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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 (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

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.