Cristian Cercel
Biographic Data
| ID | 2364488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristian Cercel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristian |
| FAMILY NAME | Cercel |
| SIGNATURE | CERCEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4798-1705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Visions of Europe in the East of Europe from late socialism to EU enlargement
This introduction argues that Eastern European ideas of Europe were central to the production, contestation, and redefinition of European identity from the 1980s to the present. It charts the history of the ‘eastern ideas’ for the European project over the past four decades, which moved from a mildly enthusiastic, yet ambivalent, ‘return to Europe’, to a sceptical and equally ambivalent ‘after Europe’. The second section discusses the paradoxical…
The emigration solution and the coloniality of migration
Les « Banatais
Cet article traite de l’évolution sur la longue durée du discours sur l’origine – alsacienne, lorraine, française, banataise – des « Banatais » et des constructions identitaires qui lui ont été associées. Il montre comment la communauté imaginaire des « Banatais » s’est élargie ou contractée au cours de l’histoire et comment le discours sur l’origine, à la base de cette construction identitaire, a oscillé constamment entre une logique de séparati…
Germans Abroad? Danube Swabians and the Plurality of Diasporic Possibilities
This article engages with the history of the so-called Danube Swabians from the eighteenth century up to the present as a history of multiple diasporic possibilities. Showing how the Danube Swabian case complicates fixed understandings of homeland and host-state, the article also makes the case that the history of Germans abroad-especially of Germans in the Southeast of Europe-should be released from the tight analytical straitjacket of the Germa…
The persistence and malleability of settlerness
This article interrogates and contextualises the settler identification discourses related to Danube Swabians in Entre Rios/Guarapuava in southern Brazil (Paraná). It looks into the origins of Danube Swabian ‘settlerness’, asking why does it play a central role in Danube Swabian identity constructions in Brazil (but also beyond), and how has it changed over time. It follows settlerness as a thread from before the migration to Entre Rios up to the…
Romania and the Quest for European Identity
Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans predominating in post-1989 Romanian society, this book shows that the underlying reasons for German prestige are strongly connected with Romania’s endeavors to become European. The election, in 2014, of Klaus Iohannis as Romania’s president was hailed as evidence that the country chose a 'European’ future: that Iohannis belonged to Romania’s tiny German minority was also considere…
War in the Museum
This article examines how contemporary war museums represent war and war-making. It looks at and compares the ideas underpinning the permanent exhibitions of two museums – the Historial of the Great War in Péronne (France) and the Military History Museum (MHM) in Dresden (Germany) –, analyzing examples from the exhibitions to illustrate the argument. It also discusses the architecture of these museums and their respective horizontal and vertical …
The Military History Museum in Dresden
This article analyzes the Military History Museum (MHM) in Dresden against the backdrop of recent theoretical elaborations on agonistic memory, as opposed to the cosmopolitan and antagonistic modes of remembering. It argues that the MHM attempts to combine two functions of the museum: the museum as forum and the museum as temple. By examining the concept underpinning the reorganization of the permanent exhibition of the MHM, and by bringing examp…
Reports
War Museums and Agonistic Memory Within the EU-Horizon-2020-funded project Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe (UNREST),1 one work package (WP4) analyzed the memorial regimes of museums related to the history of World War I and World War II in Europe. An article by Anna Cento Bull and Hans Lauge Hansen (2016) entitled “Agonistic Memory” provided the theoretical framework for the analysis. Drawing on Chantal Mouffe’s…
Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey, written by Șener Aktürk
Postwar (West) German–Romanian Relations
This article revisits Rogers Brubaker's well-known triadic nexus, consisting of national minority, nationalizing state, and kin-state, and interrogates its applicability to the study of German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe since the second half of the 20th century. It does that by looking at German–Romanian relations after the Second World War, arguing that the migration of Romanian Germans to (West) Germany led to the transformation o…
Philo-Germanism without Germans in Romania after 1989
This article argues that positive representations of the German minority in post-1989 Romania, discernible in specific memory and identity discourses, are linked to an internalized self-orientalizing view of Romanianness and to a symbolic wish to “belong to Europe,” present in Romanian society and displayed on the Romanian political scene. In other words, it maintains that a phenomenon describable as “philo-Germanism without Germans” in contempor…
Romania under Basescu
Transylvanian Saxon Symbolic Geographies
In Transylvanian Saxon self-identification, representations of the Balkans as the uncivilized region lying on the other side of the Carpathians have constantly circulated, among other things via literary products. The perception of Saxonness as embodiment of a higher culture and symbol of civilization has been accompanied by a perception of the Romanian/Wallachian other as Balkanic, hence backward and uncivilized. Placing these considerations wit…
The relationship between religious and national identity in the case of Transylvanian Saxons (1933–1944)
Hitler's coming to power in Germany had its key consequences upon the fate of the German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. The German community in Romania constituted no exception. After 1933, a process of radicalization can be noticed in the case of the Transylvanian Saxons, one of the several German-speaking groups in Romania. The phenomenon has already been analyzed in its political and economic dimensions, yet not so much in its socia…
War in the Museum
This article examines how contemporary war museums represent war and war-making. It looks at and compares the ideas underpinning the permanent exhibitions of two museums – the Historial of the Great War in Péronne (France) and the Military History Museum (MHM) in Dresden (Germany) –, analyzing examples from the exhibitions to illustrate the argument. It also discusses the architecture of these museums and their respective horizontal and vertical …
Postwar (West) German–Romanian Relations
This article revisits Rogers Brubaker's well-known triadic nexus, consisting of national minority, nationalizing state, and kin-state, and interrogates its applicability to the study of German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe since the second half of the 20th century. It does that by looking at German–Romanian relations after the Second World War, arguing that the migration of Romanian Germans to (West) Germany led to the transformation o…
