A Concise History of Romania

Hitchins, Keith

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“…The idea gained particular traction during the 19 th century, when Wallachia and Moldavia began to argue for independence from the Ottoman Empire which had ruled over the region for centuries. In order to achieve independence, politicians and intellectuals in the territories appealed to the Western European powers on the basis of their shared Roman heritage-the 'Romanians', as the sons of Rome, clearly belonged with the enlightened, civilised West rather than the despotic, barbarian Orient (Hitchins 2014). It was an effective appeal, and resulted in the establishment of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in 1859, and the independent Romanian principality in 1877.…”

Section: Nationalism and The Romans In Romaniamentioning

confidence: 99%

Postnationalism and the Past: The Politics of Theory in Roman Archaeology

Hanscam

2019

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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European archaeology faces two significant challenges: the intractability of old national narratives about the past, combined with the resurgence of reactionary populism, and the need to update the toolkit of social archaeological theory to meet the challenges presented by the current global political climate. The theory of postnationalism offers one way of addressing both the present political situation and the need to rejuvenate archaeological theory to meet this danger-it provides both a warning of how nationalism continues to influence research and an entreaty for archaeology to embrace its political nature. By exploring the history of scholarship and politics in Roman archaeology in Romania and the public reception of Roman studies in Britain through the lens of postnationalism, this paper argues that while the past has always been and always will be political, archaeology as a discipline is at a watershed moment-archaeologists must become unapologetic political actors.

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Section: Nationalism and The Romans In Romaniamentioning

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Postnationalism and the Past: The Politics of Theory in Roman Archaeology

Hanscam

2019

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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“…In the context of the communist regime, where the communist leadership aimed to reshape and reorder the societal structure, where individualism was suppressed in favour of collectivism, yet at the same time, where Ceaușescu's regime of nepotism and corruption was installed (Hitchins, 2014), any particular changes in the way of eating and cooking, and thus changes in taste preferences, can shed light upon cultural changes difficult to observe in other collections of numbers, statistics and facts.…”

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“…Romania before, and Romania after communism, are two very different countries (Hitchins, 2014). After World War I, Romania had a King linked to the major houses of Europe and a Queen who was Queen Victoria's of England own niece, as well as a foreign policy that "skilfully balanced relations with the Allies and the Axis" (King 2007).…”

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“…Romanian communists aimed to fundamentally reorder the societal structure, the lifestyle and the spiritual life of the peasant. Individualism was suppressed in favour of collectivism; individual farms were transformed into factories and peasants into factory workers (Hitchins, 2014). As one of the main goals of the social restructuring work done by the Communist Party in Romania was the creation of classes, the emphasis was put on developing the working class, on obedience and conformity.…”

Section: Communist Propaganda -Nicolae and Elena; Ceausescu Planting mentioning

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Altering Cooking and Eating Habits during the Romanian Communist Regime by Using Cookbooks

Ghita

2018

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This digital project examines the role of a cook book, Sanda Marin’s Carte de Bucate, first published in 1936, as a vehicle for social education in Communist Romania. The book was censored and transformed during the Communist regime as two interconnected phenomena were taking place: the reinforcing of the ideology of the Communist model and an increasing economic crisis that led to scarcity of food. The paper also pays attention to how the language and tone used in the book changed depending on the understanding of gender roles in different decades. In spite of Communist claims of an equal division of responsibilities, procuring of food and cooking was considered a woman’s task. By addressing equal responsibility in the public sphere, not at home, the progress toward gender equity reached after the War was completely erased during communism since women had to work and also be responsible for all domestic duties at home, a situation that has been similar in other eastern European countries to this day.

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“…This particular ideology has been perfected by Romanian Orthodox theologians not only before and during the Second World War, but also during Communist times and even to this day. Dangerously combining Eastern Orthodox spirituality, militan nationalism, and ethnic enthusiasm [16], leading representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church including Teoctist, the former Patriarch, and Dumitru Stăniloae, the theologian par excellence of the Romanian Orthodox Church, as well as a significant number of intellectuals like Simion Mehedinți and Nicolae Iorga made significant steps towards convincing Romanians that they were so very special that they should be perpetually proud of themselves for any positive achievement while remaining simultaneously vigilant as well as critical of other nations, especially Hungarians, Jews, and Gypsies, for any negative developments [17].…”

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Negative Ecodomy in Romanian Politics and Religion: Anti-Muslim Attitudes in the Bucharest Mosque Scandal during the Summer of 2015

Simuţ

2015

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This paper focuses on a chronology of events presented by the Romanian media, especially newspapers with national coverage and impact like Gândul and Adevărul, between the first week of June to the first week of September 2015, when the issue of having a mosque erected in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, was intensely debated by intellectuals, politicians, and religious professionals. The debates were intensely heated from the onset of these events and most of them revealed that most of the participants were driven by anti-Muslim attitudes, xenophobia, and assertive nationalism, a complex of feelings that I called "negative ecodomy". The concept of "negative ecodomy" presupposes an attempt to built a safe environment, in this case for Romanians in their own country, but the adjective "negative" was added to the the positive idea of "ecodomy" because these efforts to offer a safe context for Romanians were accompanied by the negativity of anti-Muslim, xenophobic, and nationalistic activities. This array of negative ecodomic attitudes were displayed by Romanians not only in online media but also in the street through protests and other similar actions in a country which has been a member of the European Union for almost a decade and was supposed to adhere to the European Union's basic principles of multiculturalism and the free circulation of persons. The totality of these events show that Romanians are still rather far from accepting the European Union's fundamental philosophy or perhaps these principles themselves should be reconsidered and reinterpreted in the context of the massive Middle Eastern and African immigration and the constant, if not increasing threat of Islamic terrorism. OPEN ACCESS

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A Concise History of Romania

Cited by 68 publications

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Postnationalism and the Past: The Politics of Theory in Roman Archaeology

Postnationalism and the Past: The Politics of Theory in Roman Archaeology

Altering Cooking and Eating Habits during the Romanian Communist Regime by Using Cookbooks

Negative Ecodomy in Romanian Politics and Religion: Anti-Muslim Attitudes in the Bucharest Mosque Scandal during the Summer of 2015

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