Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging
Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European
Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on
"performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's
settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in
a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances,
media representations, activism, and interactions with both
non-governmental organizations and state agencies, author Ioana Szeman
grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and
neoliberalism in her subjects' remarkably varied lives and experiences.