Disrupted Landscapes - State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Dorondel, Dorondel Stefan
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781800730113
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-011-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives; Environment in History: Intern
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; NATURE / Natural Resources, Eastern Europe, European History, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Environmental Economics, Environmental Management, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols