Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Romani Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest, UK.
Sociol Health Illn. 2022 Dec;44 Suppl 1:73-89. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13411. Epub 2021 Dec 17.
This paper draws on the experience of two Romani and three non-Romani scholars in knowledge production on the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations. Together, we explore how we might better account for, and work against, the complex web of dynamic oppressions embedded within processes of academic knowledge production. Our aim is to encourage careful scrutiny through which sociologists of health and illness might better recognise our own complicity with oppression and identify concrete actions towards transforming our research practices. Drawing on a well-known domains of racism typology (Annual Review of Public Health, 40, 2019, 105), we use examples from our own work to illustrate three interconnected domains of oppression in which we have found ourselves entangled (structural, cultural and interpersonal). A new conceptual framework is proposed as an aid to understanding the spectrum of different "types" of complicity (voluntary-involuntary, conscious-unconscious) that one might reproduce across all three domains. We conclude by exploring how sociologists of health and illness might promote a more actively anti-racist research agenda, identifying and challenging subtle, hidden and embedded negative ideologies and practices as well as more obviously oppressive ones. We hope these reflections will help revitalise important conversations.
本文借鉴了两位罗姆人和三位非罗姆学者在关于欧洲罗姆人人口健康和社会不平等方面的知识生产经验。我们共同探讨了如何更好地理解和应对学术知识生产过程中嵌入的复杂动态压迫网络。我们的目的是通过仔细审查，鼓励健康和疾病社会学家更好地认识到自己与压迫的牵连，并确定具体行动，以改变我们的研究实践。借鉴著名的种族主义领域分类法（《公共卫生年度评论》，40，2019，105），我们使用自己工作中的例子来说明我们发现自己陷入的三个相互关联的压迫领域（结构、文化和人际）。提出了一个新的概念框架，作为理解在所有三个领域中可能复制的不同“类型”牵连（自愿-非自愿、有意识-无意识）的一种辅助手段。最后，我们探讨了健康和疾病社会学家如何促进更积极的反种族主义研究议程，识别和挑战微妙、隐藏和嵌入的消极意识形态和实践，以及更明显的压迫性意识形态和实践。我们希望这些思考将有助于重振重要的对话。
