Filip Alexandrescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 353574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Filip Alexandrescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Filip |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexandrescu |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDRESCU F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Romanian Academy |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3628-600X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Housing informality in Europe: Understanding how Roma move away from precarious housing through informal practices
Housing scholarship pays specific attention to how current housing regimes enable certain households to accumulate wealth through homeownership while relegating others to residualised rental sectors. These asset and post-welfare-oriented perspectives obscure the realities of those who are formally or informally homeowners but whose dwellings are precarious, under-serviced, and (largely) disconnected from housing asset markets. This is particularl…
Coal mining, geopolitics and cities: Urban utopias and dystopias in North Bohemia
There is a rich literature on mining towns, those urban formations that have evolved rapidly worldwide following the discovery of minerals or solid fossil fuels. Mining has been both a driver and a goal of imperial expansion and continues to feature prominently in geopolitical rivalries. In this article we go beyond the casual observation that mining shapes urbanization in specific places (known as mining towns) and show how urbanism is shaped no…
Insidious Whiteness in Eastern Europe: Environmental Injustice and Dehumanisation in a Roma Community
Even in Eastern Europe, whiteness organises space, race, class and environmental justice research. Inspired by whiteness theory, we draw on a case of environmental injustice affecting the Roma community of Dăroaia—a segregated neighbourhood in Roșia Montană—in the context of the mining conflict over the eponymous gold mine. We analyse how whiteness as ‘gadjoness’ dehumanises Roma communities through institutionalised mundane practices of spatial …
The insidious toxicity of investor-state arbitration Gabriel Resources vs Romania
Looking at the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) case ‘Gabriel Resources vs Romania’, this paper documents the intangible losses, the chronic stress, and the damaged dignity of communities having to defend their livelihoods in the long-term ongoing conflicts over mineral resources. We expand the concept of environmental injustice as an ‘insidious’ form of toxicity ‘poisoning’ bodies even before chemical contamination, where the threat of I…
Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe
(Post)socialist urban orders and the unsettlement of racialized Roma in Romania
Embedded environmental activism in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania: The case of deficient local waste management
Feminisation, governance and Roma on the urban margins
The article delves into the governance of urban marginality, focusing on the interplay of the Wacquantian distinction between the left and right hands of the state in governing urban marginality and the gender dimension of this governance. Studies of state involvement in managing urban marginality have concentrated on the content of policies and services, neglecting their modes and forms. Our research sheds light on the concrete forms of implemen…
Desert or garden? Energy sacrifice zones, territorial affordances and competing visions for post-coal landscapes: The case of the Czechoslovak Army Mine
Hotbeds of climate vulnerability: Marginalization, informality, and invisibilization of Roma slums in Romania
The role of citizen science mobile apps in facilitating a contemporary digital agora
The advancements in digital technologies, especially for mobile apps, enabled simplified data collection methods. Consequently, through Citizen Science, numerous opportunities arose for citizens to become contributors and not just beneficiaries of scientific research. Furthermore, through such engagement, citizens can participate in decision-making processes at different spatial scales, getting closer to the civic aspiration of a digital agora. T…
We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania
This article studies the urban geographies of Roma poverty by exploring variations in spatialisation. We draw on Sassen’s work on expulsions to argue that the spatialisation of poverty does not always result in a ‘ghetto’. We show instead that the ‘savage sorting’ of winners and losers and the resulting expulsions separate Roma into different levels of (housing) market worthiness. However, this sorting is also shaped by a ‘governance of Gypsy urb…
Rhythmanalysis and reproduction of space in a brownfield regeneration process: The case of Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic
The article deals with the regeneration of a former textile factory in the Czech Republic, focusing on different types of actors and their distinctive rhythmicity. At least three types of actors with a distinct relation to time can be identified in the regeneration process: NGOs, municipal authorities, and private companies. NGOs tend to think with a long-term scope, municipal authorities have a four-year election period, and private companies pl…
Penumbras of the planetary mine: Experiencing (post-)mining transformations in the Western Carpathians of Romania
