Georgescu, Diana;
(2022)
Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania
[By Emanuela Grama. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xviii, 268 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $60.00, paper].
[Review].
Slavic Review
, 81
(1)
pp. 226-227.
10.1017/slr.2022.109.
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Abstract
Emanuela Grama's Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania is a compelling exploration of heritage making as state-making through the lens of the postwar and postcommunist transformations of Bucharest's Old Town. Alternatively known as Lipscani or 'the historic center,' the Old Town is a revealing lens because the socialist and postsocialist states mediated their relation with their citizens - their strategies of inclusion and exclusion - via place and material structures like buildings and objects. The book thus joins a growing body of historical ethnographies of socialist and postsocialist transformations, particularly those on property restitution, changing regimes of value, and collectivization like Katherine Verdery's The Vanishing Hectare (2003) and Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery's Peasants Under Siege (2011) or works on elite changes and continuities such as Szelenyi's "Circulation or Reproduction of Elites" (1995).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania [By Emanuela Grama. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xviii, 268 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $60.00, paper] |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/slr.2022.109 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2022.109 |
| 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. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178240 |
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