Andrei Sorescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4193802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrei Sorescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrei |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorescu |
| SIGNATURE | SORESCU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2865-3754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hierarchies of Desirable Demise: Cholera and (In)Glorious Death in Romania’s Bloodless Balkan War, 1913
What happens when war fails to offer the opportunity for a glorious death? And what if the enemy you set out to fight fails to show up, only for you to do battle with another, more insidious foe—disease? What then of the gendered roles of martial masculinity; can heroism ever be reconciled with the perceived indignity of a sickbed? The present article aims to elucidate such questions of general significance by focusing on a specific case-study, i…
Introduction: Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals, and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania
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. This thematic cluster examines the historical relevance of the rail and fluvial-maritime transportation infrastructure for nation-building and modernization of the Romanian Principalities (later Romania) from the 1840s to 1914. Since suc…
The Perils (and Promise) of German Colonization: Civilizational Hierarchies and Anxieties in Nineteenth-Century Romania
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. What does the constant recurrence of “colony” and “colonization” as key concepts in nineteenth-century Romanian public discourse reveal about the nexus between capital, development, civilization, nation, and state? The present article ar…
The Same Causes Occasioning the Same Effects”: The “Jewish Question”, the “Chinese Question” and the Global Precedents of Exclusion in Late Nineteenth Century Central Europe
Why was the “Chinese Question” of immigration control and exclusion in the United States imagined as an appealing precedent for dealing with the “Jewish Question” of emancipation and citizenship in fin-de-siècle Romania, Hungary, and Austria? The present article examines a vast corpus of parliamentary debates, press, and pamphlets, in order to demonstrate how thinking in terms of “questions” enabled historical actors to place themselves within a …
The 'Is' at Home, the 'Ought' Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania
What happens when nation-builders in an independent state imagine themselves to have fallen behind kinfolk living under imperial oppression, and how does this affect their vision of a future of national unity? This paper explores the shapes that critical self-comparison could take among Romanians in the Kingdom of Romania around the turn of the twentieth century by considering three interconnected vignettes. First, it outlines the context in whic…
Inventing a Prosthetic Bourgeoisie: Romania and the Aromanians, 1848–1906
The present article focuses on the period between 1848 and 1906—between the politicized “discovery” of Balkan Aromanians as a kinfolk by Romanian nation-state builders and the aftermath of the community’s recognition by the Ottoman government. Examining how Romania imagined its own entanglement in the Macedonian Question, the article aims to raise the broader question of how a nation-state imagined the agency of kinfolk beyond its borders and, as…
National History as a History of Compacts: Jus Publicum Europaeum and Suzerainty in Romania in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
This article aims to show that concepts originating in the vocabulary of international relations were crucial to the rhetoric of nation-building in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. A close examination of the Romanian context elucidates in a more general way historical actors’ reflections and critiques of this conceptual vocabulary as well as the permeable nature of the (inter)national in the given historical context. The article explores two concep…
National History as a History of Compacts: Jus Publicum Europaeum and Suzerainty in Romania in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
This article aims to show that concepts originating in the vocabulary of international relations were crucial to the rhetoric of nation-building in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. A close examination of the Romanian context elucidates in a more general way historical actors’ reflections and critiques of this conceptual vocabulary as well as the permeable nature of the (inter)national in the given historical context. The article explores two concep…
National History as a History of Compacts: Jus Publicum Europaeum and Suzerainty in Romania in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
This article aims to show that concepts originating in the vocabulary of international relations were crucial to the rhetoric of nation-building in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. A close examination of the Romanian context elucidates in a more general way historical actors’ reflections and critiques of this conceptual vocabulary as well as the permeable nature of the (inter)national in the given historical context. The article explores two concep…
Inventing a Prosthetic Bourgeoisie: Romania and the Aromanians, 1848–1906
The present article focuses on the period between 1848 and 1906—between the politicized “discovery” of Balkan Aromanians as a kinfolk by Romanian nation-state builders and the aftermath of the community’s recognition by the Ottoman government. Examining how Romania imagined its own entanglement in the Macedonian Question, the article aims to raise the broader question of how a nation-state imagined the agency of kinfolk beyond its borders and, as…
The Same Causes Occasioning the Same Effects”: The “Jewish Question”, the “Chinese Question” and the Global Precedents of Exclusion in Late Nineteenth Century Central Europe
Why was the “Chinese Question” of immigration control and exclusion in the United States imagined as an appealing precedent for dealing with the “Jewish Question” of emancipation and citizenship in fin-de-siècle Romania, Hungary, and Austria? The present article examines a vast corpus of parliamentary debates, press, and pamphlets, in order to demonstrate how thinking in terms of “questions” enabled historical actors to place themselves within a …
The 'Is' at Home, the 'Ought' Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania
What happens when nation-builders in an independent state imagine themselves to have fallen behind kinfolk living under imperial oppression, and how does this affect their vision of a future of national unity? This paper explores the shapes that critical self-comparison could take among Romanians in the Kingdom of Romania around the turn of the twentieth century by considering three interconnected vignettes. First, it outlines the context in whic…
Introduction: Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals, and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania
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. This thematic cluster examines the historical relevance of the rail and fluvial-maritime transportation infrastructure for nation-building and modernization of the Romanian Principalities (later Romania) from the 1840s to 1914. Since suc…
The Perils (and Promise) of German Colonization: Civilizational Hierarchies and Anxieties in Nineteenth-Century Romania
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. What does the constant recurrence of “colony” and “colonization” as key concepts in nineteenth-century Romanian public discourse reveal about the nexus between capital, development, civilization, nation, and state? The present article ar…
Hierarchies of Desirable Demise: Cholera and (In)Glorious Death in Romania’s Bloodless Balkan War, 1913
What happens when war fails to offer the opportunity for a glorious death? And what if the enemy you set out to fight fails to show up, only for you to do battle with another, more insidious foe—disease? What then of the gendered roles of martial masculinity; can heroism ever be reconciled with the perceived indignity of a sickbed? The present article aims to elucidate such questions of general significance by focusing on a specific case-study, i…
History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (2 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works)