Between Limits, Lures and Excitement: Socialist Romanian Holidays Abroad during the 1960s–80s

Stefan, Adelina

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“…Thus, simultaneously and contradictorily, population movement was both a register of modernization and regime legitimation as well as an absolute threat to that legitimation (Cirniala, 2014: 45). Movement was essential to the development project of socialist regimes, illustrated by improved roads, railroads, and other public transportation, the growth of private automobile ownership (Siegelbaum, 2013), encouragement of internal tourism, and even the occasional dispensation of passports for touring abroad (Stefan, 2014). At the same time, individual access to mobility and transportation implied the potential escape of individuals from the eyes of the police and eased entry of people into places where the Party's domination of corporate life was also largely absent.…”

Section: Transportation and Mobility In Socialist Society And Culturementioning

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’Did You Arrive by Train or by Ship?:’ Transportation as Politics and Metaphor in Fieldwork in Socialist Romania

Kideckel

2018

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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This essay considers how transportation and mobility model the character of Romanian-American interaction during fieldwork from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Transportation in socialist Romania was a register of modernization and regime legitimation as well as an absolute threat to that legitimation. Official suspicions of movement and political concern about transportation translated into differentially restricting, policing, and limiting availability of transportation. In contrast anthropological fieldwork is predicated on movement while Western culture also claimed free mobility as a cultural good. These different teleologies provoked diverse disjunctures in my interactions with Romanians. While I engaged with Romanians naively, my travelling together with people either gave them cover for resistance or provoked their fear of political exposure. Sharing transportation resources with Romanians encouraged others’ concerns about my alleged political bias or was used to affirm socialist superiority. In other words, transportation during socialism was never neutral, but freighted politically and culturally confrontational.

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Section: Transportation and Mobility In Socialist Society And Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

’Did You Arrive by Train or by Ship?:’ Transportation as Politics and Metaphor in Fieldwork in Socialist Romania

Kideckel

2018

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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From Peasant Workers to Amenity Migrants. Socialist Heritage and the Future of Mountain Rurality in Romania

Membretti¹,

Iancu²

2017

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Dai contadini operai agli amenity migrants. L'eredità del socialismo e il futuro del ruralismo montano in Romania

Membretti¹,

Iancu²

2017

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Between Limits, Lures and Excitement: Socialist Romanian Holidays Abroad during the 1960s–80s

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

’Did You Arrive by Train or by Ship?:’ Transportation as Politics and Metaphor in Fieldwork in Socialist Romania

’Did You Arrive by Train or by Ship?:’ Transportation as Politics and Metaphor in Fieldwork in Socialist Romania

From Peasant Workers to Amenity Migrants. Socialist Heritage and the Future of Mountain Rurality in Romania

Dai contadini operai agli amenity migrants. L'eredità del socialismo e il futuro del ruralismo montano in Romania

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