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Actually Existing Geopolitics of Urban Knowledge Production. Questioning the ‘From Anywhere’ of Urban Theorising

Geography Compass, Volume 19, Issue 2, February 2025.
ABSTRACT This article addresses the geopolitics of urban knowledge production by focussing on articles published in the past six years (2018–2023) in six ‘international’ journals. It aims to contribute to ongoing debates on the questioning of Anglo‐American hegemony and the decolonisation of geographic scholarship through the analysis of the where of ...
Francesca Governa, Chiara Iacovone
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GROWTH POLE DEVELOPMENT AND ‘METROPOLIZATION’ IN POST-SOCIALIST ROMANIA [PDF]

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai: Geographia, 2014
Growth Pole Development and ‘Metropolization’ in Post-Socialist Romania. During the transition period the spatial planning institutions of Romania have undergone a constant and radical change from the communist system, based on state led ...
J. BENEDEK, M. CRISTEA
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Hungarian Minority Politics in Post-Socialist Romania: Interests, Strategies, and Discourses

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies, 2016
This paper analyses the integration strategies formulated by the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania and the Hungarian political elite in the post-communist period. It argues that the internal debates of the political community are formulated in
Toró Tibor
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Liquid homeownership: Navigating future horizons to turn homeownership into assets in Bucharest, Romania

Economic Anthropology, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract This article examines the financialization and assetization of housing in an Eastern European context by focusing on the specific temporally bounded financial strategies to maintain housing as an asset and vehicle for social reproduction. It proposes the concept of liquid homeownership to account for the varied associations of housing with ...
Alexandra Ciocanel
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LAND USE CHANGES AND LAND DEGRADATION IN POST-SOCIALIST ROMANIA [PDF]

Revue Roumaine de Géographie, 2010
La communication se concentre sur l’analyse des principaux changements produits dans l’utilisation des terrains durant la période post-socialiste, quand on a passé d’une concentration excessive de la propriété sur la terre à un émiettement exagéré de ...
DAN BĂLTEANU, ELENA-ANA POPOVICI
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Staying with the blackout: an insecure anthropology of energy

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 892-911, December 2024.
Abstract In the twenty‐first century, blackouts have settled into a familiar sequence of events in the fully electrified world. After jolting publics into a sudden awareness of energy assemblages, they gradually disappear from public memory. This article is an exercise in dwelling on blackouts that have already begun to recede from public memory so as ...
Canay Özden‐Schilling
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How Does the Changing Access to Resources Affect the Power and Authority of the Postsocialist Romanian State?

Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People, 2013
In the past two decades, former postsocialist countries such as Romania have experienced very radical changes in terms of government and resource policy (Swinnen, 1997; Swinnen et al., 1997; Szelenyi, 1998; Turnock, 1998).
Madalina Epure
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Peoplehood and the Orthodox person: a view from central Serbia

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 320-338, June 2024.
Abstract Practising Orthodox Christians in central Serbia live their liturgical lives within the idiom of Serbian peoplehood. This article probes the ‘people’ (narod) – perceived locally as an historically and geographically rooted ethno‐moral collectivity – as a core concept of belonging which is key for understanding post‐Yugoslav Orthodox life. The ‘
Nicholas Lackenby
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Mobilising "culture" and "religion": Ritual practices and social relations among two minority groups in rural Transylvania

Sociologie Românească, 2010
This article is based on an ethnographic study of a Transylvanian village inhabited by Hungarians and Roma. I analyse the processes of ritual revitalisation which is characteristic of the postsocialist period. My main argument is that religion and ritual
László Fosztó
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LAND USE CHANGES IN POST-SOCIALIST ROMANIA. CASE STUDY: BISTRIȚA VALLEY, NEAMȚ COUNTY

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai: Geographia, 2019
Land use and vegetation density are by far a major feature of post-socialist Romania. Free access to Landsat imagery archive makes it possible to track these changes in time and link them to their causes and other factors that facilitated the changing ...
Elena-Manuela BÎRSĂNUC
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