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Author Dorondel, Ștefan, 1968- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 8
Environment in history ; v. 8.
Summary "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"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.
Contents 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Environmental policy -- Romania.
Environmental policy.
Romania.
Romania -- Rural conditions.
Rural conditions.
Landscape changes -- Romania.
Landscape changes.
Deforestation -- Romania.
Deforestation.
Peasants -- Romania -- Social conditions.
Peasants.
Social conditions.
Land use -- Environmental aspects -- Romania.
Land use -- Political aspects -- Romania.
Land use -- Environmental aspects.
Social change -- Romania.
Land use.
Post-communism -- Environmental aspects -- Romania.
Post-communism.
Neoliberalism -- Environmental aspects -- Romania.
Neoliberalism.
Land use -- Political aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Social change.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
Peasants -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Dorondel, Ștefan, 1968- Disrupted landscapes. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016 9781785331206 (DLC) 2015034845 (OCoLC)917355351
ISBN 9781785331213 (electronic book)
1785331213 (electronic book)
9781785331206
1785331205
Standard No. 40025923201