Zombie socialism and the rise of neoliberalism in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe

Chelcea, Liviu; Druţǎ, Oana

doi:10.1080/15387216.2016.1266273

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“…This effectively excluded Roma from the list of recognized minorities, who had enjoyed certain rights up to 1989. The general post‐socialist situation of the Roma population in the 1990s and subsequent decades was significantly influenced by economic factors, with a large number of Roma becoming jobless after the onset of deindustrialization (for an excellent account of this wider context, namely, ‘zombie socialism’, see Chelcea and Druta, ). Many families migrated to Western Europe (although this was not an option for everyone), while many continued to live in poverty within Romania (Creţan, ).…”

Section: Roma In Romania: Historical Context and Situating ‘Wealthy Rmentioning

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“…This man compares the Roma's situation in the communist era with that in the current era, in which anti‐Roma views seem to be expressed more openly and freely (see Creţan and Turnock, ; Chelcea and Druta, ). Roma were ‘respected’, protected by law, and economically included (Guy, ) under the communist regime, as ethnic differences were downplayed and class took centre stage.…”

Section: Wealthy Roma In South‐western Romania: Stigma Public Space mentioning

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The Power of Group Stigmatization: Wealthy Roma, Urban Space and Strategies of Defence in Post‐socialist Romania

Creţan

Powell

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The Power of Group Stigmatization: Wealthy Roma, Urban Space and Strategies of Defence in Post‐socialist Romania

Creţan

Powell

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Chelcea and Druta (2016) show that it was the hybridization of ritualistic anti-communist incantations and a neoliberal doxa that helped reprogramme institutional arrangements as well as subjectivities, expectations and everyday practices in previously socialist countries. Chelcea and Druta (2016) show that it was the hybridization of ritualistic anti-communist incantations and a neoliberal doxa that helped reprogramme institutional arrangements as well as subjectivities, expectations and everyday practices in previously socialist countries.…”

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The Urbanization of Nature in a (Post)Socialist Metropolis: An Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening

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Boumová²

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article we explore how nature becomes part of the city through the example of allotment gardening in the city of Prague, in the Czech Republic. Prague allotments were established based on an ongoing political‐ecological process of urbanization of nature that was locally driven by socialist (from 1948 to 1989) and later neoliberal governance. We employ a situated urban political ecology (UPE) approach to analyse changes in the planning of allotments and the impact thereof on the experience of gardeners. This double focus allows us to uncover the effects of neoliberalization on the processes of production of urban nature in respect of both policy and everyday practice. We contrast contemporary capitalist urbanization with its socialist predecessor by showing the immediate effects of the acceptance of neoliberal modes of governance on allotments, urban nature and the understanding of the city. We open allotments as a terrain for UPE to turn attention to the (uneven) production of urban nature in a post‐socialist context that has thus far been largely absent from the UPE literature. We demonstrate that post‐socialist urbanization is a fruitful terrain that offers new opportunities to unmask the effects of neoliberalization on the production of uneven urban space and thus improves our understanding of contemporary uneven urbanisms.

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“…From the early 1990s onward, the cultural doxa ran that the country must be “modernized,” rejecting everything associated with its recent past. The ruling classes, within the EU and other international bodies, translated this into the massive privatization and then financialization of housing, industry, and public space (Chelcea and Druţţn 2016; Deoancă 2017; Vincze 2017). Many have felt and lived the consequences.…”

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2020

Cult. Anthropol.

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This essay examines the politics of home in underground Bucharest, and the ways relationships of care among homeless drug users emerge amid everyday violence and exclusion, illuminating the unconventional practices of belonging that take shape in transient communal spaces such as underground electric, transportation, and waste‐management systems. The traces of systemic exclusion in these experiences converge in makeshift forms of kinship and care, provoking questions of solidarity, fragility, and the political potential of recognizing such forms through ethnographic collaboration.

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Zombie socialism and the rise of neoliberalism in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe

Cited by 201 publications

References 61 publications

The Power of Group Stigmatization: Wealthy Roma, Urban Space and Strategies of Defence in Post‐socialist Romania

The Power of Group Stigmatization: Wealthy Roma, Urban Space and Strategies of Defence in Post‐socialist Romania

The Urbanization of Nature in a (Post)Socialist Metropolis: An Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening

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