Ghettos in Slovakia. Confronting Roma Social and Enviromental Exclusion
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Richard Filčák
Abstract
More than half of the Roma population in Slovakia lives in spaces that are segregated or separated from dominant non-Roma communities. The socio-spatial marginalization of Roma is both generated and reinforced through open and discrete social processes and measures largely orchestrated by local governments, enabled by an ineffective state; and reinforced by the general socio-economic policy framework. This article builds on extensive field research on predominantly Roma-occupied spaces (i.e., ‘settlements’) in Slovakia and focuses on the nature and function of Roma segregation and separation in Slovakia from an ecological socio-political, and economic standpoint. Based on Loi’c Wacquant’s work on ethno-racial segregation and the concept of environmental justice, we discuss social and environmental discrimination as one of the constituent elements in understanding Roma socio-spatial marginalization and its functions, and employ the neologism, ‘hyper-osada’ as a tool to conceptually and analytically investigate the; new impetus and recent trajectory of Roma segregation and separation.
© 2014 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
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Articles in the same Issue
- Contents
- Editorial: Environmental Justice as Empirical and Normative
- Ghettos in Slovakia. Confronting Roma Social and Enviromental Exclusion
- Environmental Inequality in France: A Theoretical, Empirical and Policy Perspective
- When Is ‘Yes to the Mill’ Environmental Justice? Interrogating Sites of Acceptance in Response to Energy Development
- No Environmental Justice Movement in France? Controversy about Pollution in Two Southern French Industrial Towns
- Climate Change, Energy Policy and Justice: A Systematic Review
- Environmental Inequalities and Democratic Citizenship: Linking Normative Theory with Empirical Research
- Water Justice: A Multilayer Term and Its Role in Cooperation
- Individual Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Climate Change
- Why Participate in Pro-Environmental Action? Individual Responsibility in Unstructured Collectives
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