Disrupted landscapes : state, peasants and the politics of land in postsocialist Romania / Stefan Dorondel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorondel, Ștefan, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Environment in history ; v. 8.

The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape changes--Romania.

Landscape changes.

Deforestation--Romania.

Deforestation.

Peasants--Romania--Social conditions.

Peasants.

Land use--Environmental aspects--Romania.

Land use.

Land use--Political aspects--Romania.

Social change--Romania.

Social change.

Post-communism--Environmental aspects--Romania.

Post-communism.

Neoliberalism--Environmental aspects--Romania.

Neoliberalism.

Environmental policy--Romania.

Environmental policy.

Rural conditions.

Land use--Political aspects.

Land use--Environmental aspects.

Social conditions.

Romania.

Romania--Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

xvi, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.

Summary:

"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; 'This is clearly the best study on the environmental history of Romania published to date. It is a paragon of vivid, illustrative, and intimate local history combined with an international outlook'--Joachim Radkau, Universität Bielefeld; 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Disrupted Landscapes takes a broad view of the transformations taking place in rural Romania in the second part of the 2000s. It presents one of the most finely granulated pictures of the workings of power in rural settings'--Diana Mincyte, The City University of New York-New York City College of Technology"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: Privatizing the state and the transformation of the agrarian landscape

Dragomiresti and dragova : two centuries of ecological and socio-economic transformations

Postsocialism as neoliberalism reorganizing society and nature

Bureaucrats, patronage, illegal logging

Contested forest

Waning pastures

Fragmented lands

Wasted rivers

Conclusion: A disrupted landscape.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781785331206

1785331205

OCLC:

917355351

Publisher Number:

99967530665