The lecture features Angéla Kóczé's upcoming book, "Romani Women at the Edge of Neoliberal Europe: Discursive Emancipation and Structural Violence" (Manchester University Press), scheduled for publication in June.
Across Europe, Romani women are celebrated in policy discourse as symbols of inclusion—or, more accurately, of facadeism—while living at the sharp edge of marginalisation, eviction, surveillance, and dispossession. Over the past three decades, they have been positioned at the centre of European projects of inclusion, empowerment, and development, even as their everyday lives remain shaped by structural violence and material insecurity. This lecture examines why inclusion so often fails those it claims to serve. Drawing on long-term participatory research and transnational feminist theory developed in a forthcoming book, it argues that Romani women’s experiences expose the structural limits of liberal equality under neoliberal capitalism. Rather than treating Romani women as marginal or exceptional cases, the lecture recenters them as theorists of racialised capitalism, whose everyday struggles illuminate how care, labour, and survival are reorganised in Europe’s semi-periphery. By centring Romani feminist knowledge, the talk invites a rethinking of feminism, development, and social justice beyond technocratic solutions and toward structural transformation.
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