NAVIGATING SPACINESS: politics of memory, resistance and healing in Rom*nja communities

The study Navigating Spaciness: Politics of Memory, Resistance and Healing in Rom*nja Communities examines the centrality of oral storytelling in Rom*nja communities, emphasizing its significance not just as a cultural practice but as a form of resistance and preservation. Oral tradition serves as a mechanism for transmitting cultural memory, helping to maintain the community’s past and present while resisting historical and ongoing marginalization.
Spaciness, as used here, reflects a sense of stepping away from dominant narratives to explore the richness and complexity of identity and memory. It’s about navigating boundless spaces in a journey of discovery, embracing a research process that refuses to be confined to a single story or perspective. Through this lens, the study critically examines installation and performance art, exploring how these artistic forms engage with the politics of memory and offer a means of healing within the contemporary context. The text also reflects on the personal and embodied aspects of identity and of a body as a space for negotiating boundaries, norms, and binaries. In rejecting the conventional structures of a society entrenched in racist and patriarchal oppression, these bodies become a site of transformation, fusing with other bodies and species. The exploration of this fusion is framed as a creative, decolonial process, aimed at breaking free from traditional conceptions of identity and engaging in a dynamic, fluid understanding of selfhood. Through this embodied experience, the text connects individual acts of resistance to broader cultural and political movements, contributing to the ongoing discourse on memory, identity, and social justice.







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