The Romani peoples today occupy a marginalised position in Italian society. A small number of these peoples live in ‘camps’ in conditions of extreme decay and abandonment. In order to address this ...situation and to improve these peoples’ lives, the Italian government has recently decided to implement an ‘extraordinary intervention.’ In 2008, in continuity with previous centre-left governments, the Berlusconi right-wing coalition implemented the so called ‘Emergenza Nomadi’ (nomad emergency). The state of emergency aimed to solve an issue that had been already categorised in the 1970s as the ‘problema nomadi’ (nomads problem), and was now described and handled as a ‘natural disaster.’ Based on interviews with Romani individuals, institutional and Third Sector representatives, participant observation and a broad range of secondary sources, this article argues that the enactment of an extraordinary measure was both disproportionate to the real degree of threat, and perpetuated an institutional tradition of racism and control of the Romani peoples. It was not, as the declaration of an ‘emergency’ might imply, the result of a sudden, unexpected situation which required an immediate action. The ‘emergency’ and the premises for the implementation of a ‘state of exception’ were created by protracted institutional immobility and political vacuum.
Security has come to embody a self-evident and much sought-after kind of good, and has come to colonise imaginaries, debates, policies, and large swathes of what social life means in various corners ...of the world. Echoing postcolonial calls for decentring that which is taken for granted, my essay seeks to provincialise security in three distinct ways. Drawing on my research on the securitisation of the Roma in Italy, first, I trace the transformation of the term sicurezza from safety to security in a recent-historical perspective, showing how the notion morphed from bodily integrity to a much more blurred - though taken for granted - concept. Second, using a non-representational approach grounded in new materialism, I show that what hides beneath the ubiquitous talk of sicurezza surrounding the Roma nowadays are dimensions of materiality and sensoriality that construct insecurity in a relational and ever-shifting manner. Third, I privilege the perspective of the Roma in a decolonising move that questions their securitisation and the overall framing of Roma-related concerns as a security problem. Finally, I show the productivity of the topology framework in provincialising both security, and the western-centric theory production around it.
Could digital nomads be considered as bearers of new forms of territoriality? The contribution want try to find an answer. The profile of youtubers or social media influencers, new workers of the ...globalization era, can’t escape a careful geographical anaysis based on the reading of the territorial representations and conveyed by their work and attitude. Starting from them is possible to reason about an inedited form of territoriality that, without claims of completeness, could open new study scenarios.
This study contributes to the theoretical perspectives on digital nomad identity. The aim is to go beyond the construction of the nomadic identity framed as identi-ty work in liquid modernity. In ...doing that, the paper offers an empirical investiga-tion of how knowledge workers construct and perform nomadic subjectivities through liminal work identities in under-institutionalized contexts and symbolic consumption. Drawing on the life history of digital nomads living in Chiang Mai and Bangkok (Thailand), this work concludes that digital nomads know or make the experience that the nomadic lifestyle is not a permanent way of life but a spe-cific stage of their life paths. Digital nomads frame their projects of self-realization through the digital nomad lifestyle as a liminal transition. The digital nomad identi-ty emerges as a temporary and opportunistic assemblage of neoliberal do-it-yourself biographies toward the emergence of a post-nomadic identity. However, the paradoxes and constraints embedded in the digital nomad lifestyle can freeze digital nomads in an objective and subjective permanent liminal condition.
This paper focuses on Romani and Aboriginal peoples who live at the margins of Italian and Australian societies, often in city 'camps' that show signs of institutional abandonment, neglect and ...extreme decay. To address this socio-economic disadvantage and improve the quality of life, the governments of these two countries have implemented what we have defined 'parallel emergencies', extraordinary policy measures of intervention, surveillance and control. This paper argues that these policies that aim to improve the everyday lives of Romani and Aboriginal peoples, however, often re-produce a 'tradition' of institutionalised racism that can be traced back to the post-Unification period in Italy and the Federation period in Australia. By drawing on the work of Giorgio Agamben, we highlight the approach adopted by Italian and Australian institutions in terms of 'inclusive exclusion'. On the one hand, the government makes significant investment in schooling and employment projects; on the other, it keeps promoting the use of emergency measures, which leaves slender scope for Romani and Aboriginal voices.
This article deals with the social exclusion of Romanies/ ‘Gypsies’ in Italy and the recent implementation of a state of emergency, the so-called Emergenza Nomadi (Nomad Emergency). It provides an ...investigation of the interactions between local institutions, civil society organisations and Romani people inside the so called campi nomadi (nomad camps) in Rome. The major contribution of this study is that it reveals the existence of a deeply rooted mechanism of marginalisation – the ‘camps system’ – in which corruption, lack of transparency and accountability, inefficiencies and antagonisms between a variety of competing actors have contributed to reify and crystallise the Romani condition.
