S2 Ep5: Home on the move, the Right to Roam

As far back as we can go, communities have been on the move - migrating due to seasons, changing environments, cultures. Yet since 1500s in the UK, the state has clamped down on mobile communities, creating laws specifically to expel Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups or force them to assimilate to static ways of living. 

In this episode Larissa and Zoe get heated about the importance of the Right to Roam for all of us, how living on the move is resistance and ask WHY is the state so scared of mobile communities??? Digressions include whether the #VanLife girlies will join the revolution. 

References:

• What is Gypsy and Traveller resistance? (2023) Chelsea McDonagh
• The PCSC Bill has Failed Gypsies and Travellers - so where do we go next? (2022) Chelsea McDonagh
• How the police Bill targets Gypsies Roma and Travellers (2021) Charlotte Powell
• Land Rights and Nomadic Populations: Indigenous Perspectives (2019) Karen Braun and Jocelyn Davies
• Beyond Borders: A deep dive into the nomadic way of life (2022) David Farley
• The Politics of the Nomad (2009) Yossarian
• The Right to Roam: Travellers and Human Rights in the Modern Nation-State (2010) Dualta Roughneen 
• Silvia Citadini (2021) Social Justice and Adequate Housing: Rights, Roma Inclusion and the Feeling of Home
• UK Right to Roam campaign: https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/
• Isabella Cipirska (2022) The trespassers fighting for our right to roam
• Cittadini, Silvia. "A right to home or an individual preference? The impact of the definition of home in international and European legislation on cases concerning Roma, Travellers, and Gypsies." Romani Studies, vol. 32 no. 1, 2022, p. 85-103. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/859937.
• Roma, poets and storytellers podcast episode
• Kinder Scout Mass Trespass
• The Politics of the Nomad (2009) Yossarian
• The Right to Roam: Travellers and Human Rights in the Modern Nation-State (2010) Dualta Roughneen

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