This article builds on the recognition that the extraction of minerals assumed over the last few decades a transcendence of geological space-time and a corresponding expansion at planetary scale. Little attention was devoted to the long-term but currently abandoned mines awaiting their potential reopening and can be said to find themselves at a juncture. On the one hand, they confront a complex heritage of past mining operations (including pollut…
Rebuilding a community ‘centre’ under free-market pressure: The post-socialist experience with local brownfield management
In post-socialist countries, recycling urban spaces is one of the key tasks for local authorities to address. While large-scale abandoned places received the required attention, small-scale brownfields have been omitted from redevelopment strategies. Using transition theory on the effects of globalization on communities and the theory of action fields, the paper aims to increase knowledge about the ways in which local actors strive to reach the g…
From environmental to climate justice: Social-environmental expulsions and the emergence of a climate edge in Europe
This paper builds on a recent strand of critical social theory – Sassen’s [Expulsions: Brutality and complexity in the global economy. Harvard University Press; At the systemic edge. Cultural Dynamics, 27(1), 173–181] expulsions and systemic edge perspective – to argue that a sociological theory of climate change needs to start from the critical sites where change takes place. To this end, we propose the concept of climate edge as the intersectio…
On the path of evictions and invisibilization: Poor Roma facing climate vulnerability
Green gentrification as strategic action: Exploring the emerging discursive and social support for the Green Tree Strategy in Porto Marghera, Italy
Environmental protection or subversion in mining? Planning challenges, perspectives and actors at the largest gold deposit in Europe
Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison
The establishment of inter-municipal cooperation: The case of a polycentric post-socialist region
The paper deals with the process of establishing inter-municipal cooperation among towns, particularly among towns in a polycentric settlement system. Emphasis is on the specific temporal context of transition from a central administration to a decentralized form. For a more detailed analysis, the territory of the eastern part of Pardubice region, Czech Republic was chosen as the study area. Our research question therefore aims at the mechanisms …
Good governance as a strategic choice in brownfield regeneration: Regional dynamics from the Czech Republic
Brownfield regeneration in Europe: Identifying stakeholder perceptions, concerns, attitudes and information needs
The Path From Passivity Toward Entrepreneurship: Public Sector Actors in Brownfield Regeneration Processes in Central and Eastern Europe
Europeanization research dealing with the environmental transition in Eastern Europe has focused on the roles of state actors in adopting European regulations. Less well understood are the framings and roles of public administration actors when European Union regulations do not prescribe specific institutional changes. This article offers a micro perspective on the framings and roles of such actors in several cases of brownfield regeneration. Act…
Transdisciplinarity in Practice: The Emergence and Resolution of Dissonances in Collaborative Research on Brownfield Regeneration
The restoration of areas contaminated by industrial or mining activities has been a major issue in environmental research in many European countries since the 1980s, and it also constitutes a major area of research at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ. Within this research environment, a consortium consisting of natural and social scientists has developed an EU-funded research project aimed at providing problem- oriented, tail…
Brownfield regeneration in Europe: Identifying stakeholder perceptions, concerns, attitudes and information needs
Good governance as a strategic choice in brownfield regeneration: Regional dynamics from the Czech Republic
On the path of evictions and invisibilization: Poor Roma facing climate vulnerability
The establishment of inter-municipal cooperation: The case of a polycentric post-socialist region
The paper deals with the process of establishing inter-municipal cooperation among towns, particularly among towns in a polycentric settlement system. Emphasis is on the specific temporal context of transition from a central administration to a decentralized form. For a more detailed analysis, the territory of the eastern part of Pardubice region, Czech Republic was chosen as the study area. Our research question therefore aims at the mechanisms …
Transdisciplinarity in Practice: The Emergence and Resolution of Dissonances in Collaborative Research on Brownfield Regeneration
The restoration of areas contaminated by industrial or mining activities has been a major issue in environmental research in many European countries since the 1980s, and it also constitutes a major area of research at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ. Within this research environment, a consortium consisting of natural and social scientists has developed an EU-funded research project aimed at providing problem- oriented, tail…
Desert or garden? Energy sacrifice zones, territorial affordances and competing visions for post-coal landscapes: The case of the Czechoslovak Army Mine
