Overview
- Provides a comprehensive account of Gypsies and Travellers that is historically located in the development of policy and practice
- Speaks to those interested in hate studies, diversity and victimology, social policy and sociology, and Gypsy and Romani studies
- Examines harmful discourses present in criminal justice processes and media representations
Part of the book series: Palgrave Hate Studies (PAHS)
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About this book
Gypsies and Travellers have often been overlooked as victims of hate crime and discrimination. This book redresses that exclusion by shining a light on the harms of hate experienced by Gypsies and Travellers in the UK. In doing so James explores how hate permeates all aspects of their lives and identifies the hate crimes, incidents, and speech that they are subject to. It goes on to explore how hate against Gypsies and Travellers occurs as discrimination, social exclusion and criminalisation and how that hate is embedded within the language and practice of neoliberal capitalism.
This book provides new insights to critical criminology and ways of understanding hate by using the critical hate studies perspective to gain a full appreciation of the harms of hate. As a consequence of this, the book is able to do justice to Gypsies' and Travellers' experiences of hate by extrapolating how harms manifest and the impact they have on Gypsies’ and Travellers’ social and personal identities. The book explains and acknowledges how hate harms imbue Gypsies' and Travellers' daily lives, including common events of serious abuse and assault, regular ill-treatment in provision of services, and everyday micro-aggressions. It argues hate experienced by Gypsies and Travellers can only be fully recognised through an analysis of the neoliberal capitalist context within which it occurs and the harmful subjective experience it engenders. The author’s expertise in this area, having carried out research with Gypsies and Travellers for 25 years, underpins the book with excellent empirical knowledge and research-informed discussion.
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Book Title: The Harms of Hate for Gypsies and Travellers
Book Subtitle: A Critical Hate Studies Perspective
Authors: Zoë James
Series Title: Palgrave Hate Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-51829-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51828-6Published: 25 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51829-3Published: 24 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-6364
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6372
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 127
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Critical Criminology, Human Rights, Political Sociology, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Social Policy