People

Illustration by Andreea Dumuța Uncitizenship through Evictions Irina Zamfirescu Abstract Two years, seven evictions, almost 300 people for whom the only prospect of housing after eviction was the street. The structural violence in Bucharest is as subtle in its manifestations as it is obvious when we look at the city’s evictions. For the evictees, the waiting […]

Illustration by Sorina Vazelina Reindustrialization, Labor, and Precariousness in Romania: A Case Study of Factories in Baia Mare Raluca Perneș Abstract Tens of thousands of workers are currently employed in factories in the Baia Mare area. Most factories are greenfield projects, while old industrial sites in Baia Mare have been abandoned. Most employees working in

Illustration by Simina Popescu The Construction of an Olfactory Other Ruxandra Păduraru Abstract Sensitivity to certain smells is in fact simply a mask of privilege. The significance of a particular smell is not discovered by differentiating it from other smells (there are no independent forms/means to encode these distinctions) but by discriminating the contexts in