“Everybody Loved Each Other There”: Roma Memories of the One-Time Cinka Panna Colony in Oradea and Its Liquidation during the Communist Times

Plainer, Zsuzsa

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“…Competing minority memories about events from the communist past is the subject of the article "'everybody Loved each Other There'-Roma Memories of the One-Time Cinka Panna Colony in Oradea and Its Liquidation during the Communist Times" by Zsuzsa Plainer. 13 She compares post-socialist memories regarding the local past of two minority groups (Hungarians and Roma) from the Romanian town Oradea. Roma have become a muted group within the non-Roma process of remembering and forgetting the communist past in this town because Hungarian cultural memories marginalize, misunderstand, and misrepresent the Roma colony.…”

Section: Difficult Memories-the Memory Of Conflicts Between National mentioning

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Memory in Post-communist Europe: Controversies over Identity, Conflicts, and Nostalgia

Głowacka-Grajper

2018

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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This article is part of the special cluster titled Social practices of remembering and forgetting of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, guest edited by Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper Controversies over social memory form an important aspect of reality in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe. On the one hand, there are debates about coming to terms with the communist past and the Second World War that preceded it (because important parts of the memory of the war were “frozen” during the communist era), and, on the other hand, and intimately connected to that, are discussions about the constant influence of communism on the current situation. This article presents some of the main trends in research on collective memory in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and reveals similarities and differences in the process of memorialization of communism in the countries of the region. Although there are works devoted to a comparative analysis of memory usage and its various interpretations in the political sphere in the countries of Eastern Europe, there are still many issues concerning daily practices (economic, religious, and cultural) associated with varying interpretations of the war and the communist past which needs further elaboration and analysis.

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Memory in Post-communist Europe: Controversies over Identity, Conflicts, and Nostalgia

Głowacka-Grajper

2018

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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Racialized Housing and Proletarization Policies as Internal Socialist Contradictions: Roma Relocations Between 1975-1989 in Baia Mare, Romania

Zamfir

2023

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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The emergence of the ghetto as an urban social formation is regularly conveyed as a specific neoliberal capitalist product. Based on interviews with inhabitants and policymakers and archival data covering more than two decades, this article brings another dimension to the debates on ghetto formation. It traces the urban spatial politics of managing and containing Roma communities in the Romanian NW city of Baia Mare from the late 1970s until 1989. To this aim, it uncovers the debates and decisions regarding the last stages of socialist urban systematization focused on Hatvan, a Roma neighbourhood, and the subsequent relocation projects. Initially, the socialist administration aimed to assimilate the Roma population into the working class. However, a peculiar segregationist policy followed the failed experiment of expropriation and rehousing into low-quality apartments. In the early 1980s, authorities relocated most Roma in the newly built Vasile Alecsandri district to four new specifically designed apartment buildings nearby. The four blocks on Arieșului Street lacked central heating to prevent the accumulation of arrears – a materialization of the decade-long austerity policies. Other urban Roma were funnelled there as well, thus revealing the racialization policies assembled at the local level. . Just before 1990, Arieșului was abandoned, and many people decided to relocate in what became Craica, a ghetto that is still in existence today.

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“Everybody Loved Each Other There”: Roma Memories of the One-Time Cinka Panna Colony in Oradea and Its Liquidation during the Communist Times

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Memory in Post-communist Europe: Controversies over Identity, Conflicts, and Nostalgia

Memory in Post-communist Europe: Controversies over Identity, Conflicts, and Nostalgia

Racialized Housing and Proletarization Policies as Internal Socialist Contradictions: Roma Relocations Between 1975-1989 in Baia Mare, Romania

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