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- Krzysztofik, Robert, et al.
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Landscapes with different logics: A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planning
- 2017
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Ingår i: Quaestiones Geographicae. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 2081-6383 .- 0137-477X .- 2082-2103. ; 36:4, s. 29-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with the ways of categorising landscapes as ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ using a physicalist approach, where these terms have special meaning. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the question whether such a division is still meaningful with regard to anthropogenic landscapes, not least in spatial planning. The concerns raised in this paper depart from the increasingly complicated structure of geographical space, including that of anthropogenic landscapes. Our standpoint is illustrated using cases of landscape ambiguities from Poland, Germany, Romania and Greece. Leaning on frameworks of physicalist (mechanicistic) theory, this paper suggests an explanation to the outlined semantic conflicts. This is done by pointing to the relationality between the impact of centripetal and centrifugal forces, the specifics of socio-economic development, as well as the varying landscape forms that emerge from the differences within that development.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic
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Caravan politics in the depoliticised city : Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites
- 2023
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Ingår i: Political Geography. - : Elsevier. - 0962-6298 .- 1873-5096. ; 106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the depoliticisation of Dutch caravan politics, which has resulted in massive pitch shortages threatening the existence of the specific caravan housing culture of Dutch Travellers, Sinti and Roma groups. The rationality underlying the repressive governance of caravans is understood as a depoliticised affirmation of technocratic solutions to an unwanted and racialised housing culture. However, as in many other European countries, Dutch authorities have been summoned to work on Roma and Traveller inclusion programmes and address pitch shortages. The increased pressure on the Dutch government culminated in 2018 when it adopted a new framework that prohibits any further measures to repress caravan culture. In what follows, a situated account of depoliticised caravan politics – and resistance to it (i.e. re-politicisation efforts) – is presented by examining the case of Teersdijk, a large campsite in the city of Nijmegen.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic, 1987-
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Dwelling on Substandard Housing : A multi-site contextualisation of housing deprivation among Romanian Roma
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores the housing situation of Romanian Roma in recent times. Many Romanian Roma are relegated to inadequate living conditions, and this thesis seeks to further our knowledge of the spaces this group inhabits. This is done by focusing on postsocialist urban segregation, institutional intervention inertia, and local efforts made and strategies deployed by Roma to appropriate decent living conditions.Paper I examines the postsocialist relegation of poor Bucharesters to the impoverished southern parts of Ferentari, a neighbourhood in Romania’s capital. The paper proposes a theoretical understanding of Romania’s postsocialist production of urban space by drawing on the housing trajectories of residents of various housing types, ranging from small apartments to newly built slums.Paper II brings the perspective of Bucharest’s local officials to the fore, analysing institutional dynamics and policymaking in Bucharest’s poorest administrative division, where Ferentari is situated. In this article, political inertia is highlighted as comprising a problematic pairing of political disregard of welfare provision and racialised understandings of Ferentari’s citizens. As a result, no concrete and rigorous efforts are made to address the neighbourhood’s obvious problems.Paper III examines the narratives of Romanian Roma who travel to Sweden to earn more income, but where they are also exposed to an unwelcoming context and homelessness. The study helps clarify how certain groups in Europe can be both homeowners and homeless at the same time. This article disputes the assumption that homeownership is a more stable tenure form than for example decommodified rental housing.Paper IV examines two different and highly mobile housing and earning strategies of two related Boyash-Roma communities in two countries: Argentina and Romania. The Argentine case concerns Romanian-speaking Roma involved in street-vending throughout Argentina. The Romanian case concerns Rudari from Vâlcea County, who travel to Sweden primarily to beg. The cases illustrate how two groups have managed to improve their housing conditions in post-crisis and xenophobic contexts.In combination, this multi-site research advances our understanding of the problems Roma face in finding adequate housing. Although continuously marginalised and excluded, Roma still find ways to cope with their situation and even improve their housing.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic, et al.
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Economic Decline, Fishing Bans, and Obstructive Politics : Is there a Future for Small-scale Fisheries in Romania's Danube Delta?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Small-Scale Fisheries in Europe. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030373719 - 9783030373702 ; , s. 47-67
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter describes small-scale fisheries (SFF) in Romania within their historical, economic, and political contexts. It focuses on SSF in the Danube Delta, which was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1993. The chapter highlights that contemporary SSF are small in size, with very few economic opportunities and low capital intensity, yet vital to the Danube Delta’s remaining population. The condition of Romanian SSF is the result of failing post-socialist economic and environmental policies and ignorance of the problems that fishers have to deal with. As a result of flawed policies and environmental decline, the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve is poorly managed. Its implementation is characterized by a lack of interest in developing new economic opportunities for fishers and, more generally, underestimating the local importance of SSF. In order to maintain SSF in Romania, improved monitoring of fisheries data is needed as well as more economic opportunities.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic, et al.
