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Paula Simon

Historian and doctoral candidate in the RTG "Ambivalent Enmity" at Heidelberg University, researching anti-Roma racism in interwar Yugoslavia.

Nov 2, 2026

4:29
Do the sources mostly represent external views of the Serbian Roma or can you also recover the voices of Romani people themselves?
4:40
Yeah, thank you.
4:41
That's a really interesting question and already brings us to the core of my problem with this topic.
4:49
I mean, it's not a problem, it's a challenge.
4:51
But the situation is such that there is... mostly actually external views that can be recovered.
5:00
This is also why two of my three main chapters are basically what I would call research of historical anti-gypsyism.
5:10
So I talk about or I analyze the ways the majority society thinks, writes about, constructs what they see as the gypsy image or what they see are elements of this category that we're talking about.

9 MINS LATER

14:32
So can you give some examples of this fascination and how it is at the same time connected to the devaluation of Roma people?

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