Romania under Basescu
The persistence and malleability of settlerness
This article interrogates and contextualises the settler identification discourses related to Danube Swabians in Entre Rios/Guarapuava in southern Brazil (Paraná). It looks into the origins of Danube Swabian ‘settlerness’, asking why does it play a central role in Danube Swabian identity constructions in Brazil (but also beyond), and how has it changed over time. It follows settlerness as a thread from before the migration to Entre Rios up to the…
The relationship between religious and national identity in the case of Transylvanian Saxons (1933–1944)
Hitler's coming to power in Germany had its key consequences upon the fate of the German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. The German community in Romania constituted no exception. After 1933, a process of radicalization can be noticed in the case of the Transylvanian Saxons, one of the several German-speaking groups in Romania. The phenomenon has already been analyzed in its political and economic dimensions, yet not so much in its socia…
The relationship between religious and national identity in the case of Transylvanian Saxons (1933–1944)
Hitler's coming to power in Germany had its key consequences upon the fate of the German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. The German community in Romania constituted no exception. After 1933, a process of radicalization can be noticed in the case of the Transylvanian Saxons, one of the several German-speaking groups in Romania. The phenomenon has already been analyzed in its political and economic dimensions, yet not so much in its socia…
Romania under Basescu
Transylvanian Saxon Symbolic Geographies
In Transylvanian Saxon self-identification, representations of the Balkans as the uncivilized region lying on the other side of the Carpathians have constantly circulated, among other things via literary products. The perception of Saxonness as embodiment of a higher culture and symbol of civilization has been accompanied by a perception of the Romanian/Wallachian other as Balkanic, hence backward and uncivilized. Placing these considerations wit…
Philo-Germanism without Germans in Romania after 1989
This article argues that positive representations of the German minority in post-1989 Romania, discernible in specific memory and identity discourses, are linked to an internalized self-orientalizing view of Romanianness and to a symbolic wish to “belong to Europe,” present in Romanian society and displayed on the Romanian political scene. In other words, it maintains that a phenomenon describable as “philo-Germanism without Germans” in contempor…
Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey, written by Șener Aktürk
Postwar (West) German–Romanian Relations
This article revisits Rogers Brubaker's well-known triadic nexus, consisting of national minority, nationalizing state, and kin-state, and interrogates its applicability to the study of German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe since the second half of the 20th century. It does that by looking at German–Romanian relations after the Second World War, arguing that the migration of Romanian Germans to (West) Germany led to the transformation o…
The Military History Museum in Dresden
This article analyzes the Military History Museum (MHM) in Dresden against the backdrop of recent theoretical elaborations on agonistic memory, as opposed to the cosmopolitan and antagonistic modes of remembering. It argues that the MHM attempts to combine two functions of the museum: the museum as forum and the museum as temple. By examining the concept underpinning the reorganization of the permanent exhibition of the MHM, and by bringing examp…
Reports
War Museums and Agonistic Memory Within the EU-Horizon-2020-funded project Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe (UNREST),1 one work package (WP4) analyzed the memorial regimes of museums related to the history of World War I and World War II in Europe. An article by Anna Cento Bull and Hans Lauge Hansen (2016) entitled “Agonistic Memory” provided the theoretical framework for the analysis. Drawing on Chantal Mouffe’s…
Romania and the Quest for European Identity
Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans predominating in post-1989 Romanian society, this book shows that the underlying reasons for German prestige are strongly connected with Romania’s endeavors to become European. The election, in 2014, of Klaus Iohannis as Romania’s president was hailed as evidence that the country chose a 'European’ future: that Iohannis belonged to Romania’s tiny German minority was also considere…
War in the Museum
This article examines how contemporary war museums represent war and war-making. It looks at and compares the ideas underpinning the permanent exhibitions of two museums – the Historial of the Great War in Péronne (France) and the Military History Museum (MHM) in Dresden (Germany) –, analyzing examples from the exhibitions to illustrate the argument. It also discusses the architecture of these museums and their respective horizontal and vertical …
The persistence and malleability of settlerness
This article interrogates and contextualises the settler identification discourses related to Danube Swabians in Entre Rios/Guarapuava in southern Brazil (Paraná). It looks into the origins of Danube Swabian ‘settlerness’, asking why does it play a central role in Danube Swabian identity constructions in Brazil (but also beyond), and how has it changed over time. It follows settlerness as a thread from before the migration to Entre Rios up to the…
Les « Banatais
Cet article traite de l’évolution sur la longue durée du discours sur l’origine – alsacienne, lorraine, française, banataise – des « Banatais » et des constructions identitaires qui lui ont été associées. Il montre comment la communauté imaginaire des « Banatais » s’est élargie ou contractée au cours de l’histoire et comment le discours sur l’origine, à la base de cette construction identitaire, a oscillé constamment entre une logique de séparati…
Germans Abroad? Danube Swabians and the Plurality of Diasporic Possibilities
This article engages with the history of the so-called Danube Swabians from the eighteenth century up to the present as a history of multiple diasporic possibilities. Showing how the Danube Swabian case complicates fixed understandings of homeland and host-state, the article also makes the case that the history of Germans abroad-especially of Germans in the Southeast of Europe-should be released from the tight analytical straitjacket of the Germa…
Visions of Europe in the East of Europe from late socialism to EU enlargement
This introduction argues that Eastern European ideas of Europe were central to the production, contestation, and redefinition of European identity from the 1980s to the present. It charts the history of the ‘eastern ideas’ for the European project over the past four decades, which moved from a mildly enthusiastic, yet ambivalent, ‘return to Europe’, to a sceptical and equally ambivalent ‘after Europe’. The second section discusses the paradoxical…
The emigration solution and the coloniality of migration
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)