Sabina Stan
Biographic Data
| ID | 649740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabina Stan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabina |
| FAMILY NAME | Stan |
| SIGNATURE | STAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1602-0519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Politicising Commodification: A Response to Ban, Béthoux, Rhodes, and Martínez Lucio
Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency
This book examines the new economic governance (NEG) regime that the EU adopted after 2008. Its novel research design captures the supranational formulation of NEG prescriptions and their uneven deployment across countries (Germany, Italy, Ireland, Romania), policy areas (employment relations, public services), and sectors (transport, water, healthcare). NEG led to a much more vertical mode of EU integration, and its commodification agenda unleas…
Impact of Newton Technology-Enhanced Learning Solutions on Knowledge Acquisition in Pilots Involving Students With Hearing Impairments
Contributions: This article presents the results of a study carried out as part of two large-scale pilots and analyzes the impact of the use of modern technologies in education in term of knowledge acquisition in case of students with hearing disabilities. Background: Teaching topics from STEM area is a challenging task for all teachers who have students with hearing disabilities in their class. On the one hand, because of the high degree of diff…
Pursuing an overarching commodification script through country-specific interventions? The EU's New Economic Governance prescriptions in healthcare (2009-2019)
After the 2008 financial crisis, the European Union (EU) introduced a New Economic Governance (NEG) regime, which enabled much more coercive interventions of EU executives in social policy areas hitherto shielded from them. This study assesses the policy orientation of their NEG prescriptions in healthcare for Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Romania from 2009 to 2019 and the potential for countervailing actions of labour movements. Acknowledging org…
Time for a paradigm change? Incorporating transnational processes into the analysis of the emerging European health-care system
Health services have long been insulated from the process of European integration. In this article, however, we show that we are witnessing their re-configuration in an emerging EU health-care system. The article uncovers the structuring lines of this system by focusing on three interrelated EU-wide processes influencing the integration of national health-care systems into a larger whole. First, the privatisation of health-care services following…
Bringing society back into our understanding of European cross-border care
We are pleased to discuss our study on the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) and the redistributive effects of EHIC-related east–west patient and payment flows across regions and social classes. Our critics confirm our key finding: EHIC patient outflows from Eastern European (EE) to Western European (WE) countries result in a much higher relative burden for the budgets of EE states than outflows from WE to EE do for WE countries. Starting fro…
Bringing EU citizens together or pulling them apart? The European Health Insurance Card, east–west mobility and the failed promise of European social integration
Although the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) was meant to bring Europeans together, this study shows that it is amplifying social inequalities across regions and classes. First, we evaluate the effects of east–west EHIC mobility, and of Eastern Europeans’ participation in it, on the practice of EU social citizenship rights to access cross-border care along spatial (east–west) and social class divides. We then assess the impact of these mobi…
Accumulation by Dispossession and Public-Private Biomedical Pluralism in Romanian Health Care
Neoliberal reforms in health care are an accumulation by dispossession. In examining this in Romania, we show that neoliberal reforms led to an uneven landscape of public and private care. We document how patients variously situated in Romanian society respond to this situation, and demonstrate the instability of their strategies-restraining from formal care, lifting-off from public care and hooking-up to private care. Public-private biomedical p…
Neoliberal Citizenship and the Politics of Corruption: Redefining Informal Exchange in Romanian Healthcare
Looking for a place to stand: Theory, field and holism in contemporary anthropology
This chapter discusses some of the claims to disciplinary relevance that have become dominant in anthropology in the last decades, most particularly those which are rooted in postmodernism and poststructuralism. It considers explicit theoretical orientations and dominance in current anthropology, and thus their translation into implicit dispositions informing anthropological writing and arguments. The chapter looks at some of the implications tha…
Introduction: Politicizing the transnational
Labor movements have always found it difficult to reveal and transform the social relations that constitute markets. The growing transnational movements of goods, capital, and services in themselves have therefore not triggered closer trade union cooperation across borders. Transnational collective action also requires conscious choices and a mutual understanding that solidarity across borders is warranted. For this reason, this special issue of …
Explaining Romanian labor migration: From development gaps to development trajectories
While migration scholars often neglect the national and transnational relations of production and exchange within which labor migration occurs, international political economists tend to treat labor migration as a mere side effect of transnational capitalism. By contrast, this article considers the constitutive role that post-socialist transformations and the EU integration played in shaping the various patterns of intra-European east–west labor …
