Calin Cotoi
Biographic Data
| ID | 229138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Calin Cotoi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Calin |
| FAMILY NAME | Cotoi |
| SIGNATURE | COTOI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bucharest |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4309-7995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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…
Hybrid health regimes: Access to primary care physicians and Covid-19 vaccine uptake across municipalities in Romania
We Should Have Asked What Year We Were In! Wastelands and Wilderness in the Văcărești Park
In Central and Eastern Europe, nature protected areas came into being in a dramatically changing society, economy, and culture. Formerly industrial and infrastructural landscapes have been both materially and semantically reshaped through practices of restoration and attempts to revitalise ruins of failed modernisation projects. Around a socialist‐era empty lake, landowners, real estate developers, casino capitalism, displaced people, hopes, fant…
Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848-1914: Networks and Laboratories of Knowledge
Blick ins Buch In Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848–1914, Călin Cotoi brings to life several 'obscure' anarchists, physicians, public hygienists and reformers roaming the borderlands of Europe and Russia. The book follows individuals, texts, projects, sometimes even bacteria, traveling, meeting, colliding, writing and talking to each other in surprising places, and on changing topics. All of them navigated the land, sometimes finding unexpect…
The geopolitical turn in interwar Romanian sociology and geography: From social reform to population exchange plans
Romanian interwar geopolitics emerged mostly through a radicalization and instrumentalization of sociology, seen as a militant science serving the nation-state. Geography re-defined itself as both geohistory and geopolitics and tried to articulate German Geopolitik and French géographie politique in order to create a science of national and global spaces compatible with this new sociology. Geopolitics became, at the end of the 1930s and during WW…
The Making of a National Park: Ruins of Nature and History in Northern Dobrudja
After 1990, nature conservation areas multiplied all over Central and Eastern Europe. National parks came into being as part of a dramatically changing society, economy, and culture. Scholarly efforts to understand national parks rely either on arguments about the social construction of nature or on political ecology. In this article, I attempt to point to the analytical potential of the literature on ruins for expanding studies carried out in bo…
Cholera, Health for All, Nation-Building, and Racial Degeneration in Nineteenth-Century Romania
The emergence of social modernity in the Romanian principalities can be traced to the founding of quarantinist outposts against the last waves of plague and the first waves of cholera. The crisis of this sanitary arrangement opened the way for a series of failed but productive projects of modernization. The collective political body was imagined and created through the nationalization of the medical profession and the attempts to create a sanitar…
The Politics of Ethnography: Figures of Csangoness infin-de-siècleand Twentieth-Century Hungary and Romania
The Csangos are an ethnic/religious minority from Moldavia, Eastern Romania. They are defined as legitimate subjects by two antagonistically nationalizing projects: the Hungarian and the Romanian one. I am not trying to discover some "authentic" or "hybrid" identity that would explain away the ambiguities connected with this ethno-religious group. The Csangos appear, in this paper, as mutating historical forms and figures, made up through fateful…
Neoliberalism: A Foucauldian Perspective
The contemporary investigations on power, politics, government and knowledge are profoundly influenced by Foucault’s work. Governmentality, as a specific way of seeing the connections between the formation of subjectivities and population politics, has been used extensively in anthropology as neoliberal governmentalities have been spreading after the 1990s all over the world. A return to Foucault can help to clarify some overtly ideological uses …
We Should Have Asked What Year We Were In! Wastelands and Wilderness in the Văcărești Park
In Central and Eastern Europe, nature protected areas came into being in a dramatically changing society, economy, and culture. Formerly industrial and infrastructural landscapes have been both materially and semantically reshaped through practices of restoration and attempts to revitalise ruins of failed modernisation projects. Around a socialist‐era empty lake, landowners, real estate developers, casino capitalism, displaced people, hopes, fant…
The Politics of Ethnography: Figures of Csangoness infin-de-siècleand Twentieth-Century Hungary and Romania
