Hearing the Voices of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities b... - 9781447313564

Hearing the Voices of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller CommunitiesInclusive Community Development\nAuthor(s): Andrew Ryder, Sarah Cemlyn, Thomas Acton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781447313564, 978-1447313564\nSynopsis\nOver the past decade, interest in Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT) has risen up the political and media agendas, but they remain relatively unknown. This topical book is the first to chart the history and contemporary developments in GRT community activism, and the community and voluntary organisations and coalitions which support it. Underpinned by radical community development and equality theories, it describes the communities' struggle for rights against a backdrop of intense intersectional discrimination across Europe, and critiques the ambivalent role of community development in fostering these campaigns. Much of it co-written by community activists, it is a vehicle for otherwise marginalise.