Critical Approaches to Anti-GRT Racism - YBLS031

• Title: Critical Approaches to Anti-GRT Racism
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (30)
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Yasar Abu Ghosh, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Yasar Abu Ghosh, Ph.D.; Mgr. Pavel Baloun, Ph.D.; Mgr. Renata Berkyová; Helena Sadílková, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Pre-requisite : {Group of prerequisites for LAH and Exchange students - ANTR}

Annotation

English

This course seeks to help to understand and address anti-GRT (Gypsies, Roma, Travellers) racism, shifting away from viewing it merely as an issue affecting these communities toward recognizing it as a fundamental structural problem that influences European society as a whole. The persistent and extreme marginalization of GRT people—representing one of Europe's most challenging yet underexamined social issues—arises from this widespread anti-GRT racism that permeates institutions and communities. Institutional approaches to addressing anti-GRT racism have concentrated mainly on mitigating its consequences rather than adequately examining the underlying mechanisms of how, why, and where it emerges and endures. Academic research that could illuminate these fundamental processes has been divided across disciplinary silos and national contexts. During the course, experts who have studied various historical, regional and social instances of violence against GRT will attempt to bridge these shortcoming by will present their reflections on "how has anti-GRT racism been possible" and how it happens.

Last update: Abu Ghosh Yasar, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.09.2025)

Czech

Cílem tohoto kurzu je tematizovat a porozumět rasismu vůči GRT (c*ikáni, Romové, Travellers), a to tak, že se přestane vnímat pouze jako problém ovlivňující tyto komunity, ale jako zásadní strukturální problém, který ovlivňuje celou evropskou společnost. Trvalá a extrémní marginalizace lidí z komunit GRT – představující jeden z nejnáročnějších, ale dosud nedostatečně prozkoumaných sociálních problémů v Evropě – vyplývá z rozšířeného rasismu vůči GRT, který prostupuje institucemi a komunitami. Institucionální přístupy k řešení rasismu vůči GRT se soustředily hlavně na zmírnění jeho důsledků, spíše než na adekvátní zkoumání základních mechanismů toho, jak, proč a kde vzniká a přetrvává. Akademický výzkum, který by mohl osvětlit tyto základní procesy, bývá rozdroben mezi různé disciplíny a národní kontexty. V průběhu kurzu se odborníci, kteří studovali různé historické, regionální a sociální případy násilí proti GRT, pokusí překlenout tyto nedostatky a představí své úvahy o tom, „jak je rasismus proti GRT možný“ a jak se děje.

Last update: Abu Ghosh Yasar, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.09.2025)

Teaching methods

This course is taught in cooperation with partners from the University of St Andrews, the Faculty of Arts of CU and other collaborators who took part in the joint project of study module preparation. This year we are offering a pilot of the study module to Charles University students. For enrolled students in class participation is required whereas international partners will be joining the course via MS Teams link. Study materials (a detailed syllabus, readings, handouts...) as well as other supporting teaching tools are to be found in the MS Team that will be created during the week before the first session.  

Last update: Abu Ghosh Yasar, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.09.2025)

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Assessment

1. For each session students are required to complete an assignment (Course preparation). Assignments have to be submitted by 8 am on the Monday before the class session. 

2. Class participation is required. Absences have to be reported before the class, maximum 2 absences. 

Assignments 9x10	90 %
Class participation and engagement	10 %

Last update: Abu Ghosh Yasar, Mgr., Ph.D. (07.10.2025)

Syllabus

7.10.

WEEK 1 - Anti-GRT racism

Yasar Abu Ghosh

14.10.

WEEK 2 - Representations: images, voices, expert regimes

Renata Berkyová (ÚSD AVČR)

21.10.

WEEK 3 - Armed conflict

Sara Edgcumbe 

28.10. National holiday - no classes

 

4.11.

WEEK 4 - Persecution

Pavel Baloun

11.11.

WEEK 5 - Governing space: the spatial segregation of Romanies

Jan Ort

18.11.

WEEK 6 - Governance mobility of the Roma

Huub van Baar

25.11.

WEEK 7 -  GRT under socialism 

H. Sadílkovová

2.12.

WEEK 8 - Inequality

Yasar Abu Ghosh

9.12.

WEEK 9 - Beneviolence: between control and care

Paloma Gay Blasco

16.12.

WEEK 10 - Racialization

Martin Fotta

23.12.

WEEK 11 - Re-cap - Antigypsyism

Yasar Abu Ghosh

Last update: Abu Ghosh Yasar, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.09.2025)

Learning resources

Study packages as well as updated course information are available in the course MS Teams interface: Obecné | Critical Approaches to anti-GRT racism | Microsoft Teams

Last update: Abu Ghosh Yasar, Mgr., Ph.D. (07.10.2025)