Those Who Count: Expert Practices of Roma
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 4 pages, pdf Description: Surdu’s book focuses on classificatory practices in Europe regarding Roma minority, and dissects topics critical for many scientific fields of research: the power of naming, discipline through categorization, domination over society, and scientific practices defining characteristics and the social status of groups. Roma ethnicity, Surdu maintains, is the result of deeply rooted scientific practices that have made the ethnic group a measurable and objective entity. The book, in a sense, is a careful examination of the process of essentialization – a phenomena widely criticized with a clear need of further conceptualization.