This Land: The rooting of Gypsies and Travellers
The nomads invented a war machine in opposition to the State apparatus. History has never comprehended nomadism […] the book has never comprehended the outside. The State as the model…
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A Cautionary Tail
White Tail was always first to the table. Checking first for watching eyes, she would descend graceful and fearless remaining only until she had eaten enough to provide the energy…
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Remembering Dale Farm
The following gives an overview of the latter stages of the 10 year long struggle to halt the eviction of eighty families resident at Dale Farm, Essex. The eviction went…
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Is our community development effective?
I watched a programme about effective altruism last night. The main points discussed were what approaches, and by whom, were most effective. It got me thinking about the what…
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Ice Cream for Crow
Watching a documentary on Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) reminded me that my critical thinking developed against a backdrop of psychedelia, a sub-culture associated not only with psychedelic…
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10th Meeting of the Council of Europe – Dialogue with Roma and Traveller Civil Society
I was invited by the Scottish Traveller Action and Resilience Collective [STARC] to present on their behalf at this meeting. As a founding member of the collective I was happy…
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Language matters: Social representations of Gypsy/Traveller women
First published as part of Engender’s F-Words series (July, 2020). In considering the language used to categorise and indeed denigrate Gypsy/Traveller women, an examination of the role of the media…
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A new normal
The first long, warm evening of the year, we sleep with windows ajar. Drifting into sleep, we are minded that the summer Solstice will soon be upon us and so…
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