Penumbras of the planetary mine: Experiencing (post-)mining transformations in the Western Carpathians of Romania
This article builds on the recognition that the extraction of minerals assumed over the last few decades a transcendence of geological space-time and a corresponding expansion at planetary scale. Little attention was devoted to the long-term but currently abandoned mines awaiting their potential reopening and can be said to find themselves at a juncture. On the one hand, they confront a complex heritage of past mining operations (including pollut…
Green gentrification as strategic action: Exploring the emerging discursive and social support for the Green Tree Strategy in Porto Marghera, Italy
Embedded environmental activism in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania: The case of deficient local waste management
We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania
This article studies the urban geographies of Roma poverty by exploring variations in spatialisation. We draw on Sassen’s work on expulsions to argue that the spatialisation of poverty does not always result in a ‘ghetto’. We show instead that the ‘savage sorting’ of winners and losers and the resulting expulsions separate Roma into different levels of (housing) market worthiness. However, this sorting is also shaped by a ‘governance of Gypsy urb…
From environmental to climate justice: Social-environmental expulsions and the emergence of a climate edge in Europe
This paper builds on a recent strand of critical social theory – Sassen’s [Expulsions: Brutality and complexity in the global economy. Harvard University Press; At the systemic edge. Cultural Dynamics, 27(1), 173–181] expulsions and systemic edge perspective – to argue that a sociological theory of climate change needs to start from the critical sites where change takes place. To this end, we propose the concept of climate edge as the intersectio…
Not as natural as it seems: The social history of the environment in American sociology
This article argues against Catton and Dunlap’s claims that the natural environment has been ignored or downplayed in American sociology before the emergence of environmental sociology in the 1970s. By reviewing a collection of 86 sociology textbooks between 1894 and 1980, the article provides quantitative evidence regarding the scope and types of references to the natural environment in mainstream sociology. The bulk of the article is based on a…
Mediated risks: The Roşia Montană displacement and a new perspective on the IRR model
The impoverishment risks and reconstruction (IRR) model is widely used in research on involuntary population displacements. This article endorses an expansion of the model to better account for how impoverishment risks are mediated through economic circumstances and through actors outside and within the displacement process. The case of the proposed Roşia Montană mining project in Romania reveals that some impoverishment risks originate beyond di…
The Path From Passivity Toward Entrepreneurship: Public Sector Actors in Brownfield Regeneration Processes in Central and Eastern Europe
Europeanization research dealing with the environmental transition in Eastern Europe has focused on the roles of state actors in adopting European regulations. Less well understood are the framings and roles of public administration actors when European Union regulations do not prescribe specific institutional changes. This article offers a micro perspective on the framings and roles of such actors in several cases of brownfield regeneration. Act…
Transdisciplinarity in Practice: The Emergence and Resolution of Dissonances in Collaborative Research on Brownfield Regeneration
The restoration of areas contaminated by industrial or mining activities has been a major issue in environmental research in many European countries since the 1980s, and it also constitutes a major area of research at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ. Within this research environment, a consortium consisting of natural and social scientists has developed an EU-funded research project aimed at providing problem- oriented, tail…
Brownfield regeneration in Europe: Identifying stakeholder perceptions, concerns, attitudes and information needs
Good governance as a strategic choice in brownfield regeneration: Regional dynamics from the Czech Republic
Environmental protection or subversion in mining? Planning challenges, perspectives and actors at the largest gold deposit in Europe
Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison
The establishment of inter-municipal cooperation: The case of a polycentric post-socialist region
The paper deals with the process of establishing inter-municipal cooperation among towns, particularly among towns in a polycentric settlement system. Emphasis is on the specific temporal context of transition from a central administration to a decentralized form. For a more detailed analysis, the territory of the eastern part of Pardubice region, Czech Republic was chosen as the study area. Our research question therefore aims at the mechanisms …
Rebuilding a community ‘centre’ under free-market pressure: The post-socialist experience with local brownfield management
