Items where Author is "Acton, Thomas"

Article

Acton, Thomas (2010) Gypsy witness. Baptist Times (8343). pp. 1-2. ISSN 0005-5786

Acton, Thomas (2007) Here to stay: the Gypsies and Travellers of Great Britain. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30 (2). pp. 1170-1171. ISSN 0141-9870 (doi:10.1080/01419870701599648)

Acton, Thomas (2007) Reviews. European History Quarterly, 37 (3). pp. 467-468. ISSN 0265-6914 (Print), 1461-7110 (Online) (doi:10.1177/02656914070370030507)

Acton, Thomas (2007) The Gypsy Debate: Can Discourse Control? Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 28 (4). pp. 343-345. ISSN 0143-4632 (electronic), 1747-7557 (print) (doi:10.2167/jmmd561b.0)

Acton, Thomas (2007) Review of Angus Bancroft,"Roma and Gypsy-Travellers in Europe: modernity, race, space and exclusion". Romani Studies, 17 (2). pp. 247-249. ISSN 1528-0748 (Print), 1757-2274 (Online) (doi:10.3828/rs.2007.11)

Book Section

Acton, Thomas (2010) Introduction: a new turning point in the debates over the history and origins of Roma/Gypsies/Travellers. In: All change!: Romani studies through Romani eyes. University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, pp. 3-4. ISBN 978-1-905313-78-5 (pbk)

Acton, Thomas (2010) Is tradition the enemy of history? In: Mapping the Invisible: EU-Roma Gypsies. Black Dog Publishing / London College of Fashion, London, UK, pp. 20-23. ISBN 978 1 906155 91 9

Acton, Thomas (2007) Human rights as a perspective on entitlements: the debate over ‘Gypsy Fairs’ in England. In: Travellers, Gypsies, Roma: the demonisation of difference. Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781847181275

Acton, Thomas (2007) Damian LeBas [GB]. In: Paradise Lost: Catalogue of the first Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Prestel Publishing, Munich and London, pp. 88-89. ISBN 978-3-7913-6145-1

Acton, Thomas (2007) Second site. In: Paradise lost. Open Society Institute / Prestel Publishing, London, UK: New York, pp. 30-32. ISBN 978-3-7913-6145-1

Book

Hayes, Michael and Acton, Thomas, eds. (2007) Travellers, Gypsies, Roma: the demonisation of difference. Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. ISBN 9781847181275

Edited Book

Le Bas, Damian and Acton, Thomas (Eds.) (2010) All change!: Romani studies through Romani eyes. University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK. ISBN 978-1-905313-78-5 (pbk)

Hayes, Michael and Acton, Thomas (Eds.) (2006) Counter-hegemony and the postcolonial "other". Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, UK. ISBN 1-84718-047-7

Conference Proceedings

Acton, Thomas (2009) Why English Romanes did not become a literary Language in the 1970s. In: “A Language without Borders…” The International Romani Language Conference in Stockholm and Uppsala 7–9 January 2007. Endangered Languages and Cultures (5). Centre for Multiethnic Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-86624-51-4 ISSN 1651-6540

Conference or Workshop Item

Acton, Thomas (2010) A new kind of maturity: Romani intelligentsias in the 20th century. In: Annual Meeting and Conference of the International Gypsy Lore Society, 8-11 September 2010, University of Lisbon, Portugal. (Unpublished)

Acton, Thomas (2010) Theorising mobility: migration, nomadism, and the social reconstruction of ethnicity. In: Romani Mobilities in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 14-15 January 2010, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

Acton, Thomas (2009) Roma, Gypsy, traveller identities: history, complexity and ethnicity, an introduction for service providers. In: Making Roma voices heard in Sandwell, 25th September 2009, Brushstrokes Community Centre, St.Philips Parish Center, Sandwell, West Midlands. (Unpublished)

Acton, Thomas (2009) Has the cultural studies critique of classical sociology run its course? In: Sociology at the crossroads: 39th world congress of international institute of sociology, 11th - 14th June 2009, University of Yerevan, Armenia. (Unpublished)

Acton, Thomas (2009) The challenge of the new paradigm in Romani studies for sociology? In: Sociology at the Crossroads: 39th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, 11-14 June 2009, University of Yerevan, Armenia. (Unpublished)

Acton, Thomas (2009) Has cultural studies sounded the death-knell of classical sociology prematurely?: the view from Romani studies. In: School of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Conference, 28 May 2009, University of Greenwich, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Acton, Thomas (2009) The marginalisation of Romani studies within the academic community. In: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 16-18 April 2009, Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff. (Unpublished)

Acton, Thomas and Marsh, Adrian (2008) “Glocalisation”: a new phenomenon or an age-old process? current adaptations in changes in Gypsy/Roma/Traveller identity in the Turkish Republic. In: “Sociology Looks at the Twenty-first Century: ‘From Local Universalism to Global Contextalism’“ 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, 26 - 30 June 2010, Central European University, Budapest. (Unpublished)

Acton, Thomas (2008) Universalising religions and cultural particularisms: the effects of renewed international migration on the engagement of Gypsies/Roma/Travellers with world religions since 1989. In: Sociology Looks at the Twenty-first Century: ‘From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism’ 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, 26-30th June 2008, Central European University, Budapest. (Unpublished)

Monograph

Acton, Thomas and Marsh, Adrian (2007) Charting the variety of aspirations of Romani/Gypsy groups in Turkey. Project Report. Economic and Social Research Council, Swindon .