Countering antiziganistic media representations

Hegemonic patterns of representation, such as exoticisation, demonisation, precarisation and criminalisation, framing Roma as outsiders, have been reproduced across media for centuries.

In this seminar, Melanie Kuhn will draw on interviews and focus groups to discuss how these portrayals are received, negotiated and resisted by those affected by antiziganism.

She will also explore the multiple ways in which their resistant media practices challenge these powerful narrative patterns.

Furthermore, she will address how publicly visible resistance to antiziganism in the media also requires the complex and precarious management of social positioning and belonging.

These issues demonstrate that strategies of voicing, self-representation, and counter-storytelling in the media have their inherent ambivalences and create their own specific vulnerabilities.