Raul Cârstocea
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raul Cârstocea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cârstocea |
| SIGNATURE | CÂRSTOCEA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7400-1159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anti-Semitism at the Intersection of Corruption and Colonialism
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania”, guest-edited by Silvia Marton and Andrei Sorescu. The topoi of “corruption” and “colonialism” that emerged in nineteenth-century Romania in connection to infrastructure projects and the anxieties related to the prominence of foreign capital therein converged into an anti-Semitism that a…
Minorities at War, Part 1
This short introduction provides an overview for the first part of the special issue of ‘Minorities at War’. The issue’s overarching theme explores how periods of conflict influenced the relationship between minority groups in Central and Eastern Europe and their respective host states during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The articles featured are based on contributions originally presented at the BASEES Study Group for Minor…
Minorities at War, Part 2
This introduction provides an overview of the second part of thespecial issue titled “Minorities at War. Minority Agency in Timesof Conflict.” The articles in this issue underscore the role ofminority agency during times of conflict at the local, national, andregional levels. It examines how minorities self-organize inresponse to crises, the role of civic organizations and diasporas inproviding aid during wartime, and the impact of war on the cre…
War against the Poor
This article positions the social violence against Roma in Eastern Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic in historical perspective. It is based on primary data derived from the project Marginality on the Margins of Europe – The Impact of COVID-19 on Roma Communities in Non-EU Countries in Eastern Europe, collected in 2020 by researchers in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine. This data is conte…
Migrating Memories
James Koranyi’s Migrating Memories is a rich and interesting account of the German minority in Romania over a ‘long’ twentieth century stretching into the present. As is often the case with histories of minority groups, the book reveals the complex texture of society below the national level, in its portrayal of a group that is itself diverse, consisting of different communities with distinctive histories of migration to Romania, confessional dif…
Synchronous nationalisms – reading the history of nationalism in South–Eastern Europe between and beyond the binaries
This article argues that historicising the evolution of nineteenth century nationalisms in South-Eastern Europe allows us to undermine not only binary understandings of nationalism, but also the essentialist reification of a single ideal type as a dominant or exclusive manifestation of nationalism. It draws attention to the competing nationalisms that can be encountered in the area during this period, varying across the spatial and temporal axes,…
Historicising the Normative Boundaries of Diversity
The article accounts for the specific form a certain legal and, indeed, normative understanding of diversity informed the so-called Minority Treaties of 1919 by historicising the evolution of certain interlocking discourses over the remit of ‘rights’, as well as the identity of their holders. It seeks to account for why certain groups (national minorities) rather than others were singled out for protection and why the rights they were given took …
Between Europeanisation and Local Legacies
This article addresses the persistence of anti-Semitism in Romania, placed in the context of some recent debates concerning the memory of the Holocaust in the country, as well as in the area of Central and Eastern Europe more broadly. It argues that, despite significant improvements in terms of legislation, the memory of the Holocaust remains a highly contested issue in contemporary Romania, torn between the attempts to join in the European memor…
Globalizing Race
Reviewed by: Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and empire in French and European culture by Dorian Bell Raul Cârstocea Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and empire in French and European culture By Dorian Bell. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2018. Dorian Bell’s Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and empire in French and European culture has all the ingredients of an important book: an intricate yet fresh conceptual framework—drawing both on…
Building a Fascist Romania
This paper addresses the importance of work camps as mobilisation strategies employed by the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’, Romania’s interwar fascist movement. It argues that the success of the legionary constructive work projects, practically taking the form of voluntary work camps and smaller ‘construction sites’ ( şantiere ) – the latter developed according to similar principles, yet more limited in size – contributed significantly to the…
Breaking the Teeth of Time
Breaking the Teeth of Time: Mythical Time and the «Terror of History» in the Rhetoric of the Legionary Movement in Interwar Romania This article analyses the alternative temporality visible in the rhetoric of the «Legion of the Archangel Michael», Romania's interwar fascist movement. It argues that, in line with its palingenetic ideology, the legionary movement adopted a temporal vision in which a timeless Romanian nation spanning both an immemor…
Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania
Journal Article Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania Get access Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania, by Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2007; pp. xvi + 270. £32.99). Raul Carstocea Raul Carstocea School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 511, Decembe…
Breaking the Teeth of Time
Breaking the Teeth of Time: Mythical Time and the «Terror of History» in the Rhetoric of the Legionary Movement in Interwar Romania This article analyses the alternative temporality visible in the rhetoric of the «Legion of the Archangel Michael», Romania's interwar fascist movement. It argues that, in line with its palingenetic ideology, the legionary movement adopted a temporal vision in which a timeless Romanian nation spanning both an immemor…
Synchronous nationalisms – reading the history of nationalism in South–Eastern Europe between and beyond the binaries