Cilj je ovoga rada da bude polazišna točka za poznavanje i daljnje istraživanje Kumana, jedne od turkijskih etničkih skupina euroazijske stepe. Ta nomadska konfederacija nikad nije utemeljila državnu ...zajednicu, ali je plaćenička kumanska konjica redovito donosila prevagu u sukobima među ruskim kneževinama, u bugarsko-bizantskim ratovima, u sukobima među pretendentima na prijestolje u Ugarskoj i Srbiji te drugdje. Najviše će biti riječi o vrhuncu njihova utjecaja (1050. – 1240.), kada su kontrolirali područje od Aralskoga jezera do donjega dunavskog bazena. Gordlevski je smatrao da je proučavanje turkijskih naroda usko povezano s proučavanjem Mongola, koji su mnoge turkijske narode euroazijske stepe inkorporirali u svoje nepregledno carstvo. Jednako se tako ni srednjovjekovna povijest jugoistočne Europe ne može proučavati bez povijesti turkijskih naroda. Kumani su bili poznati po tome da su rado odvodili ljude u ropstvo, no naposljetku su i sami bili najbrojniji robovi koji su se u crnomorskoj regiji prodavali u Italiju te na Bliski i Srednji istok. Upravo je kumanski jezik ostao lingua franca u području euroazijske stepe, gdje ga i danas razumije većina turkijskih naroda. U (jugo)istočnoj Europi Kumani su se polako stopili u šareni etnički amalgam stanovništva slavenskoga, ugrofinskog i turkijskog podrijetla. U Aziji su pridonijeli stvaranju Kazaka, Uzbeka, Kirgiza i drugih turkijskih naroda. Baština Kumana upletena je u desetke europskih i azijskih nacija te je zbog toga proučavanje kumanske povijesti važno kao platforma za razumijevanje šireg okvira euroazijskih migracija te odnosâ među nomadskim i sjedilačkim društvima na tom prostoru.
Digitalno nomadstvo suvremeni je trend na tržištu rada koji je dobio snažan zamah tijekom i nakon pandemije COVID-19. Tradicionalni uvjeti rada postepeno se liberaliziraju, a ovaj trend prisutan je ...posebice u privatnom, ali u zadnje vrijeme i u javnom sektoru. Brojne su prednosti ovakvog načina rada iz perspektive zaposlenika, a jedna od osnovnih vezana je uz osjećaje slobode, neovisnosti i kontrole nad vlastitim vremenom. S obzirom na to da digitalni nomadi u turističku statistiku ulaze pod istim pretpostavkama kao i poslovni turisti, ovaj je segment potražnje postao itekako poželjan u destinacijama diljem svijeta, pa tako i u Hrvatskoj. Cilj ovog rada je analizirati motivaciju digitalnih nomada i ključna obilježja ovog segmenta potražnje, te mogućnosti razvoja destinacija koje svoju ponudu prilagođavaju digitalnim nomadima. Rezultati primarnog istraživanja provedenog putem dubinskih intervjua s dionicima uključenima u razvoj proizvoda i sadržaja za digitalne nomade upućuju na zaključak da ovaj segment turističke potražnje trenutno nema značajnije negativne učinke na razvoj turističkih destinacija, te da bi daljnji razvoj ponude prilagođene zahtjevima digitalnih nomada bio poželjna strategija budućeg razvoja turizma u Republici Hrvatskoj.
This article presents a general overview of the history of the Cuman-Qipčaq, a loose confederation of Turkic nomadic tribes. While the group never formed a state of their own, the presence of their ...horsemen in other armies often proved to be a decisive factor in the numerous medieval factional struggles between Rus’ principalities, in the Bulgar-Byzantine wars, in internal Hungarian or Serbian struggles, and other conflicts in the wider region. In their heyday (1050–1240) the Cumans controlled the entire area from the Lake Aral to the lower Danube basin. Gordlevski suggests it is impossible to understand the history of Turkic peoples without the Mongols who in the 13th century incorporated many Turkic peoples of the Eurasian steppe into their vast empire. In the same way, any study of Southeast Europe is incomplete without considering the influence of the Turkic peoples. While the Cumans had a history of taking slaves, they themselves would eventually become the most numerous slaves sold in the Black Sea region to Italy, to the Near and the Middle East. However, the Cuman language remained a long-standing lingua franca of the Black Sea steppe and is understood by the majority of Turkic peoples even today. In (South)East Europe the Cumans slowly melted into a colourful ethnic pot of populations of Slavic, Hungarian and Turkic origin. In Asia they contributed to the formation of the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz and other Turkic peoples. The legacy of the Cumans is woven into dozens of European and Asian nations, and therefore the study of Cuman history is important as a platform for understanding the broader framework of Eurasian migration as well as the relations between nomadic and sedentary societies in that area.
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