People

Illustration by Cristina Barsony Affording Authenticity and Strategies for Inclusive Heritage-making in a World Heritage Site Irina Dobriță Abstract A growing critical heritage scholarship interrogates the facets of socio-economic, cultural and even spatial exclusion involved in heritage-making and in preserving the integrity and authenticity – particularly of built heritage, historic monuments or cultural landscapes. In the […]

Illustration by Maria Cucu (Dis)Regarding women’s football: marginalized experiences of a sport phenomenon Ileana Gabriela Szasz Abstract The article examines how women in different socio-political contexts in Romania have engaged in football and how they negotiated their path in spite of the systematic and systemic disregard of their participation. For over five decades thousands of

Illustration by Cristina Pîrvu Putih, Bersih, Cantik (White, Clean, Beautiful). Tracing Beauty and Color among Women in Bali and Closer to Home (Romania) Irina Savu Cristea Abstract The desire to have a lighter skin color and the efforts to achieve it are rarely just purely individual choices based on personal style and preferences. Rather the

Illustration by Andreea Chirică When We Write We Listen to Ourselves: Letters from the Imaginary Border Between Research and Friendship Ana Chirițoiu and Izabela Tiberiade Abstract Ami and Izabela are friends. One is an ethnic Romanian and a PhD candidate in anthropology, the other, thirteen years her junior, is an ethnic Roma and an undergraduate

Illustration by Andreea Moise Material, social and political implications of work in and beyond Galați, Romania Gerard A. Weber, Ph.D. Abstract In the last greater than thirty years, the work lives of blue-collar people in Galați, Romania has fundamentally changed. After decades of state-guaranteed employment, many starting in the 1990s were forced into early retirement

Illustration by Ferenczy András Children of Girueta and the Wastelands of Football for All Andrei Mihail Abstract Football can be more than a sport. Obviously, playing football can help improve the health of city dwellers. Accessible pitches, modernized facilities, or well-trained coaches can harness the sport’s popularity to get people to play it. But there