Confessions of a (former?) colonizer

In autoethnographic, critical, and reflective modes, the author – from the perspective of a veteran scholar of Romani communities in Poland – strives here for a measured retrospection vis-à-vis the ongoing decolonialization of Romani studies (a process in which he has been engaged for over half a century). Discerning many a typically colonizing element in the research practices of others as well as himself, he confronts ethical and substantive assessments of such work. At the same time, the author points to a (perhaps subconscious) sustained coloniality among contemporary critics of Romani studies research conducted by early colonizers. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/ .