Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 265 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9783031357992
,
303135799X
Series Statement:
Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe
Content:
This book analyzes two Romanian villages 2 Mai and Vama Veche as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and everyday life. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it considers a broad range of sources, including official Communist Party documents, secret police files, personal memoirs, oral history interviews, ethnographic films, songs, and artistic performances. This book intertwines three narrative threads: that of the visitors (mainly members of the Romanian intelligentsia, young people, and hippies); that of the local inhabitants; and that of 'authority' (local and central state agents actively engaged in surveillance and supervision). In doing so, it interrogates the spectrum of consent/dissent and resistance/collaboration hitherto neglected in scholarship. Ruxandra Petrinca is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest and a researcher at the Museum of Communist Horrors in Romania
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contribution to Original Knowledge -- Contribution of Authors -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Literature Review -- Sources -- Overview of Chapters -- 2 Permeable Borders, Geographical Markers, and Ethnic Diversity in Dobrogea -- Introduction -- The Historical Region of Dobrogea -- The Socialist Period -- Genius Loci: The Villages of 2 Mai and Vama Veche -- Legacy and Change: The City of Mangalia -- Conclusion -- 3 Varieties of Socialist Tourism: Individual and Communal Holidays on the Southern Shores of the Black Sea
Content:
Introduction -- Tourism, the Most Successful Socialist Experiment -- Alternative Socialist Vacation Spaces -- Emblematic Figures: Nina Cassian -- Other Tourists -- Camping -- Emblematic Figures: Dan Constantinescu -- Food and Drinks -- Parties -- Nudism -- State-Sponsored and Individual Tourism in Vama Veche -- Hippies -- Artistic Creation and Acts of Resistance -- Labels, Brands, and Definitions -- Sites of Cultural Opposition -- Conclusion -- 4 Locality and Community: Landscape, Temporality, and Transformation -- Introduction -- Kinship and Tourism -- Gender, Agency, and Hospitality
Content:
Case Study: Tudoriţa Palelica -- Cooking -- Stories and Storytellers -- Radio Waves -- Urbanization -- The Physical Organization of Space, Dwellings, and Community Life: Courtyards, Porches, Gardens and Orchards -- Politics of Landscape-Spatiality, State Intervention, Temporality -- Conclusion -- 5 Supervision, Transgression, and Co-habitation: The Secret Lives of Liminal Spaces -- Introduction -- The Department of State Security (Securitate), the Secret Police of the Socialist Republic of Romania -- Individual Files -- The Limanu File -- Case Study: Dionisie Alexandru -- Case Study: Cadir Izet
Content:
Foreign Tourists -- Surveillance of Tourists-Nina Cassian -- Case Study: Virgil Mazilescu -- The Permit for Small-Scale Cross-Border Commerce and Socialist Village Black Market Economy -- Surveillance of the Collective Farms -- Case Study: Naum Roman -- Additional Layers of Surveillance: The Revenue Agency and the National Office for Tourism (O.N.T.) -- Additional Layers of Surveillance: The Border Patrol -- Conclusion -- 6 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031357985
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3031357981
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Canache, Ruxandra-Iuliana Marginal Spaces and Cultures of Dissent in Socialist Romania's Black Sea Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2023 ISBN 9783031357985
Language:
English
Bookmarklink
