Petru Negură
Biographic Data
| ID | 134946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petru Negură |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petru |
| FAMILY NAME | Negură |
| SIGNATURE | NEGURĂ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Applied Physics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5337-0767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond Polarisation
This article examines Moldovans’ social representations of the war in Ukraine using Moscovici's typology of hegemonic, polemical and emancipated representations and a mixed-methods approach. Based on a survey (1,112 respondents), interviews and focus groups, the study identifies a hegemonic representation centred on fear, suffering and aspirations for peace. Polemical representations reveal polarised perspectives on political responsibility, with…
Ambivalente Einstellungen
Béatrice von Hirschhausen
Article Béatrice von Hirschhausen: Les Provinces du temps. Frontières fantômes et expériences de l’histoire was published on June 1, 2025 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 73, issue 2)
What Do Moldovans Think of and How Do They Talk about the Russian Aggression against Ukraine? Prolegomena for Qualitative Inquiry
This essay explores the advantages of a qualitative approach based on a preliminary analysis of a collection of street interviews broadcast from March 2022 to March 2023 in the Republic of Moldova via 34 radio programmes. While the results of the opinion polls reflect a clear division of opinion on the war in Ukraine within Moldovan society along pre-existing geopolitical lines, the interviews highlight the possibility of consensus among responde…
Everyday Ethnicity and Popular Responses to Nation-Building Projects in Moldova After 1989
This introductory article highlights the main developments in the Republic of Moldova from the breakup of the Soviet Union to the present from the perspective of national sentiment and manifestations. Using Mark Beissinger’s concept of “tides of nationalism”, the article examines the bottom-up ethnic mobilisation between the “quiet” and the “noisy” phases of national projects in Moldova. With the persistence of the “quiet” phase of nationalism, i…
Institutional trust and citizen supportfor the government socioeconomic policy in the early phase of the covid-19 pandemic in the Republic of Moldova
This paper analyses the citizens’ attitudes and support for the government initiatives aiming to mitigate the socioeconomic impact of the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Moldova. It draws on mixed method research carried out in the Republic of Moldova, in June and July 2020, by a questionnaire conducted with a nationally representative sample (n=1202), and a qualitative survey utilizing in-depth interviews (n=95). The respondents of the q…
Moldova’s Thirty-Year Search for Independence
Unlike in the Baltics, support for independence in Moldova was relatively low among the political elites and the general population when the Soviet Union collapsed. In the 1990s, the political parties in power pursued an incoherent program, as governments swung between reformist and conservative agendas. Economic crises and systemic corruption depleted citizens’ trust in politicians and state institutions. This low institutional trust has hampere…
Trust in Institutions, Social Solidarity, and the Perception of Social Cohesion in the Republic of Moldova in the Early Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Research shows that social cohesion is crucial to the promotion of public health and the response to pandemic disease. This paper discusses a few key aspects of social cohesion in Moldova in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely trust in the government, social solidarity, and the perception of social cohesion. The article uses data from two sources: first from in-depth interviews carried out in May 2020 with 95 people of high status, a…
Public Education in Romania and Moldova, 19-20th Centuries
Since the second half of the 19th century, Romania has asserted itself, along with other European states, as a “modern mobilizational state”, which aimed to profoundly transform its population and the mass of its citizens through extensive mobilizing and social engineering projects. Public education has played a central role in this ambitious process of social transformation, being an essential tool of state formation and nation-building
Nation-building and mass schooling of ethnic minorities on the Romanian and Soviet peripheries (1918–1940)
The paper examines the local responses to mass schooling in the rural areas of Romanian Bessarabia and Soviet Transnistria (1918–1940). Both Romania and the USSR aimed at deeply transforming the local populations. Romania implemented schooling to assimilate ethnic minorities within the model of a nationalizing state, while the USSR adopted an inconsistent nationalizing policy, determinedly imposing compulsory education for all children. The resis…
Homelessness in a Post-Soviet City
Research has shown that most homeless people suffer from weak support from family, relatives and friends. Based on a descriptive statistical analysis with biographical records of 810 subjects, and a thematic analysis of interviews with homeless people (N = 65), people at risk of homelessness (N = 5) and professionals (N = 20), the article explores the social support system of homeless people from Chisinau (Moldova). Only 18.6 per cent of all user…
Compulsory Primary Education and State Building in Rural Bessarabia (1918–1940)
This article examines the way in which public primary education was established in rural Bessarabia during 1918–1940. The imposition of mass compulsory education resulted from an unequal relationship of power between the state education authorities and the village population, which at times conflicted and at other times negotiated with each other. This process was crucial for the expansion of the state in rural areas and the development of citize…
