Gruia Bădescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 73894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gruia Bădescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gruia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bădescu |
| SIGNATURE | BĂDESCU G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0180-8960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rescaling memory: Dialogic practices and intergenerational engagement in rural Romania
This article illustrates the transformative potential of dialogic memory practices by examining a series of workshops in rural Romania that decentralized memory work by engaging local libraries in intergenerational dialogue. Organized within the Europe for Citizens project Reshaping the Image of Democratic Revolutions 1989 , the Romanian initiative shifted attention from national commemorative centers to villages largely absent from dominant narr…
Memory
Research on memory—from the cognitive and neurobiological aspects of remembering and forgetting to inquiries in the social sciences and humanities about how societies remember—is inherently interdisciplinary. The study of memory in the social sciences has gone through several waves. First, there was the foundational work on collective memory in the 1920s, led by figures such as Maurice Halbwachs and Aby Warburg, which opened the study of memory i…
Transnational processes of memory, migration and identity in Central and South-Eastern Europe
Remaking the Urban: International Actors and the Post-war Reconstruction of Cities
The postwar reconstruction of cities has become an arena of international actors who mobilize different narratives of power and reshape conflict using other means. This article highlights how international actors use urban reconfigurations as a tool for intervening in the broader postconflict reconstruction of societies. First, it shows that the postwar reconstruction of cities is not only a set of spatial and economic processes of remaking the u…
Perspectives on Creolizing the Modern
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online November 9, 2023Perspectives on Creolizing the ModernLaura Doyle, Sunnie Rucker Chang, [...], Katja Perat, Gruia Badescu, Manuela Boatcă, and Anca Parvulescu+3-3View all authors and affiliationsVolume 31, Issue 4https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X231208060
Difficult Heritage in Southeastern Europe: Local and Transnational Entanglements in Memorializing Political Prisons after Socialism
Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, various governments supported the creation of memorial museums of political violence during state socialism. While much scholarly attention has been given to Hungary’s House of Terror and the Baltic museums of occupations, this article examines the contrasting situation in Southeastern Europe, where state actors were generally absent and which witnessed relatively belated and overwhelmingly bottom-up process…
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities: Perspectives from the European South-East
Connecting urban geopolitics with critical geopolitics, this article highlights the urban geopolitical significance of learning from the European South-east. Urban geopolitics has often made reference to the European South-east in discussions of urban warfare, conflict and contestation. In particular, Sarajevo and discussions of urbicide played a seminal role in understanding the contemporary relationship between conflict and the built environmen…
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace
This article investigates the relationship between spatial reconfigurations and peace by examining the practice I call syncretic place-making, identified in cities experiencing conflict. I suggest that this spatial practice reflects the promise of Hannah Arendt’s political vision of a world in common, materialized in the city. I discuss architectural conceptualizations such as the Cypriot 2021 Venice Biennial entry and theorize from architectural…
Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia: Synchronous Pasts
Homelands and dictators: Migration, memory, and belonging between Southeastern Europe and Chile
In the last three decades, a 'memory fever'concerning past dictatorships and political violence emerged both in the Latin American Southern Cone and in Central and Eastern Europe. Both regions witnessed the creation and then consolidation of memory regimes related to remembering military dictatorships and state socialism, respectively. This article interrogates how transnational migration experiences between the two regions challenge nationally f…
Rewritten in stone: Imperial heritage in the sacred place of the nation
This article examines the relationship between architectural transformations and the reshaping of memory in post-imperial urban space. It reflects on two forms of symbolic violence: first, iconoclastic acts of reshaping space to reflect national self-determination and moving away from empire, and second, acts that embody the recovery of imperial legacies. It analyzes the recent restoration of the Habsburg-built Alba Iulia citadel in the eve of Ro…
