Ioana Florea
Biographic Data
| ID | 2034808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ioana Florea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ioana |
| FAMILY NAME | Florea |
| SIGNATURE | FLOREA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4755-779X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Kitchen‐Work of Collaborative Research: Recipes for Transformative Methodologies
Problems that collective actors struggle with require collaborative and transformative knowledge production to be solved. Despite the long tradition of participatory approaches in social science research, issues concerning collaborative methodologies are often located at the bottom of the knowledge hierarchy. We want to place them at the centre of social movement research, but also direct attention to the processes through which collaborative kno…
Institutional investors and the state: Reciprocal ‘catching-up’ in a ‘super-homeownership’ housing regime
This article analyses how institutional investors in residential real estate advanced in a context they describe as challenging. The article examines which local constellations and path dependencies directed institutional investors to and away from specific segments of the housing market. We argue that the subordinate state’s role in ensuring spatio-temporal fixes for global real estate and financial capital transformed over time under ‘catching-…
Commoning and just sustainability across time, space and class: Lessons from terminated urban gardening projects in Bucharest
Assembling social conditions of sustainability through urban gardening: Policy, Infrastructure and Social Relationships
A structural view on housing movements: Strategic lessons from a field of contention approach
In this article, we share strategic lessons from applying a ‘structural field of contention’ approach to a comparative study of housing struggles in Hungary and Romania since 1989. The aim is not to highlight details and specificities, but to show the benefits of looking beyond individual progressive movements in focus of most previous literature, instead capturing the ideological and structural complexity of housing contention, with different po…
Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: Navigating Pathways for Tackling Inequality and Reinventing the Commons
In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. We define radical grassroots social innovations as a set of practices initiated by formal or informal co…
Housing struggles in Romania and in Central Eastern Europe (CEE)
In this conversation two of our Editors (Erin and Michele) are encountering a number of comrades with whom we shared direct action and theorizing in Romania and beyond. They are Enikő Vincze and George Zamfir (from Cluj) and Ioana Florea and Veda Popovici (from Bucharest). In the paper we collectively reflect around the struggle for housing in Romania and in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), on the Western economic and State power on the East, on gra…
A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and Budapest
The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality…
Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: Navigating Pathways for Tackling Inequality and Reinventing the Commons
In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. We define radical grassroots social innovations as a set of practices initiated by formal or informal co…
A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and Budapest
The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality…
Commoning and just sustainability across time, space and class: Lessons from terminated urban gardening projects in Bucharest
A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and Budapest
The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality…
Housing struggles in Romania and in Central Eastern Europe (CEE)
In this conversation two of our Editors (Erin and Michele) are encountering a number of comrades with whom we shared direct action and theorizing in Romania and beyond. They are Enikő Vincze and George Zamfir (from Cluj) and Ioana Florea and Veda Popovici (from Bucharest). In the paper we collectively reflect around the struggle for housing in Romania and in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), on the Western economic and State power on the East, on gra…
Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: Navigating Pathways for Tackling Inequality and Reinventing the Commons
In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. We define radical grassroots social innovations as a set of practices initiated by formal or informal co…
A structural view on housing movements: Strategic lessons from a field of contention approach
In this article, we share strategic lessons from applying a ‘structural field of contention’ approach to a comparative study of housing struggles in Hungary and Romania since 1989. The aim is not to highlight details and specificities, but to show the benefits of looking beyond individual progressive movements in focus of most previous literature, instead capturing the ideological and structural complexity of housing contention, with different po…
Institutional investors and the state: Reciprocal ‘catching-up’ in a ‘super-homeownership’ housing regime
This article analyses how institutional investors in residential real estate advanced in a context they describe as challenging. The article examines which local constellations and path dependencies directed institutional investors to and away from specific segments of the housing market. We argue that the subordinate state’s role in ensuring spatio-temporal fixes for global real estate and financial capital transformed over time under ‘catching-…
Commoning and just sustainability across time, space and class: Lessons from terminated urban gardening projects in Bucharest
Assembling social conditions of sustainability through urban gardening: Policy, Infrastructure and Social Relationships
The Kitchen‐Work of Collaborative Research: Recipes for Transformative Methodologies
Problems that collective actors struggle with require collaborative and transformative knowledge production to be solved. Despite the long tradition of participatory approaches in social science research, issues concerning collaborative methodologies are often located at the bottom of the knowledge hierarchy. We want to place them at the centre of social movement research, but also direct attention to the processes through which collaborative kno…
Political science (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Financialization (2 works)