Alexandru Iorga
Biographic Data
| ID | 1676857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandru Iorga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandru |
| FAMILY NAME | Iorga |
| SIGNATURE | IORGA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bucharest |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5340-6272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Common Reed and Giant Cane: Transnational Plant Lives and Hydro-Modernities in the Socialist Danube Delta
This article explores the historical emergence of the Danube Delta as part of the larger story of hydro-modernity—that is, the creation of political and scientific representations of dynamic landscapes comprised of waters, silt, plants, animals, and humans. The transformation of the Danube Delta started with the first staging of the landscape as an undeveloped “green sea” in the mid-nineteenth century and then evolved in the twentieth century int…
The lives and afterlives of the Dâmbovița: Between ghost and living river
A postsocialist, neoliberal space of reform and innovation, of projects and plans for change, the Dâmbovița River is also a space of unbridgeable material and discursive-rhetorical fractures. The river emerges as the socialist anti-natural background for the new prospects of a capitalist re-naturalized entity: its 'deadness' necessary for the projected 'liveliness' of the future river. To understand the river as multiple we look at how it creates…
What Makes an Ethnographer? Institutionalized Teaching and Informal Learning of Anthropology in Romania
The processes of disciplinary institutionalization emerged from practices of preserving written and oral documents, establishing local and national museums, and developing university courses. In the last 100 years, archives’ development assured the professionalization of scholars interested in disciplines unrepresented at the university level, such as ethnography and anthropology. After the 1990s, as the South-Eastern European countries could not…
Making the Documents Speak—A Creative Exploration of the Mihai Pop Fonds
In 2016, the Mihai Pop Fonds was established as part of the Image Archive at the Romanian Peasant Museum, and this past year has seen a real effort to organize the documents left behind by the scholar. The Fonds brings together key documents: a rich correspondence with Romanian and foreign research¬ers; Mihai Pop’s field notes from the sociological research campaigns; his PhD thesis, which has yet to be published; documents related to his partici…
Archives as Ruins: Means of Understanding the Future in an Era of Wrecks
Archives are not all the time talking about themselves—as if a self might be forced on them until their disappearance. Why are we so much into archives, museums, collections, and accumulation? What is the purpose of individual and public archives? How are they imagined, built and used? What are the ends of archives and museums in an era of breaking off with the past? The paper aims to discuss some possible answers to these questions. It scrutiniz…
Hay Days in the “Black Forest” – Field Notes and Photographs from Caraorman, the Danube Delta
In this essay I will provide an account of haymaking and animal husbandry practices in a post-socialist village from the Romanian Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. The paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the summer and autumn of 2011 in the village of Caraorman. Photographs presented in this paper were taken by the author in the same year, using different cameras. They are situated representational fragments of a quotidian that I …
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Hay Days in the “Black Forest” – Field Notes and Photographs from Caraorman, the Danube Delta
In this essay I will provide an account of haymaking and animal husbandry practices in a post-socialist village from the Romanian Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. The paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the summer and autumn of 2011 in the village of Caraorman. Photographs presented in this paper were taken by the author in the same year, using different cameras. They are situated representational fragments of a quotidian that I …
Making the Documents Speak—A Creative Exploration of the Mihai Pop Fonds
In 2016, the Mihai Pop Fonds was established as part of the Image Archive at the Romanian Peasant Museum, and this past year has seen a real effort to organize the documents left behind by the scholar. The Fonds brings together key documents: a rich correspondence with Romanian and foreign research¬ers; Mihai Pop’s field notes from the sociological research campaigns; his PhD thesis, which has yet to be published; documents related to his partici…
Archives as Ruins: Means of Understanding the Future in an Era of Wrecks
Archives are not all the time talking about themselves—as if a self might be forced on them until their disappearance. Why are we so much into archives, museums, collections, and accumulation? What is the purpose of individual and public archives? How are they imagined, built and used? What are the ends of archives and museums in an era of breaking off with the past? The paper aims to discuss some possible answers to these questions. It scrutiniz…
What Makes an Ethnographer? Institutionalized Teaching and Informal Learning of Anthropology in Romania
The processes of disciplinary institutionalization emerged from practices of preserving written and oral documents, establishing local and national museums, and developing university courses. In the last 100 years, archives’ development assured the professionalization of scholars interested in disciplines unrepresented at the university level, such as ethnography and anthropology. After the 1990s, as the South-Eastern European countries could not…
The lives and afterlives of the Dâmbovița: Between ghost and living river
A postsocialist, neoliberal space of reform and innovation, of projects and plans for change, the Dâmbovița River is also a space of unbridgeable material and discursive-rhetorical fractures. The river emerges as the socialist anti-natural background for the new prospects of a capitalist re-naturalized entity: its 'deadness' necessary for the projected 'liveliness' of the future river. To understand the river as multiple we look at how it creates…
Common Reed and Giant Cane: Transnational Plant Lives and Hydro-Modernities in the Socialist Danube Delta
This article explores the historical emergence of the Danube Delta as part of the larger story of hydro-modernity—that is, the creation of political and scientific representations of dynamic landscapes comprised of waters, silt, plants, animals, and humans. The transformation of the Danube Delta started with the first staging of the landscape as an undeveloped “green sea” in the mid-nineteenth century and then evolved in the twentieth century int…
Archaeology (5 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (2 works) · Delta (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Political science (2 works)