Entangled Islands of Memory: Actors and Circulations of Site Memorialisation Practice Between the Latin American Southern Cone and Central and Eastern Europe
The (re)claiming and memorialisation of sites associated with political violence occurred in the aftermath of dictatorships in both Europe and Latin America. This article examines the circulation of such practices of memorialising sites, including memorial architectural design and museographic approaches within and between the regions of the Southern Cone of Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the ways in which various actor…
Making Sense of Ruins: Architectural Reconstruction and Collective Memory in Belgrade
Fifteen years after the 1999 NATO bombings, a number of emblematic buildings in Belgrade still lie in ruins and are at the center of debates surrounding their reconstruction. This article examines the collective memory and narratives of the NATO bombings through a spatial lens, looking at how architectural discourses of reconstruction relate to multiple understandings and narratives of the bombings themselves. It focuses on how architects in Belg…
Traces of empire: Architectural heritage, imperial memory and post-war reconstruction in Sarajevo and Beirut
Beirut and Sarajevo share a long Ottoman past followed by urban expansion under the protectorate of further imperial rule – of the French and Habsburg Empires, respectively, as well as a recent experience of urban warfare, segregation, and post-war reconstruction. This article examines how the architectural heritage of empires in the two cities has been transformed, reimagined and mobilized through urban post-war reconstruction by a number of act…
Curating Change in the Museum: Introduction to the Volume
Museums are places of conservation but they do not necessarily have to be conservative places. On the contrary, museums are sometimes at the vanguard of cultural innovation, changing the world rather than keeping up with the way the world changes. This thematic issue brings together texts and case-studies of museums challenging the status-quo, opening up instead of closing in, daring instead of being cautious, all the while keeping up the standar…
(Post) Colonial Encounters in the Postsocialist City: Reshaping Urban Space in Sarajevo
This article argues that postcolonial lenses can be useful in understanding postsocialism in particular urban situations, examining the postsocialist city of Sarajevo as an arena of postcolonial practices, processes and relationships. The city discussed, Sarajevo, provides a rich example of entanglements and relationships, both historical and of more recent origin. The article discusses with a postcolonial lens processes of urban reconstruction, …
Achieved without Ambiguity?' Memorializing Victimhood in Belgrade after the 1999 Nato Bombing
This paper examines the memory and narratives of the 1999 NATO bombings through a spatial lens, discussing how the debates surrounding memorial architecture reflect the multiple, and at times conflicting, understandings of the NATO bombing. By analysing the competition to reconstruct Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) from its ruins, this article discusses the tensions and challenges brought by narratives representing victimhood in Belgrade after 1…
D welling in the P ost -W ar C ity U rban R econstruction and H ome -M aking in S arajevo
A bstract : This article explores how the process of urban reconstruction and the act of dwelling in post-war Sarajevo were connected to the reshaping of post-war identities in BiH, as well as to the (re)creation of a sense of place and a sense of belonging for pre-war residents and new residents alike. Interviews with architects, urban planners and residents from a variety of backgrounds were used to understand city-making and home-making proces…
Dwelling in the Post-War City Urban Reconstruction and Home-Making in Sarajevo
This article explores how the process of urban reconstruction and the act of dwelling in post-war Sarajevo were connected to the reshaping of post-war identities in BiH, as well as to the (re)creation of a sense of place and a sense of belonging for pre-war residents and new residents alike. Interviews with architects, urban planners and residents from a variety of backgrounds were used to understand city-making and home-making processes. In the …
Dwelling in the post-war city: Urban reconstruction and home-making in Sarajevo
A bstract : This article explores how the process of urban reconstruction and the act of dwelling in post-war Sarajevo were connected to the reshaping of post-war identities in BiH, as well as to the (re)creation of a sense of place and a sense of belonging for pre-war residents and new residents alike. Interviews with architects, urban planners and residents from a variety of backgrounds were used to understand city-making and home-making proces…
Making Sense of Ruins: Architectural Reconstruction and Collective Memory in Belgrade
