Although postsocialist Romania ranks as one of the most religious countries in Europe, the
role of religion in public life is relatively little understood. This book investigates a village in …

Focusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Socialist Heritage explores the socialist state's
attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project. Contrary to …

During the past decade and a half, calls for the 'natural'restitution of residential property
(houses and apartments) abusively confiscated by the communist regime during the period …

What happens to legal and rights consciousness when rights previously protected are taken
away? In this article, I investigate the process of contesting urban housing nationalization in …

Subverting Communism in Romania explores the role of law in everyday life and as a
mechanism for social change during early communism in Romania. Mihaela Serban focuses …

This dissertation examines the representations of history and social imaginaries underlying
three temporally distinct projects of" heritage development": 1) the transformation of a central …

The article analyses the exceptionalism of housing during the early communist period in
Romania, in particular the extent to which the regime's ambivalent policies regarding …

This chapter examines the survival of private property during the early transition to
communism in Romania at the intersection of state policies, ideologies, and legal practices …

This article analyzes rights consciousness as distinct from legal consciousness, and uses
the post-1989 housing restitution in Romania to study property rights consciousness as a …

In March 1977 an exceptionally strong earthquake struck Romania ruled by the communist
president and dictator Nicolae Ceau? escu and his regime. The policies and actions …