This article argues that historicising the evolution of nineteenth century nationalisms in South-Eastern Europe allows us to undermine not only binary understandings of nationalism, but also the essentialist reification of a single ideal type as a dominant or exclusive manifestation of nationalism. It draws attention to the competing nationalisms that can be encountered in the area during this period, varying across the spatial and temporal axes,…
Between Europeanisation and Local Legacies
This article addresses the persistence of anti-Semitism in Romania, placed in the context of some recent debates concerning the memory of the Holocaust in the country, as well as in the area of Central and Eastern Europe more broadly. It argues that, despite significant improvements in terms of legislation, the memory of the Holocaust remains a highly contested issue in contemporary Romania, torn between the attempts to join in the European memor…
Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania
Journal Article Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania Get access Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania, by Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2007; pp. xvi + 270. £32.99). Raul Carstocea Raul Carstocea School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 511, Decembe…
Breaking the Teeth of Time
Breaking the Teeth of Time: Mythical Time and the «Terror of History» in the Rhetoric of the Legionary Movement in Interwar Romania This article analyses the alternative temporality visible in the rhetoric of the «Legion of the Archangel Michael», Romania's interwar fascist movement. It argues that, in line with its palingenetic ideology, the legionary movement adopted a temporal vision in which a timeless Romanian nation spanning both an immemor…
Building a Fascist Romania
This paper addresses the importance of work camps as mobilisation strategies employed by the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’, Romania’s interwar fascist movement. It argues that the success of the legionary constructive work projects, practically taking the form of voluntary work camps and smaller ‘construction sites’ ( şantiere ) – the latter developed according to similar principles, yet more limited in size – contributed significantly to the…
Historicising the Normative Boundaries of Diversity
The article accounts for the specific form a certain legal and, indeed, normative understanding of diversity informed the so-called Minority Treaties of 1919 by historicising the evolution of certain interlocking discourses over the remit of ‘rights’, as well as the identity of their holders. It seeks to account for why certain groups (national minorities) rather than others were singled out for protection and why the rights they were given took …
Between Europeanisation and Local Legacies
This article addresses the persistence of anti-Semitism in Romania, placed in the context of some recent debates concerning the memory of the Holocaust in the country, as well as in the area of Central and Eastern Europe more broadly. It argues that, despite significant improvements in terms of legislation, the memory of the Holocaust remains a highly contested issue in contemporary Romania, torn between the attempts to join in the European memor…
Globalizing Race
Reviewed by: Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and empire in French and European culture by Dorian Bell Raul Cârstocea Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and empire in French and European culture By Dorian Bell. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2018. Dorian Bell’s Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and empire in French and European culture has all the ingredients of an important book: an intricate yet fresh conceptual framework—drawing both on…
Synchronous nationalisms – reading the history of nationalism in South–Eastern Europe between and beyond the binaries
This article argues that historicising the evolution of nineteenth century nationalisms in South-Eastern Europe allows us to undermine not only binary understandings of nationalism, but also the essentialist reification of a single ideal type as a dominant or exclusive manifestation of nationalism. It draws attention to the competing nationalisms that can be encountered in the area during this period, varying across the spatial and temporal axes,…
War against the Poor
This article positions the social violence against Roma in Eastern Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic in historical perspective. It is based on primary data derived from the project Marginality on the Margins of Europe – The Impact of COVID-19 on Roma Communities in Non-EU Countries in Eastern Europe, collected in 2020 by researchers in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine. This data is conte…
Migrating Memories
James Koranyi’s Migrating Memories is a rich and interesting account of the German minority in Romania over a ‘long’ twentieth century stretching into the present. As is often the case with histories of minority groups, the book reveals the complex texture of society below the national level, in its portrayal of a group that is itself diverse, consisting of different communities with distinctive histories of migration to Romania, confessional dif…
Minorities at War, Part 1
This short introduction provides an overview for the first part of the special issue of ‘Minorities at War’. The issue’s overarching theme explores how periods of conflict influenced the relationship between minority groups in Central and Eastern Europe and their respective host states during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The articles featured are based on contributions originally presented at the BASEES Study Group for Minor…
Minorities at War, Part 2
This introduction provides an overview of the second part of thespecial issue titled “Minorities at War. Minority Agency in Timesof Conflict.” The articles in this issue underscore the role ofminority agency during times of conflict at the local, national, andregional levels. It examines how minorities self-organize inresponse to crises, the role of civic organizations and diasporas inproviding aid during wartime, and the impact of war on the cre…
Anti-Semitism at the Intersection of Corruption and Colonialism
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania”, guest-edited by Silvia Marton and Andrei Sorescu. The topoi of “corruption” and “colonialism” that emerged in nineteenth-century Romania in connection to infrastructure projects and the anxieties related to the prominence of foreign capital therein converged into an anti-Semitism that a…
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