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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798135203321

Autore

Dorondel Ștefan <1968->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-121-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Environment in History: International Perspectives ; ; Volume 8

Classificazione

MG 94915

Disciplina

333.7309498

Soggetti

Landscape changes - Romania

Deforestation - Romania

Peasants - Social conditions - Romania

Land use - Environmental aspects - Romania

Land use - Political aspects - Romania

Social change - Romania

Post-communism - Environmental aspects - Romania

Neoliberalism - Environmental aspects - Romania

Environmental policy - Romania

Romania Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- Glossary.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--From publisher's website.