Understanding the stigmatization of Gypsies: Power and the dialectics of (Dis)identification

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-109

  Powell, Ryan ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disidentification; Elias; Gypsies and Travellers; Power relations; Stigmatization

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; GYPSY PEOPLE; MARGINALIZATION; POWER RELATIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 46649115692     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: 16512278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036090701657462     Document Type: Article

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