The State Policy towards the Homeless in Moldova between the 'Left Hand' and the 'Right Hand'. The Case of Chișinău Shelter
The Centre for the Homeless in Chișinău embodies on a small scale the recent evolution of state policies towards the homeless in Moldova (a post-Soviet state). This institution applies the binary approach of the state, namely the 'left hand' and the 'right hand', towards marginalised people. On the one hand, the institution provides accommodation, food, and primary social, legal assistance and medical care. On the other hand, the Shelter personne…
Petru Negură, De la o “eliberare” la alta. Scriitorii basarabeni în primul an de putere sovetică (1940-1941)
The dual aim of this article is, on the one hand, to identify Bessarabian writers’ individual and group rationale to stay in the territory occupied by the Soviet authorities after 28 June 1940 and, on the other hand, to analyse the institutional mechanisms set up by the Soviet authorities (namely the Moldovan Writers Union (MWU) and AgitProp) to integrate these writers into the Soviet cultural system. The three groups of Bessarabian writers remai…
A vant-propos L a M oldavie au défi de crises multiples
Avant-propos La Moldavie au défi de crises multiples
No abstract available
De la punition corporelle à la violence symbolique L'enseignement primaire rural en Bessarabie de l'entre-deux-guerres
L’instauration dans les années 1920 de l’école primaire en Bessarabie laisse des sources écrites et orales nombreuses qui révèlent un climat de tension et de négociation entre la population civile et les agents de la scolarisation. Le ministère régularise l’enseignement primaire des localités rurales en pénalisant des manquements, dont les peines corporelles, et encourage une pédagogie fondée sur une éthique de la discipline et un effort de compr…
L'union des écrivains moldaves à l'époque jdanovienne
La politique soviétique culturelle dite « jdanovienne » s’inscrit dans le contexte autoritaire de l’après-guerre et vise deux objectifs : d’une part, la consolidation et la centralisation du champ culturel soviétique sous l’autorité symbolique du réalisme socialiste, d’autre part, l’intégration culturelle et idéologique des nationalités à la suite de la réorganisation territoriale de 1940. Cet article propose une analyse socio-historique de l’ins…
Everyday Ethnicity and Popular Responses to Nation-Building Projects in Moldova After 1989
This introductory article highlights the main developments in the Republic of Moldova from the breakup of the Soviet Union to the present from the perspective of national sentiment and manifestations. Using Mark Beissinger’s concept of “tides of nationalism”, the article examines the bottom-up ethnic mobilisation between the “quiet” and the “noisy” phases of national projects in Moldova. With the persistence of the “quiet” phase of nationalism, i…
Nation-building and mass schooling of ethnic minorities on the Romanian and Soviet peripheries (1918–1940)
The paper examines the local responses to mass schooling in the rural areas of Romanian Bessarabia and Soviet Transnistria (1918–1940). Both Romania and the USSR aimed at deeply transforming the local populations. Romania implemented schooling to assimilate ethnic minorities within the model of a nationalizing state, while the USSR adopted an inconsistent nationalizing policy, determinedly imposing compulsory education for all children. The resis…
De la punition corporelle à la violence symbolique L'enseignement primaire rural en Bessarabie de l'entre-deux-guerres
L’instauration dans les années 1920 de l’école primaire en Bessarabie laisse des sources écrites et orales nombreuses qui révèlent un climat de tension et de négociation entre la population civile et les agents de la scolarisation. Le ministère régularise l’enseignement primaire des localités rurales en pénalisant des manquements, dont les peines corporelles, et encourage une pédagogie fondée sur une éthique de la discipline et un effort de compr…
L'union des écrivains moldaves à l'époque jdanovienne
La politique soviétique culturelle dite « jdanovienne » s’inscrit dans le contexte autoritaire de l’après-guerre et vise deux objectifs : d’une part, la consolidation et la centralisation du champ culturel soviétique sous l’autorité symbolique du réalisme socialiste, d’autre part, l’intégration culturelle et idéologique des nationalités à la suite de la réorganisation territoriale de 1940. Cet article propose une analyse socio-historique de l’ins…
De la punition corporelle à la violence symbolique L'enseignement primaire rural en Bessarabie de l'entre-deux-guerres
L’instauration dans les années 1920 de l’école primaire en Bessarabie laisse des sources écrites et orales nombreuses qui révèlent un climat de tension et de négociation entre la population civile et les agents de la scolarisation. Le ministère régularise l’enseignement primaire des localités rurales en pénalisant des manquements, dont les peines corporelles, et encourage une pédagogie fondée sur une éthique de la discipline et un effort de compr…
Petru Negură, De la o “eliberare” la alta. Scriitorii basarabeni în primul an de putere sovetică (1940-1941)
The dual aim of this article is, on the one hand, to identify Bessarabian writers’ individual and group rationale to stay in the territory occupied by the Soviet authorities after 28 June 1940 and, on the other hand, to analyse the institutional mechanisms set up by the Soviet authorities (namely the Moldovan Writers Union (MWU) and AgitProp) to integrate these writers into the Soviet cultural system. The three groups of Bessarabian writers remai…
A vant-propos L a M oldavie au défi de crises multiples
Avant-propos La Moldavie au défi de crises multiples
No abstract available
The State Policy towards the Homeless in Moldova between the 'Left Hand' and the 'Right Hand'. The Case of Chișinău Shelter
