Staging Citizenship

<p> Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma <em>Staging Citizenship</em> offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on performance broadly conceived it follows members of a squatter's settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances media representations activism and interactions with both non-governmental organizations and state agencies author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy citizenship resistance and neoliberalism in her subjects' remarkably varied lives and experiences.</p>