Transnational healthcare practices of Romanian migrants in Ireland: Inequalities of access and the privatisation of healthcare services in Europe
Neither commodities nor gifts: Post-socialist informal exchanges in the Romanian healthcare system
This article approaches informal relations in post-socialist settings from a political economy perspective. Taking as a case study informal exchanges in the Romanian healthcare system, the article addresses the question of their continuity in the face of both divergent claims and increased monetarization of exchanges. It contends that informal exchanges are individual responses to the increased inequalities that followed the post-socialist redesi…
High-tech Romania? Commoditisation and Informal Relations in the Managerialist Informatisation of the Romanian Health-Care System
While informatisation has officially been hailed as a major component of the modernisation of the Romanian health-care system, this paper, based on ethnographic research in Romanian hospitals, shows that it has been mostly geared towards managerialist goals of administrative control and cost containment. Paradoxically, informal relations, which were supposed to be suppressed as a result of both informatisation and managerialist marketisation, con…
Faire marcher » le marché: L’anthropologie à l’épreuve de l’économie postsocialiste
À travers une analyse de l'utilisation de la notion de « marché », l'article se propose de documenter la manière dont les anthropologues ont construit les notions de socialisme et de postsocialisme. Il montre que les études analysées ont recours à une vision du marché qui reste largement essentialiste, anhistorique, et insensible aux rapports de pouvoir qui participent à la construction sociale de cette forme d'échange. L'article avance que c'est…
De la nostalgie à l’abjection: La mémoire du socialisme à l’épreuve de la transformation postsocialiste
Cet article se penche sur les visions positives du socialisme qui ont circulé en Roumanie après la chute du régime socialiste, en proposant de les aborder dans une perspective qui rende compte de leur capacité heuristique et de leur inscription dans des processus sociaux. En partant du discours développé par les cadres agricoles, l’auteure met en évidence la manière dont la mémoire du socialisme s’enracine dans l’expérience concrète des acteurs e…
Making up people». Classifications étatiques, catégories locales et gestion des identités dans la collectivisation des campagnes roumaines
making up people" : state classifications, local categories and the management of identities in the collectivization of the romanian countryside. The analysis of the current transformations taking place in Eastern Europe is due to answer to two research imperatives : a better understanding of the functioning of socialism, and a better comprehension of the place the state occupies in the societies of these countries. While trying to answer this ch…
What's in a Pig? ``State'', ``Market'' and Process in Private Pig Production and Consumption in Romania
Some Aspects of postcommunist privatization
Cet article présente plusieurs aspects des privatisations, élément clé du changement institutionnel dans l'Europe de l'Est d'aujourd'hui. Tout d'abord on étudiera le passage de la propriété d'état à la propriété privée dans le contexte de l'actuel changement de système en Europe de l'Est, en montrant ses résultats possibles. On présentera aussi brièvement plusieurs problèmes macro et microéconomiques. Enfin seront soulignés des aspects politiques…
Neither commodities nor gifts: Post-socialist informal exchanges in the Romanian healthcare system
This article approaches informal relations in post-socialist settings from a political economy perspective. Taking as a case study informal exchanges in the Romanian healthcare system, the article addresses the question of their continuity in the face of both divergent claims and increased monetarization of exchanges. It contends that informal exchanges are individual responses to the increased inequalities that followed the post-socialist redesi…
Transnational healthcare practices of Romanian migrants in Ireland: Inequalities of access and the privatisation of healthcare services in Europe
Explaining Romanian labor migration: From development gaps to development trajectories
While migration scholars often neglect the national and transnational relations of production and exchange within which labor migration occurs, international political economists tend to treat labor migration as a mere side effect of transnational capitalism. By contrast, this article considers the constitutive role that post-socialist transformations and the EU integration played in shaping the various patterns of intra-European east–west labor …
Pursuing an overarching commodification script through country-specific interventions? The EU's New Economic Governance prescriptions in healthcare (2009-2019)
After the 2008 financial crisis, the European Union (EU) introduced a New Economic Governance (NEG) regime, which enabled much more coercive interventions of EU executives in social policy areas hitherto shielded from them. This study assesses the policy orientation of their NEG prescriptions in healthcare for Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Romania from 2009 to 2019 and the potential for countervailing actions of labour movements. Acknowledging org…
Accumulation by Dispossession and Public-Private Biomedical Pluralism in Romanian Health Care
Neoliberal reforms in health care are an accumulation by dispossession. In examining this in Romania, we show that neoliberal reforms led to an uneven landscape of public and private care. We document how patients variously situated in Romanian society respond to this situation, and demonstrate the instability of their strategies-restraining from formal care, lifting-off from public care and hooking-up to private care. Public-private biomedical p…
