ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the routes of resistance in the discursive domain of Travellers, starting with discourse in the Traveller and official strands of the discursive domain of Travellers, and moving from there into the classroom. The children’s resistance was constructed round ethnicity. The chapter discusses policies for inclusive school provision, and how the racism and its effects can addressed in the formal and informal educational arenas. It examines celebratory cultural/political actions arising from and in connection with community-based education projects with adult Travellers. Victimage is ostensibly the obverse of resistance. A common experience of people who experience assault is loss of power through being ‘done-to’ against their will; in common-sense understandings, passivity is often assumed to be a fixed characteristic of victims. Practices of anti-Traveller racism and exclusion are profoundly enmeshed in, even constitutive of, the discursive domain of Travellers.
