ROMANIAN MOUNTAIN COMMONS PROJECT
PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO PROJECT
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
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
2018, Vasile M., The vulnerable bison: Practices and meanings of rewilding in the Romanian Carpathians, Conservation and Society 16(3), PP. 217-231. DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_17_113
2017. Bauer, N., Vasile M., Mondini M. The attitudes towards nature, wilderness and protected areas: a way to sustainable stewardship in the South-Western Carpathians, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 61(5-6) pp. 857-877 https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2017.1382337
2015. Vasile M. The Role of Memory and Identity in the Obştea Forest Commons of Romania, in edited volume, eds. David Bollier and Silke Helfrich, Patterns of Commoning, pp. 65-71, Transcript Verlag
2015. Vasile, M. Die Anthropologie der Wälder: Über die Bedeutung von Erinnerung und Identität in rumänischen Gemeinschaftswäldern, in Die Welt der Commons: Muster gemeinsamen Handelns, eds. Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, Transcript Verlag
2015. Vasile M. Self-Sufficiency and “Being One’s Own Master” among Transylvanian Forest Dwellers, in edited volume, eds. Chris Hann and Steven Gudeman, Oikos and Market: Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism, pp. 162-188 London: Berghahn Books
2009. Vasile, M., Mantescu L. Property reforms in rural Romania and community-based forests, [English] Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology) 7, 2 pp. 95-113
2009. Vasile, M. Corruption in Romanian forestry: morality and local practice in the context of privatization, [English] Revista Româna de Sociologie (Romanian Revue of Sociology) 20, 1-2, pp. 105-120
2009. Vasile, M. Regles de propriete et pratiques locales dans les forets communes villageoises de Vrancea: l'obstea d'aujourd'hui (Roumanie) [in French] pp. 93-105 in "Transitions foncières dans les Balkans: Roumanie, Albanie, Grèce" Options Méditerranéennes: Série A. no. 82. Montpellier: CIHEAM-IAMM, 108 p.
2008. Vasile, M. Nature conservation, conflict and discourses around forest management: communities and protected areas from Meridional Carpathians, [English] Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology) 6, 3-4, pp. 87-100
2008. Vasile, M. Un fond fără formă: obştea vrânceană. Statuar şi cutumiar în dinamica definirii unui sistem de proprietatea colectivă [Meanings without forms "the obște" in Vrancea. Statutory and customary processes in the dynamics of defining a system of collective ownership] Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology) 6, 1, pp. 56-73
2007. Vasile, M. Sense of property, deprivation and memory in the case of Obștea Vrânceană. [English] Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology) 5, 2, pp. 114-129
2006. Vasile, M. Obștea today in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania: self-governing institutions of forest commons, [English] Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology) 4, 3, pp. 111-130
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