The Struggle for Quotation Marks: Interpretative Frames in Roma Movement Periodicals after 1989
No.4(2010)
Abstract
Keywords:
frames; frame analysis; Roma movement; social movement; self-naming; collective identity; EU structural funds
This article examines the development of framing processes of the so-called Roma movement in the Czech Republic after 1989. Although there have been studies describing several and predominantly general frames in relation to the Roma movement in post-Communist countries, there has still yet to be a systematic analysis. Using frame analysis we examine diagnostic, prognostic and motivational frames in three years – 1992, 1996, 2006. We find important variation over the years and speculate about possible explanatory factors such as changes in integration policies, the level of extreme-right violence, public debate, and opportunities in fundraising. The last part of the article focuses on European Union funding and its possible relation to framing.
frames; frame analysis; Roma movement; social movement; self-naming; collective identity; EU structural funds