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En modig stadsplanering
- 2022
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Ingår i: PLAN. - 0032-0560 .- 2002-7176. ; 75:7, s. 6-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Hur skulle planering som tar hänsyn till allas rätt till staden se ut? Denna fråga har länge varit aktuell men fått större relevans när det gäller inkluderingen av fattiga EU-migranter som tar sig till rikare delar av regionen i jakten på en bättre försörjning. Dominic Teodorescus och Irene Molinas kulturgeografiska forskning studerar skeenden som placerar och kvarhåller rumänska romer och andra EU-migranter i osäkra levnads- och bostadsförhållanden i Sverige.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic
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Homeownership, mobility, and home : A relational housing study of Argentine Ludar and Romanian Rudari
- 2020
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 116, s. 98-109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the community-led housing practices of two related Boyash-Roma communities in Argentina and Romania. The Argentinean case introduces the story of the Ludar in the Greater Buenos Aires Region, a Romanian-speaking sub-group of the Roma, who likely arrived here between 1880 and 1900. Throughout Argentina, most of the Ludar are involved in street vending. The second case concerns the Roma communities of the Rudari from Vâlcea County in Romania, who travel to Sweden primarily to beg. Although the cases seem unrelated, they demonstrate how close engagement with Roma and their socioeconomic mobility allows experimental comparisons of informality and urban development in various parts of world. While their mobile earning strategies are contested by authorities, they enable many to secure a feeling of belonging in a post-crisis context, characterised by rampant racism, greatly restricted welfare provision and increasingly constrained mobility. The newly emerging homes are understood as spaces of hope and dignity and the coping strategies as processes meant to unmake precarity. In this way, the article contributes to an emerging scholarship of Roma resistance, while informing broader contestations of urban marginality.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic
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Racialised postsocialist governance in Romania’s Urban Margins : housing and local policymaking in Ferentari, Bucharest
- 2019
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Ingår i: City. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 23:6, s. 714-731
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Postsocialist urban development is partially characterised by housing deterioration and the perpetual overrepresentation of Romanian Roma in substandard dwellings. These phenomena are particularly noticeable in the margins of larger Romanian cities. Many poor Romanians found, in urban peripheries, a last resort during a period of economic crisis and housing shortages. In the meantime, public policy and urban planning have focused on maintaining ‘collective order’ and accommodating the wishes of the ‘decently’ housed residents of the city. This is certainly the case in Bucharest, where squatters and homeless people have been expelled from central districts and where the same privileged districts receive substantially more attention. This collective order is apparently deemed more important than the needs of marginalised groups in Romanian society. This article examines how urban marginality is addressed at the municipal level and how ‘parsimonious’ public intervention in poor residential areas is justified. In doing so, I highlight the roles of postsocialist devolution, inadequate use of EU and national funds, and reviving racialisation in reproducing housing poverty.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic, et al.
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Roma beggars in Uppsala : racialised poverty and fallacious homeownership in Romania and Sweden
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Trying to trace a continuous link in time and space, and from a qualitative ethnographic and multi-sited approach to housing and racialised poverty, we analyse the narratives of fifteen Romanian Roma begging outside stores in Uppsala’s inner-city district. The narratives from Uppsala reveal precarious living and housing conditions in Romania. Beggars come to Sweden for more income, but there they are also exposed to homelessness, harsh weather conditions, racism and discrimination. Using a combination of political economy approach for the analysis of housing, with a postcolonial approach to migratory patterns of the racialised and impoverished Roma in Europe/Sweden, we reflect on two main topics: Firstly, while beggars are homeless in Uppsala, paradoxically they are often homeowners in Romania, although their housing conditions are precarious in both places. Secondly, we discuss the relationship between racialisation and the precarious living and housing conditions observed among the Romanian Roma. Grounding our analysis in the empirical material we argue that the very idea of homeownership as a good investment and a more convenient form of tenure than rental housing must be especially disputed in this context. We therefore propose the term fallacious homeownership, to characterise the precariousness of life among these poor and racialised homeowners. This article merges the interests of urban and housing researchers with those from the postcolonial tradition.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic, et al.
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Roma street-workers in Uppsala : racialised poverty and super precarious housing conditions in Romania and Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: International journal of housing policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1949-1247 .- 1949-1255. ; 21:3, s. 401-422
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using a combination of a political economy approach for the analysis of housing with a postcolonial approach to mobility patterns of the racialised and impoverished Roma in Europe, we reflect on the relationship between racialisation and the precarious living and housing conditions of the Eastern European Roma who move from the poorer to the richer countries of the European Union. Through a qualitative and multi-sited approach to housing, we reveal the situation of permanent displacement for racialised Romanian Roma groups in both Sweden and Romania. We have followed Roma street-workers who come to Sweden for earning income in order to improve their homes in Romania, but once there, they are exposed to homelessness, harsh weather conditions, racism and discrimination. We found that the super precarious conditions of housing in Romania push the migrant Roma into even worse housing and living conditions in the destination country, completing a vicious circle of forced nomadism in which the lack of right to decent housing and permanent risk of displacement are central aspects. This article merges the interests of urban and housing researchers with those from the postcolonial tradition.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic
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The Modern Mahala : Making and Living in Romania’s Postsocialist Slum
- 2018
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Ingår i: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 59:3-4, s. 436-461
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Almost 30 years have passed since state-socialism came to an end and several scholars sought to establish how the Romanian housing market has unfolded within a changing economic context and a strongly altered welfare system. This paper considers the most disadvantaged postsocialist groups in Romanian society and aims to advance our understanding of the housing situation in newly concentrated poor urban spaces. In developing such analysis, this article draws on local insights from Ferentari, a neighborhood in Bucharest where most residents I spoke saw a gradual degradation of their dwelling and living environment and do not expect any improvement soon. Not surprisingly, a strong indifference towards present-day politics and a potentially better and more inclusive space has colonized most minds. By studying their housing conditions and socioeconomic situation this article aims to illuminate the sudden emergence and diverse character of Romania’s underprivileged neighborhoods: the modern mahalas.
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