Introduction: Politicizing the transnational
Labor movements have always found it difficult to reveal and transform the social relations that constitute markets. The growing transnational movements of goods, capital, and services in themselves have therefore not triggered closer trade union cooperation across borders. Transnational collective action also requires conscious choices and a mutual understanding that solidarity across borders is warranted. For this reason, this special issue of …
Bringing EU citizens together or pulling them apart? The European Health Insurance Card, east–west mobility and the failed promise of European social integration
Although the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) was meant to bring Europeans together, this study shows that it is amplifying social inequalities across regions and classes. First, we evaluate the effects of east–west EHIC mobility, and of Eastern Europeans’ participation in it, on the practice of EU social citizenship rights to access cross-border care along spatial (east–west) and social class divides. We then assess the impact of these mobi…
High-tech Romania? Commoditisation and Informal Relations in the Managerialist Informatisation of the Romanian Health-Care System
While informatisation has officially been hailed as a major component of the modernisation of the Romanian health-care system, this paper, based on ethnographic research in Romanian hospitals, shows that it has been mostly geared towards managerialist goals of administrative control and cost containment. Paradoxically, informal relations, which were supposed to be suppressed as a result of both informatisation and managerialist marketisation, con…
Faire marcher » le marché: L’anthropologie à l’épreuve de l’économie postsocialiste
À travers une analyse de l'utilisation de la notion de « marché », l'article se propose de documenter la manière dont les anthropologues ont construit les notions de socialisme et de postsocialisme. Il montre que les études analysées ont recours à une vision du marché qui reste largement essentialiste, anhistorique, et insensible aux rapports de pouvoir qui participent à la construction sociale de cette forme d'échange. L'article avance que c'est…
Some Aspects of postcommunist privatization
Cet article présente plusieurs aspects des privatisations, élément clé du changement institutionnel dans l'Europe de l'Est d'aujourd'hui. Tout d'abord on étudiera le passage de la propriété d'état à la propriété privée dans le contexte de l'actuel changement de système en Europe de l'Est, en montrant ses résultats possibles. On présentera aussi brièvement plusieurs problèmes macro et microéconomiques. Enfin seront soulignés des aspects politiques…
What's in a Pig? ``State'', ``Market'' and Process in Private Pig Production and Consumption in Romania
Making up people». Classifications étatiques, catégories locales et gestion des identités dans la collectivisation des campagnes roumaines
making up people" : state classifications, local categories and the management of identities in the collectivization of the romanian countryside. The analysis of the current transformations taking place in Eastern Europe is due to answer to two research imperatives : a better understanding of the functioning of socialism, and a better comprehension of the place the state occupies in the societies of these countries. While trying to answer this ch…
De la nostalgie à l’abjection: La mémoire du socialisme à l’épreuve de la transformation postsocialiste
Cet article se penche sur les visions positives du socialisme qui ont circulé en Roumanie après la chute du régime socialiste, en proposant de les aborder dans une perspective qui rende compte de leur capacité heuristique et de leur inscription dans des processus sociaux. En partant du discours développé par les cadres agricoles, l’auteure met en évidence la manière dont la mémoire du socialisme s’enracine dans l’expérience concrète des acteurs e…
Faire marcher » le marché: L’anthropologie à l’épreuve de l’économie postsocialiste
À travers une analyse de l'utilisation de la notion de « marché », l'article se propose de documenter la manière dont les anthropologues ont construit les notions de socialisme et de postsocialisme. Il montre que les études analysées ont recours à une vision du marché qui reste largement essentialiste, anhistorique, et insensible aux rapports de pouvoir qui participent à la construction sociale de cette forme d'échange. L'article avance que c'est…
High-tech Romania? Commoditisation and Informal Relations in the Managerialist Informatisation of the Romanian Health-Care System
While informatisation has officially been hailed as a major component of the modernisation of the Romanian health-care system, this paper, based on ethnographic research in Romanian hospitals, shows that it has been mostly geared towards managerialist goals of administrative control and cost containment. Paradoxically, informal relations, which were supposed to be suppressed as a result of both informatisation and managerialist marketisation, con…
Neither commodities nor gifts: Post-socialist informal exchanges in the Romanian healthcare system
This article approaches informal relations in post-socialist settings from a political economy perspective. Taking as a case study informal exchanges in the Romanian healthcare system, the article addresses the question of their continuity in the face of both divergent claims and increased monetarization of exchanges. It contends that informal exchanges are individual responses to the increased inequalities that followed the post-socialist redesi…
Explaining Romanian labor migration: From development gaps to development trajectories