Fifteen years after the 1999 NATO bombings, a number of emblematic buildings in Belgrade still lie in ruins and are at the center of debates surrounding their reconstruction. This article examines the collective memory and narratives of the NATO bombings through a spatial lens, looking at how architectural discourses of reconstruction relate to multiple understandings and narratives of the bombings themselves. It focuses on how architects in Belg…
(Post) Colonial Encounters in the Postsocialist City: Reshaping Urban Space in Sarajevo
This article argues that postcolonial lenses can be useful in understanding postsocialism in particular urban situations, examining the postsocialist city of Sarajevo as an arena of postcolonial practices, processes and relationships. The city discussed, Sarajevo, provides a rich example of entanglements and relationships, both historical and of more recent origin. The article discusses with a postcolonial lens processes of urban reconstruction, …
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities: Perspectives from the European South-East
Connecting urban geopolitics with critical geopolitics, this article highlights the urban geopolitical significance of learning from the European South-east. Urban geopolitics has often made reference to the European South-east in discussions of urban warfare, conflict and contestation. In particular, Sarajevo and discussions of urbicide played a seminal role in understanding the contemporary relationship between conflict and the built environmen…
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace
This article investigates the relationship between spatial reconfigurations and peace by examining the practice I call syncretic place-making, identified in cities experiencing conflict. I suggest that this spatial practice reflects the promise of Hannah Arendt’s political vision of a world in common, materialized in the city. I discuss architectural conceptualizations such as the Cypriot 2021 Venice Biennial entry and theorize from architectural…
Entangled Islands of Memory: Actors and Circulations of Site Memorialisation Practice Between the Latin American Southern Cone and Central and Eastern Europe
The (re)claiming and memorialisation of sites associated with political violence occurred in the aftermath of dictatorships in both Europe and Latin America. This article examines the circulation of such practices of memorialising sites, including memorial architectural design and museographic approaches within and between the regions of the Southern Cone of Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the ways in which various actor…
Traces of empire: Architectural heritage, imperial memory and post-war reconstruction in Sarajevo and Beirut
Beirut and Sarajevo share a long Ottoman past followed by urban expansion under the protectorate of further imperial rule – of the French and Habsburg Empires, respectively, as well as a recent experience of urban warfare, segregation, and post-war reconstruction. This article examines how the architectural heritage of empires in the two cities has been transformed, reimagined and mobilized through urban post-war reconstruction by a number of act…
Dwelling in the Post-War City Urban Reconstruction and Home-Making in Sarajevo
This article explores how the process of urban reconstruction and the act of dwelling in post-war Sarajevo were connected to the reshaping of post-war identities in BiH, as well as to the (re)creation of a sense of place and a sense of belonging for pre-war residents and new residents alike. Interviews with architects, urban planners and residents from a variety of backgrounds were used to understand city-making and home-making processes. In the …
Perspectives on Creolizing the Modern
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online November 9, 2023Perspectives on Creolizing the ModernLaura Doyle, Sunnie Rucker Chang, [...], Katja Perat, Gruia Badescu, Manuela Boatcă, and Anca Parvulescu+3-3View all authors and affiliationsVolume 31, Issue 4https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X231208060
Remaking the Urban: International Actors and the Post-war Reconstruction of Cities
The postwar reconstruction of cities has become an arena of international actors who mobilize different narratives of power and reshape conflict using other means. This article highlights how international actors use urban reconfigurations as a tool for intervening in the broader postconflict reconstruction of societies. First, it shows that the postwar reconstruction of cities is not only a set of spatial and economic processes of remaking the u…
Difficult Heritage in Southeastern Europe: Local and Transnational Entanglements in Memorializing Political Prisons after Socialism
Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, various governments supported the creation of memorial museums of political violence during state socialism. While much scholarly attention has been given to Hungary’s House of Terror and the Baltic museums of occupations, this article examines the contrasting situation in Southeastern Europe, where state actors were generally absent and which witnessed relatively belated and overwhelmingly bottom-up process…
