Marginal spaces and cultures of dissent in socialist Romania's Black Sea / Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache.
Canache, Ruxandra-Iuliana, author.
2023
DR267
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Title
Marginal spaces and cultures of dissent in socialist Romania's Black Sea / Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache.
Author
Canache, Ruxandra-Iuliana, author.
ISBN
9783031357992 (electronic bk.)
303135799X (electronic bk.)
9783031357985
3031357981
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35799-2
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 265 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-35799-2 doi
Call Number
DR267
Dewey Decimal Classification
949.8/3031
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 13, 2023).
Series
Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe.
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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

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

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

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

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