In post-socialist countries, recycling urban spaces is one of the key tasks for local authorities to address. While large-scale abandoned places received the required attention, small-scale brownfields have been omitted from redevelopment strategies. Using transition theory on the effects of globalization on communities and the theory of action fields, the paper aims to increase knowledge about the ways in which local actors strive to reach the g…
From environmental to climate justice: Social-environmental expulsions and the emergence of a climate edge in Europe
This paper builds on a recent strand of critical social theory – Sassen’s [Expulsions: Brutality and complexity in the global economy. Harvard University Press; At the systemic edge. Cultural Dynamics, 27(1), 173–181] expulsions and systemic edge perspective – to argue that a sociological theory of climate change needs to start from the critical sites where change takes place. To this end, we propose the concept of climate edge as the intersectio…
On the path of evictions and invisibilization: Poor Roma facing climate vulnerability
Green gentrification as strategic action: Exploring the emerging discursive and social support for the Green Tree Strategy in Porto Marghera, Italy
Rhythmanalysis and reproduction of space in a brownfield regeneration process: The case of Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic
The article deals with the regeneration of a former textile factory in the Czech Republic, focusing on different types of actors and their distinctive rhythmicity. At least three types of actors with a distinct relation to time can be identified in the regeneration process: NGOs, municipal authorities, and private companies. NGOs tend to think with a long-term scope, municipal authorities have a four-year election period, and private companies pl…
Penumbras of the planetary mine: Experiencing (post-)mining transformations in the Western Carpathians of Romania
This article builds on the recognition that the extraction of minerals assumed over the last few decades a transcendence of geological space-time and a corresponding expansion at planetary scale. Little attention was devoted to the long-term but currently abandoned mines awaiting their potential reopening and can be said to find themselves at a juncture. On the one hand, they confront a complex heritage of past mining operations (including pollut…
The role of citizen science mobile apps in facilitating a contemporary digital agora
The advancements in digital technologies, especially for mobile apps, enabled simplified data collection methods. Consequently, through Citizen Science, numerous opportunities arose for citizens to become contributors and not just beneficiaries of scientific research. Furthermore, through such engagement, citizens can participate in decision-making processes at different spatial scales, getting closer to the civic aspiration of a digital agora. T…
We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania
This article studies the urban geographies of Roma poverty by exploring variations in spatialisation. We draw on Sassen’s work on expulsions to argue that the spatialisation of poverty does not always result in a ‘ghetto’. We show instead that the ‘savage sorting’ of winners and losers and the resulting expulsions separate Roma into different levels of (housing) market worthiness. However, this sorting is also shaped by a ‘governance of Gypsy urb…
Desert or garden? Energy sacrifice zones, territorial affordances and competing visions for post-coal landscapes: The case of the Czechoslovak Army Mine
Hotbeds of climate vulnerability: Marginalization, informality, and invisibilization of Roma slums in Romania
Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe
(Post)socialist urban orders and the unsettlement of racialized Roma in Romania
Embedded environmental activism in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania: The case of deficient local waste management
Feminisation, governance and Roma on the urban margins
The article delves into the governance of urban marginality, focusing on the interplay of the Wacquantian distinction between the left and right hands of the state in governing urban marginality and the gender dimension of this governance. Studies of state involvement in managing urban marginality have concentrated on the content of policies and services, neglecting their modes and forms. Our research sheds light on the concrete forms of implemen…
Housing informality in Europe: Understanding how Roma move away from precarious housing through informal practices
Housing scholarship pays specific attention to how current housing regimes enable certain households to accumulate wealth through homeownership while relegating others to residualised rental sectors. These asset and post-welfare-oriented perspectives obscure the realities of those who are formally or informally homeowners but whose dwellings are precarious, under-serviced, and (largely) disconnected from housing asset markets. This is particularl…
Coal mining, geopolitics and cities: Urban utopias and dystopias in North Bohemia
There is a rich literature on mining towns, those urban formations that have evolved rapidly worldwide following the discovery of minerals or solid fossil fuels. Mining has been both a driver and a goal of imperial expansion and continues to feature prominently in geopolitical rivalries. In this article we go beyond the casual observation that mining shapes urbanization in specific places (known as mining towns) and show how urbanism is shaped no…
Political science (18 works) · Geography (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (7 works) · Brownfield (6 works)