Curating Change in the Museum: Introduction to the Volume
Museums are places of conservation but they do not necessarily have to be conservative places. On the contrary, museums are sometimes at the vanguard of cultural innovation, changing the world rather than keeping up with the way the world changes. This thematic issue brings together texts and case-studies of museums challenging the status-quo, opening up instead of closing in, daring instead of being cautious, all the while keeping up the standar…
Achieved without Ambiguity?' Memorializing Victimhood in Belgrade after the 1999 Nato Bombing
This paper examines the memory and narratives of the 1999 NATO bombings through a spatial lens, discussing how the debates surrounding memorial architecture reflect the multiple, and at times conflicting, understandings of the NATO bombing. By analysing the competition to reconstruct Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) from its ruins, this article discusses the tensions and challenges brought by narratives representing victimhood in Belgrade after 1…
D welling in the P ost -W ar C ity U rban R econstruction and H ome -M aking in S arajevo
A bstract : This article explores how the process of urban reconstruction and the act of dwelling in post-war Sarajevo were connected to the reshaping of post-war identities in BiH, as well as to the (re)creation of a sense of place and a sense of belonging for pre-war residents and new residents alike. Interviews with architects, urban planners and residents from a variety of backgrounds were used to understand city-making and home-making proces…
Dwelling in the Post-War City Urban Reconstruction and Home-Making in Sarajevo
This article explores how the process of urban reconstruction and the act of dwelling in post-war Sarajevo were connected to the reshaping of post-war identities in BiH, as well as to the (re)creation of a sense of place and a sense of belonging for pre-war residents and new residents alike. Interviews with architects, urban planners and residents from a variety of backgrounds were used to understand city-making and home-making processes. In the …
Dwelling in the post-war city: Urban reconstruction and home-making in Sarajevo
A bstract : This article explores how the process of urban reconstruction and the act of dwelling in post-war Sarajevo were connected to the reshaping of post-war identities in BiH, as well as to the (re)creation of a sense of place and a sense of belonging for pre-war residents and new residents alike. Interviews with architects, urban planners and residents from a variety of backgrounds were used to understand city-making and home-making proces…
(Post) Colonial Encounters in the Postsocialist City: Reshaping Urban Space in Sarajevo
This article argues that postcolonial lenses can be useful in understanding postsocialism in particular urban situations, examining the postsocialist city of Sarajevo as an arena of postcolonial practices, processes and relationships. The city discussed, Sarajevo, provides a rich example of entanglements and relationships, both historical and of more recent origin. The article discusses with a postcolonial lens processes of urban reconstruction, …
Achieved without Ambiguity?' Memorializing Victimhood in Belgrade after the 1999 Nato Bombing
This paper examines the memory and narratives of the 1999 NATO bombings through a spatial lens, discussing how the debates surrounding memorial architecture reflect the multiple, and at times conflicting, understandings of the NATO bombing. By analysing the competition to reconstruct Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) from its ruins, this article discusses the tensions and challenges brought by narratives representing victimhood in Belgrade after 1…
Curating Change in the Museum: Introduction to the Volume
Museums are places of conservation but they do not necessarily have to be conservative places. On the contrary, museums are sometimes at the vanguard of cultural innovation, changing the world rather than keeping up with the way the world changes. This thematic issue brings together texts and case-studies of museums challenging the status-quo, opening up instead of closing in, daring instead of being cautious, all the while keeping up the standar…
Entangled Islands of Memory: Actors and Circulations of Site Memorialisation Practice Between the Latin American Southern Cone and Central and Eastern Europe
The (re)claiming and memorialisation of sites associated with political violence occurred in the aftermath of dictatorships in both Europe and Latin America. This article examines the circulation of such practices of memorialising sites, including memorial architectural design and museographic approaches within and between the regions of the Southern Cone of Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the ways in which various actor…
Making Sense of Ruins: Architectural Reconstruction and Collective Memory in Belgrade
