Between Trauma and Nostalgia. The Intellectual Ethos and Generational Dynamics of Memory in Postsocialist Romania [PDF]
Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2016 In Romania, as elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the collapse of communism triggered a testimonial drive that shifted from early concerns with victimhood, justice, and retribution to seemingly apolitical revivals of everyday life under socialism. Drawing on a
Georgescu Diana
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Postsocialist Statuary Politics in Romania and Bulgaria: An Ambivalent Socialist Heritage
Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2023 Using an approach situated at the intersection of cultural memory studies and (critical) heritage studies, with a focus on the ambivalent socialist heritage of socialist statues and monuments and their changing role in postsocialist public spaces, this ...
Caterina Preda
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Disrupted Landscapes. State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2016 Stefan Dorondel Disrupted Landscapes.
Wim Van Meurs
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Options for agricultural service cooperatives in a postsocialist economy: Evidence from Romania. [PDF]
Outlook Agric, 2020 Almost three decades since the collapse of the socialist regime, Romania’s farm structure is characterized by a distinct dual pattern. The far majority of farms is relatively small, while a small number manages about half of the total utilized agricultural area. Most farmers face significant constraints in creating viable farm businesses.
Wolz A, Möllers J, Micu MM.
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Countering Illegibility: A Brief History of Forced Evictions in Postsocialist Romania
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2022 Forced evictions have been recognised as a relevant process in Romanian post-socialist urban transformations. Housing privatization, including restitutions, represents the key driver.
Zamfir George Iulian
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The modern mahala: making and living in Romania’s postsocialist slum [PDF]
Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2018 Almost 30 years have passed since state-socialism came to an end and several scholars sought to establish how the Romanian housing market has unfolded within a changing economic context and a stron ...
Dominic Teodorescu
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Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania [PDF]
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2014 The critical study of toponymy has paid considerable attention to the renaming of urban places following revolutionary political change. Such renaming is intended to institutionalize a new political agenda through shaping the meanings in everyday practices and landscapes. Renaming, however, might not always be successful, and this article examines this
Duncan Light, Craig Young
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Old Blouses, Old Houses: Hauntings of Romani Slavery in the Production of Romanian Nationalism
Critical Romani StudiesInternational organizations often hide under a veil of multiculturalism and inclusivity to enable neoliberal and nationalistic governmentalities in postsocialist Eastern Europe.
Stefania Cotei
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Effects of postsocialist deindustrialization in Central and Eastern Europe: Results of an industrial site survey and GIS mapping in Bucharest City, Romania [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2016 This paper examines effects of postsocialist deindustrialization through a case study from Bucharest City, Romania. The paper use scientific papers and real estate company reports to analyse the postsocialist transformation of former industrial buildings
Gabriel Simion
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Timişoara, de la petite Vienne du Banat à la Capitale européenne de la culture
EchoGéo, 2022 Since the fall of the socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, the institutional will to redefine the postsocialist cities' image and identity involves the appreciation of pre-socialist heritage on one hand and the rejection of socialist memories and ...
Amandine Dargaud
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