Disrupted Landscapes

State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-011-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

Reihe: Environment in History: International Perspectives

The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers. From bureaucrats abetting illegal deforestation to peasants opposing government agricultural policies, it reveals the social and political mechanisms by which neoliberalism was introduced into the Romanian landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dorondel, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Figures

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Privatizing the State and the Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape

Chapter 1. Dragomiresti and Dragova: Two Centuries of Ecological and Socio-economic Transformations

Chapter 2. Postsocialism as Neoliberalism: Reorganizing Society and Nature

Chapter 3. Bureaucrats, Patronage, Illegal Logging

Chapter 4. Contested Forest

Chapter 5. Waning Pastures

Chapter 6. Fragmented Lands

Chapter 7. Wasted Rivers

Conclusion: A Disrupted Landscape

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dorondel, Stefan
Stefan Dorondel is a Senior Researcher at the Francisc Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest. He holds doctorates in History and Ethnology from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, and in Agricultural Economics from Humboldt University Berlin. His publications include the co-edited volume At the Margins of History: The Agrarian Question in Southeast Europe (2014).