideals: Attempting a Reciprocal Life Story
In this article I reflect on my attempt to co-author a reciprocal life story with my friend Liria de la Cruz, a semiliterate Gypsy/Roma street seller from Madrid-a book where we examine together our intertwined stories. Much has been made of the assumed capacity of collaborative methodologies to transform ethnography for the better. Yet as Liria and I try to find ways to work together, we struggle to reconcile our reciprocal approach with the con…
Une ethnographie réciproque: Étudier les vies roms et non-roms en collaboration
La plupart des représentations universitaires des femmes roms sont produites par des non-Roms et, le plus souvent, les vies des premières sont étudiées indépendamment de celles des femmes gadjias. Dans cet article, nous (Liria, vendeuse de rue gitane, et Paloma, anthropologue paya ) discutons notre tentative d’écrire ensemble une histoire de vie réciproque, soit une monographie anthropologique dans laquelle nous explorons nos trajectoires, à la f…
How to Read Ethnography
Comparison
Breaking Away
About God and About Anthropology
Writing Friendship: A Reciprocal Ethnography
Uncertainty, Failure and Reciprocal Ethnography
Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research: Lessons from a Time of Crisis
Sociology (22 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works)