Book review – Roland Cvetkovski & Alexis Hofmeister, An Empire of Others: Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR, Central European University Press, Budapest, 2014.

Migrants’ houses built in homeland in the representations of Romanian migrants

Migrants’ houses built in homeland are endowed with different significations: several migrants perceives them as a way to validate their social status within the community of origin, while others may conceive them as an...

The impending collapse of the European Urban middle class: The European Union's de-naturing of space and place

The authors argue that the various middle classes of Europe, especially Western Europe, are being fragilised as a result of globalization, certain political tendencies and especially by the standardization of space and p...

Portrayals of Romanian migrants in ethnic media from Italy

Based on a qualitative content analysis of a small corpus of newspaper articles, the paper aims to identify the representations of Romanian migrants in the Romanian media from Italy by exploring the portrayals of the mai...

Celebrating the royal liturgy within the national calendrical memory – The politics of festive time in the Romanian Kingdom, 1866–1947

The paper analyzes the calendrical struggles over mastering symbolic time in Romanian modern history by scrutinizing the logic of constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing a temporal order made up of political hol...