Stătică, Iulia;
(2021)
Overlapping Nostalgias: Negotiating Space and Labor in the (Post)Communist City of Bucharest.
Space and Culture
, 24
(4)
650 -663.
10.1177/1206331219843811.
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Abstract
This article explores infrastructural transformations within communist and postcommunist Bucharest, arguing that they constituted the foundation for divergent discourses of nostalgia. The themes of production and domesticity provide a spatial focus and a framework for the investigation of this phenomenon in relation to workers as an urban social group. In reference to (post)communist Bucharest, I go beyond the spatial and temporal ambiguity that seems to trigger nostalgia, and I suggest its concrete embodiment in the structure and praxes of the city. I propose that under the communist regime, the experience of nostalgia was a way of coming to terms with the abrupt break from precommunist material and symbolic conditions, while the theme of labor became a vehicle for the normalization of those changes. The understanding and praxes of labor in the new condition of the city became a vehicle for nostalgia, and constituted the main reference point in the appropriation of the new urban and symbolic structure.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Overlapping Nostalgias: Negotiating Space and Labor in the (Post)Communist City of Bucharest |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1206331219843811 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331219843811 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Nostalgia, (post)communism, ideology, housing, labor, infrastructure, Bucharest |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096574 |
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