The Centre for the Homeless in Chișinău embodies on a small scale the recent evolution of state policies towards the homeless in Moldova (a post-Soviet state). This institution applies the binary approach of the state, namely the 'left hand' and the 'right hand', towards marginalised people. On the one hand, the institution provides accommodation, food, and primary social, legal assistance and medical care. On the other hand, the Shelter personne…
Homelessness in a Post-Soviet City
Research has shown that most homeless people suffer from weak support from family, relatives and friends. Based on a descriptive statistical analysis with biographical records of 810 subjects, and a thematic analysis of interviews with homeless people (N = 65), people at risk of homelessness (N = 5) and professionals (N = 20), the article explores the social support system of homeless people from Chisinau (Moldova). Only 18.6 per cent of all user…
Compulsory Primary Education and State Building in Rural Bessarabia (1918–1940)
This article examines the way in which public primary education was established in rural Bessarabia during 1918–1940. The imposition of mass compulsory education resulted from an unequal relationship of power between the state education authorities and the village population, which at times conflicted and at other times negotiated with each other. This process was crucial for the expansion of the state in rural areas and the development of citize…
Moldova’s Thirty-Year Search for Independence
Unlike in the Baltics, support for independence in Moldova was relatively low among the political elites and the general population when the Soviet Union collapsed. In the 1990s, the political parties in power pursued an incoherent program, as governments swung between reformist and conservative agendas. Economic crises and systemic corruption depleted citizens’ trust in politicians and state institutions. This low institutional trust has hampere…
Trust in Institutions, Social Solidarity, and the Perception of Social Cohesion in the Republic of Moldova in the Early Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Research shows that social cohesion is crucial to the promotion of public health and the response to pandemic disease. This paper discusses a few key aspects of social cohesion in Moldova in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely trust in the government, social solidarity, and the perception of social cohesion. The article uses data from two sources: first from in-depth interviews carried out in May 2020 with 95 people of high status, a…
Public Education in Romania and Moldova, 19-20th Centuries
Since the second half of the 19th century, Romania has asserted itself, along with other European states, as a “modern mobilizational state”, which aimed to profoundly transform its population and the mass of its citizens through extensive mobilizing and social engineering projects. Public education has played a central role in this ambitious process of social transformation, being an essential tool of state formation and nation-building
Nation-building and mass schooling of ethnic minorities on the Romanian and Soviet peripheries (1918–1940)
The paper examines the local responses to mass schooling in the rural areas of Romanian Bessarabia and Soviet Transnistria (1918–1940). Both Romania and the USSR aimed at deeply transforming the local populations. Romania implemented schooling to assimilate ethnic minorities within the model of a nationalizing state, while the USSR adopted an inconsistent nationalizing policy, determinedly imposing compulsory education for all children. The resis…
Institutional trust and citizen supportfor the government socioeconomic policy in the early phase of the covid-19 pandemic in the Republic of Moldova
This paper analyses the citizens’ attitudes and support for the government initiatives aiming to mitigate the socioeconomic impact of the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Moldova. It draws on mixed method research carried out in the Republic of Moldova, in June and July 2020, by a questionnaire conducted with a nationally representative sample (n=1202), and a qualitative survey utilizing in-depth interviews (n=95). The respondents of the q…
What Do Moldovans Think of and How Do They Talk about the Russian Aggression against Ukraine? Prolegomena for Qualitative Inquiry
This essay explores the advantages of a qualitative approach based on a preliminary analysis of a collection of street interviews broadcast from March 2022 to March 2023 in the Republic of Moldova via 34 radio programmes. While the results of the opinion polls reflect a clear division of opinion on the war in Ukraine within Moldovan society along pre-existing geopolitical lines, the interviews highlight the possibility of consensus among responde…
Everyday Ethnicity and Popular Responses to Nation-Building Projects in Moldova After 1989
This introductory article highlights the main developments in the Republic of Moldova from the breakup of the Soviet Union to the present from the perspective of national sentiment and manifestations. Using Mark Beissinger’s concept of “tides of nationalism”, the article examines the bottom-up ethnic mobilisation between the “quiet” and the “noisy” phases of national projects in Moldova. With the persistence of the “quiet” phase of nationalism, i…
Ambivalente Einstellungen
Béatrice von Hirschhausen
Article Béatrice von Hirschhausen: Les Provinces du temps. Frontières fantômes et expériences de l’histoire was published on June 1, 2025 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 73, issue 2)
Beyond Polarisation
This article examines Moldovans’ social representations of the war in Ukraine using Moscovici's typology of hegemonic, polemical and emancipated representations and a mixed-methods approach. Based on a survey (1,112 respondents), interviews and focus groups, the study identifies a hegemonic representation centred on fear, suffering and aspirations for peace. Polemical representations reveal polarised perspectives on political responsibility, with…
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