The Csangos are an ethnic/religious minority from Moldavia, Eastern Romania. They are defined as legitimate subjects by two antagonistically nationalizing projects: the Hungarian and the Romanian one. I am not trying to discover some "authentic" or "hybrid" identity that would explain away the ambiguities connected with this ethno-religious group. The Csangos appear, in this paper, as mutating historical forms and figures, made up through fateful…
Hybrid health regimes: Access to primary care physicians and Covid-19 vaccine uptake across municipalities in Romania
Cholera, Health for All, Nation-Building, and Racial Degeneration in Nineteenth-Century Romania
The emergence of social modernity in the Romanian principalities can be traced to the founding of quarantinist outposts against the last waves of plague and the first waves of cholera. The crisis of this sanitary arrangement opened the way for a series of failed but productive projects of modernization. The collective political body was imagined and created through the nationalization of the medical profession and the attempts to create a sanitar…
Neoliberalism: A Foucauldian Perspective
The contemporary investigations on power, politics, government and knowledge are profoundly influenced by Foucault’s work. Governmentality, as a specific way of seeing the connections between the formation of subjectivities and population politics, has been used extensively in anthropology as neoliberal governmentalities have been spreading after the 1990s all over the world. A return to Foucault can help to clarify some overtly ideological uses …
The Politics of Ethnography: Figures of Csangoness infin-de-siècleand Twentieth-Century Hungary and Romania
The Csangos are an ethnic/religious minority from Moldavia, Eastern Romania. They are defined as legitimate subjects by two antagonistically nationalizing projects: the Hungarian and the Romanian one. I am not trying to discover some "authentic" or "hybrid" identity that would explain away the ambiguities connected with this ethno-religious group. The Csangos appear, in this paper, as mutating historical forms and figures, made up through fateful…
Cholera, Health for All, Nation-Building, and Racial Degeneration in Nineteenth-Century Romania
The emergence of social modernity in the Romanian principalities can be traced to the founding of quarantinist outposts against the last waves of plague and the first waves of cholera. The crisis of this sanitary arrangement opened the way for a series of failed but productive projects of modernization. The collective political body was imagined and created through the nationalization of the medical profession and the attempts to create a sanitar…
The Making of a National Park: Ruins of Nature and History in Northern Dobrudja
After 1990, nature conservation areas multiplied all over Central and Eastern Europe. National parks came into being as part of a dramatically changing society, economy, and culture. Scholarly efforts to understand national parks rely either on arguments about the social construction of nature or on political ecology. In this article, I attempt to point to the analytical potential of the literature on ruins for expanding studies carried out in bo…
The geopolitical turn in interwar Romanian sociology and geography: From social reform to population exchange plans
Romanian interwar geopolitics emerged mostly through a radicalization and instrumentalization of sociology, seen as a militant science serving the nation-state. Geography re-defined itself as both geohistory and geopolitics and tried to articulate German Geopolitik and French géographie politique in order to create a science of national and global spaces compatible with this new sociology. Geopolitics became, at the end of the 1930s and during WW…
Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848-1914: Networks and Laboratories of Knowledge
Blick ins Buch In Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848–1914, Călin Cotoi brings to life several 'obscure' anarchists, physicians, public hygienists and reformers roaming the borderlands of Europe and Russia. The book follows individuals, texts, projects, sometimes even bacteria, traveling, meeting, colliding, writing and talking to each other in surprising places, and on changing topics. All of them navigated the land, sometimes finding unexpect…
We Should Have Asked What Year We Were In! Wastelands and Wilderness in the Văcărești Park
In Central and Eastern Europe, nature protected areas came into being in a dramatically changing society, economy, and culture. Formerly industrial and infrastructural landscapes have been both materially and semantically reshaped through practices of restoration and attempts to revitalise ruins of failed modernisation projects. Around a socialist‐era empty lake, landowners, real estate developers, casino capitalism, displaced people, hopes, fant…
Hybrid health regimes: Access to primary care physicians and Covid-19 vaccine uptake across municipalities in Romania
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…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Modernization theory (3 works) · Romanian (3 works)