Tag: Romania
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Postsocialist racialised governance in Bucharest
In an earlier contribution I described the housing situation of Ferentari, a neighbourhood in southern Bucharest. The hardships described in that essay are based on research carried out in early 2012. However, one could argue that Romania was still recovering by that time from the rapid economic decline in the 1990s and the subsequent financial…
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Ferentari: Bucharest’s Post-Socialist Ghetto
In this article Dominic Teodorescu reflects on post-socialist urban planning in Bucharest’s most feared neighbourhood and one of Romania’s notorious Romani ghettos: Ferentari. .