While migration scholars often neglect the national and transnational relations of production and exchange within which labor migration occurs, international political economists tend to treat labor migration as a mere side effect of transnational capitalism. By contrast, this article considers the constitutive role that post-socialist transformations and the EU integration played in shaping the various patterns of intra-European east–west labor …
Transnational healthcare practices of Romanian migrants in Ireland: Inequalities of access and the privatisation of healthcare services in Europe
Introduction: Politicizing the transnational
Labor movements have always found it difficult to reveal and transform the social relations that constitute markets. The growing transnational movements of goods, capital, and services in themselves have therefore not triggered closer trade union cooperation across borders. Transnational collective action also requires conscious choices and a mutual understanding that solidarity across borders is warranted. For this reason, this special issue of …
Looking for a place to stand: Theory, field and holism in contemporary anthropology
This chapter discusses some of the claims to disciplinary relevance that have become dominant in anthropology in the last decades, most particularly those which are rooted in postmodernism and poststructuralism. It considers explicit theoretical orientations and dominance in current anthropology, and thus their translation into implicit dispositions informing anthropological writing and arguments. The chapter looks at some of the implications tha…
Neoliberal Citizenship and the Politics of Corruption: Redefining Informal Exchange in Romanian Healthcare
Accumulation by Dispossession and Public-Private Biomedical Pluralism in Romanian Health Care
Neoliberal reforms in health care are an accumulation by dispossession. In examining this in Romania, we show that neoliberal reforms led to an uneven landscape of public and private care. We document how patients variously situated in Romanian society respond to this situation, and demonstrate the instability of their strategies-restraining from formal care, lifting-off from public care and hooking-up to private care. Public-private biomedical p…
Bringing EU citizens together or pulling them apart? The European Health Insurance Card, east–west mobility and the failed promise of European social integration
Although the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) was meant to bring Europeans together, this study shows that it is amplifying social inequalities across regions and classes. First, we evaluate the effects of east–west EHIC mobility, and of Eastern Europeans’ participation in it, on the practice of EU social citizenship rights to access cross-border care along spatial (east–west) and social class divides. We then assess the impact of these mobi…
Time for a paradigm change? Incorporating transnational processes into the analysis of the emerging European health-care system
Health services have long been insulated from the process of European integration. In this article, however, we show that we are witnessing their re-configuration in an emerging EU health-care system. The article uncovers the structuring lines of this system by focusing on three interrelated EU-wide processes influencing the integration of national health-care systems into a larger whole. First, the privatisation of health-care services following…
Bringing society back into our understanding of European cross-border care
We are pleased to discuss our study on the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) and the redistributive effects of EHIC-related east–west patient and payment flows across regions and social classes. Our critics confirm our key finding: EHIC patient outflows from Eastern European (EE) to Western European (WE) countries result in a much higher relative burden for the budgets of EE states than outflows from WE to EE do for WE countries. Starting fro…
Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency
This book examines the new economic governance (NEG) regime that the EU adopted after 2008. Its novel research design captures the supranational formulation of NEG prescriptions and their uneven deployment across countries (Germany, Italy, Ireland, Romania), policy areas (employment relations, public services), and sectors (transport, water, healthcare). NEG led to a much more vertical mode of EU integration, and its commodification agenda unleas…
Impact of Newton Technology-Enhanced Learning Solutions on Knowledge Acquisition in Pilots Involving Students With Hearing Impairments
Contributions: This article presents the results of a study carried out as part of two large-scale pilots and analyzes the impact of the use of modern technologies in education in term of knowledge acquisition in case of students with hearing disabilities. Background: Teaching topics from STEM area is a challenging task for all teachers who have students with hearing disabilities in their class. On the one hand, because of the high degree of diff…
Pursuing an overarching commodification script through country-specific interventions? The EU's New Economic Governance prescriptions in healthcare (2009-2019)
After the 2008 financial crisis, the European Union (EU) introduced a New Economic Governance (NEG) regime, which enabled much more coercive interventions of EU executives in social policy areas hitherto shielded from them. This study assesses the policy orientation of their NEG prescriptions in healthcare for Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Romania from 2009 to 2019 and the potential for countervailing actions of labour movements. Acknowledging org…
Politicising Commodification: A Response to Ban, Béthoux, Rhodes, and Martínez Lucio
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