Article

Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 , McDonagh, Chelsea and Acton, Thomas (2023) Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of gypsy, roma, and traveller students in higher education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44 (3). pp. 485-503. ISSN 0142-5692 (Print), 1465-3346 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2023.2167702)

Smith, David Martin and Acton, Thomas (2017) The campaign for a National Strategy for Gypsy site provision and the role of Public Health activism in the 1960–1970s. Journal of Public Health Policy, 38 (4). pp. 429-444. ISSN 0197-5897 (Print), 1745-655X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-017-0091-y)

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

Acton, Thomas (2008) Has Rishi gone out of style? Academic and policy paradigms in Romani Studies. Roma (Journal of the Indian Institute of Romani Studies) (56-57). pp. 31-38.

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:https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870701599648)

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

Acton, Thomas (2007) Book Review: The Gypsy Debate: Can Discourse Control?. Joanna Richardson. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2006. Pp. iv+151. ISBN 1-84540-057-7 (pbk): £17.95. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 28 (4). pp. 343-345. ISSN 1747-7557 (Print), 0143-4632 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/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:https://doi.org/10.3828/rs.2007.11)

Acton, Thomas (2006) Book Review: Gypsy Traveller Students in Secondary Schools: Culture Identity and Achievement. Chris Derrington and Sally Kendall. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, 2004. Pp. xii+206. ISBN 1-85856-320-8 (pbk): £17.99. Traveller Education: Changing Times, Changing Technologies. Ken Marks. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, 2004. Pp. vi+30. ISBN 1-85856-351-8 (pbk) £10.99. Traveller Education: Accounts of Good Practice. Chris Tyler (ed.). Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, 2004. Pp. xii+164. ISBN 1-85856-308-9 (pbk): £16.99. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 27 (4). pp. 353-355. ISSN 0143-4632 (Print), 1747-7557 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.2167/jmmd514b.0)

Acton, Thomas (2006) Conflict Resolution and Criminal Justice - Sorting Out Trouble : Can Legislation Resolve Perennial Conflicts Between Roma/gypsies/travellers and "national Majorities"? Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 51. pp. 29-49. ISSN 0732-9113

Book Section

Acton, Thomas A. (2014) New religious movements among Roma, Gypsies and travellers: Placing Romani Pentecostalism in an historical and social context. In: Thurjfell, David and Marsh, Adrian, (eds.) Romani Pentecostalism: Gypsies and Charismatic Christianity. Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, pp. 23-30. ISBN 978-3-631-64885-8

Acton, Thomas (2010) Introduction: a new turning point in the debates over the history and origins of Roma/Gypsies/Travellers. In: Le Bas, Damian and Acton, Thomas, (eds.) 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: Orta, Lucy, (ed.) 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: Hayes, Michael and Acton, Thomas, (eds.) 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: Junghaus, Timea and Székely, Katalin, (eds.) 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) Refusing exclusion. In: Politi, G., Sharp, C., Uhlirova, K., Foltyna, L. and Gute, C., (eds.) Praguebiennale 3: Glocal and Outsiders: Connecting Cultures in Central Europe. Giancarlo Politi, Milan, Italy, pp. 393-394. ISBN 9788878161429

Acton, Thomas (2007) Second site. 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 Conference Paper

Acton, Thomas (2011) The Roma community in the United Kingdom - Its history, culture and contemporary situation: An introduction for service providers. In: Roma Half Day Seminar, 23 February 2011, Millfield Arts Centre. (Unpublished)

Acton, Thomas (2010) From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the first Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale – from the world of Agnes Daroczi to the world of Daniel Baker. In: Culture and the Making of Worlds - European Sociological Association Sociology of Culture Conference, 7-9 Oct 2010, Universita Bocconi, Milan, Italy. (Unpublished)

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) Citizenship and the Roma/Gypsy/Travellers. In: Towards a Sociology of Citizenship, 105th Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association 2010, 14-17 Auguat 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (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) New religious movements among Roma Gypsies and Travellers: placing Romani Pentecostalism in historical and social context. In: Romani Pentecostalism, 5-7 Nov 2009, Södertörn University, 141 89 Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden. (Unpublished)

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) A new international Romani aesthetic? In: Annual Meeting and Conference of the Gypsy Lore Society 2009, 27-29 Aug 2009, University of Helsinki, Finland. (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) Building a new common gaze: Lessons from the new English Roma/Gypsy/Traveller art. In: Lecture Series in connection the exhibition ‘Living Together: Estrategias para la convivencia’, 22 April 2009, Montehermoso Cultural Centre in Vitoria, Spain.

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 (2008) The origins of Gypsies/Roma/Travellers: The limitations of a standpoint approach. In: International Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference, 28-30 August 2008, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. (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)

Acton, Thomas and Marsh, Adrian (2007) The development of Roma/Gypsy/Traveller identity during the candidacy for EU membership of the Turkish Republic. In: International Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference, 6-8 September 2007, University of Manchester, UK. (Unpublished)

Monograph

Ryder, A., Acton, T., Alexander, S., Cemlyn, S., Van Cleemput, P., Greenfields, M., Richardson, J. and Smith, D. (2011) A big or divided society? Final report of the panel review into the impact of the Localism Bill and Coalition government policy on Gypsies and Travellers. Project Report. Travellers Aid Trust, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK.

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.