ROMANIAN MOUNTAIN COMMONS PROJECT
PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO PROJECT
2024. Opincaru, Irina. Entrepreneurial Community Organizations. Romanian Commons' Governing Institutions as Particular Forms of Social Economy. PhD Thesis. University of Bucharest.
2022. Voicu, Stefan and Vasile, Monica. Grabbing the commons: Forest rights, capital and legal struggle in the Carpathian Mountains
Political Geography 98(4). DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102718
2021. Opincaru, Irina and Vasile, Monica. 2021. Analysis of Legal Framework and Recognition of Romanian Commons: Research Results. Report funded by Common Lands Network.
2021. Iordăchescu, George, Anna Varga, Monica Vasile, Irina Sinziana Opincaru. Homórdkarácsonyfalva Közbirtokosság, ICCA Consortium. Report Territories of Life: 2021 Report. ICCA Consortium: worldwide. Available at: report.territoriesoflife.org
2020, Opincaru, Irina‐Sînziana. Elements of the Institutionalization Process of the Forest and Pasture Commons in Romania as Particular Forms of Social Economy. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, October, https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12294
2019, Vasile M., The enlivenment of institutions: Emotional work and the emergence of contemporary land commons in the Carpathian Mountains, special issue on Institutional Work, eds. Raoul Beunen and James Patterson, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 62(1) https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2018.1500354
2019. Iordăchescu, George-Adrian. Wilderness production in the Southern Carpathian Mountains. Towards a political ecology of 'untouched nature'. PhD Thesis. IMT Lucca.
2018, Vasile M., Formalizing commons, registering rights: The making of the forest and pasture commons in the Romanian Carpathians from the 19th century to post-socialism. International Journal of the Commons. 12(1), pp.170–201. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.805
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Global conference IASC - International Association for the Study of the Commons
Organizers: Utrecht University
Utrecht, 10-14th July 2017
Presentation 1: Monica Vasile: Financialization and distance in the forest and pasture commons of the Romanian Carpathians
Presentation 2: Irina Opincaru: Mountain commons and the social economy in Romania
Presentation 3: Stefan Voicu: "Some sort of joint-stock company": The corporate turn in common-property resource management in the Romanian Carpathian forests
Presentation 4: George Iordachescu: We are building the green backbone of Europe': Wildlife conservation and forest commons' dissolution in Transylvanian Alps
Project poster presentation: Forest Commons in the Romanian Carpathians
Lecture "Associative Environmentality: The Commons in the Carpathian Mountains"
in the lecture series "Lunchtime colloquium" at RCC Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
Munich, 9th February 2017
Link to the video of the talk here.
Our team at IASC Utrecht, July 2017
Rachel Carson Center Lunch Time Colloquium, February 2017
Photo exhibition "The Last Grass" at RCC Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Photographers Stefan Voicu and Arryn Snowball. Curator and text: Monica Vasile.
Opening 29th May 2017
Link here.
Annual conference FLARE - Forests and Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, and Engagement
Organizers: School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
Edinburgh, 2nd-5th December 2016
Presentation 1: Monica Vasile: From production to protection: people and forests in the Romanian Carpathians
Presentation 2: George Iordăchescu: ‘Share if you also love the virgin forests’: Restoring pristine nature in the Romanian Carpathians
Project poster presentation: Forest Commons in the Romanian Carpathians
Organizers: Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University
Poznan, 25th-26th November 2016
Gorge Iordăchescu: On the nature of Nature in Eastern Europe. Which nature is worth protecting and by whom?
Photo from The Last Grass @Arryn Snowball
Presenting at FLARE, Edinburgh 2016
Congress of the Federation of Romanian Forest Owners
Bucharest, 18th October 2016
Presentation: Monica Vasile: Research of associative property forms: a necessity
Link to intervention here.
EASA European Association of Cultural Anthropologists Conference 2016: Anthropological legacies and human futures
Milano, Italy, 20th-23rd July 2016
George Iordachescu: Neoliberal biodiversity conservation and local responses in Southern Carpathian Mountains in Romania
European Conference of IASC (International Association for the Study of the Commons)
Bern, Swizerland, 10th-14th May 2016
Monica Vasile: Multiple Meanings of Forest Commons: producing laws and policies in the Romanian Carpathians
Undisciplined Environments - International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology
Stockholm, Sweden, 20th-24th March 2016
Monica Vasile, Stefan Voicu: The good, the bad and the ugly: struggles in the Romanian forest commons
Romanian Federation of Forest Owners Congress, Bucharest 2016
Presenting in Stockholm, 2016