Fifteen years after the 1999 NATO bombings, a number of emblematic buildings in Belgrade still lie in ruins and are at the center of debates surrounding their reconstruction. This article examines the collective memory and narratives of the NATO bombings through a spatial lens, looking at how architectural discourses of reconstruction relate to multiple understandings and narratives of the bombings themselves. It focuses on how architects in Belg…
Traces of empire: Architectural heritage, imperial memory and post-war reconstruction in Sarajevo and Beirut
Beirut and Sarajevo share a long Ottoman past followed by urban expansion under the protectorate of further imperial rule – of the French and Habsburg Empires, respectively, as well as a recent experience of urban warfare, segregation, and post-war reconstruction. This article examines how the architectural heritage of empires in the two cities has been transformed, reimagined and mobilized through urban post-war reconstruction by a number of act…
Rewritten in stone: Imperial heritage in the sacred place of the nation
This article examines the relationship between architectural transformations and the reshaping of memory in post-imperial urban space. It reflects on two forms of symbolic violence: first, iconoclastic acts of reshaping space to reflect national self-determination and moving away from empire, and second, acts that embody the recovery of imperial legacies. It analyzes the recent restoration of the Habsburg-built Alba Iulia citadel in the eve of Ro…
Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia: Synchronous Pasts
Homelands and dictators: Migration, memory, and belonging between Southeastern Europe and Chile
In the last three decades, a 'memory fever'concerning past dictatorships and political violence emerged both in the Latin American Southern Cone and in Central and Eastern Europe. Both regions witnessed the creation and then consolidation of memory regimes related to remembering military dictatorships and state socialism, respectively. This article interrogates how transnational migration experiences between the two regions challenge nationally f…
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace
This article investigates the relationship between spatial reconfigurations and peace by examining the practice I call syncretic place-making, identified in cities experiencing conflict. I suggest that this spatial practice reflects the promise of Hannah Arendt’s political vision of a world in common, materialized in the city. I discuss architectural conceptualizations such as the Cypriot 2021 Venice Biennial entry and theorize from architectural…
Perspectives on Creolizing the Modern
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online November 9, 2023Perspectives on Creolizing the ModernLaura Doyle, Sunnie Rucker Chang, [...], Katja Perat, Gruia Badescu, Manuela Boatcă, and Anca Parvulescu+3-3View all authors and affiliationsVolume 31, Issue 4https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X231208060
Difficult Heritage in Southeastern Europe: Local and Transnational Entanglements in Memorializing Political Prisons after Socialism
Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, various governments supported the creation of memorial museums of political violence during state socialism. While much scholarly attention has been given to Hungary’s House of Terror and the Baltic museums of occupations, this article examines the contrasting situation in Southeastern Europe, where state actors were generally absent and which witnessed relatively belated and overwhelmingly bottom-up process…
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities: Perspectives from the European South-East
Connecting urban geopolitics with critical geopolitics, this article highlights the urban geopolitical significance of learning from the European South-east. Urban geopolitics has often made reference to the European South-east in discussions of urban warfare, conflict and contestation. In particular, Sarajevo and discussions of urbicide played a seminal role in understanding the contemporary relationship between conflict and the built environmen…
Remaking the Urban: International Actors and the Post-war Reconstruction of Cities
The postwar reconstruction of cities has become an arena of international actors who mobilize different narratives of power and reshape conflict using other means. This article highlights how international actors use urban reconfigurations as a tool for intervening in the broader postconflict reconstruction of societies. First, it shows that the postwar reconstruction of cities is not only a set of spatial and economic processes of remaking the u…
Memory
Research on memory—from the cognitive and neurobiological aspects of remembering and forgetting to inquiries in the social sciences and humanities about how societies remember—is inherently interdisciplinary. The study of memory in the social sciences has gone through several waves. First, there was the foundational work on collective memory in the 1920s, led by figures such as Maurice Halbwachs and Aby Warburg, which opened the study of memory i…
Transnational processes of memory, migration and identity in Central and South-Eastern Europe
Rescaling memory: Dialogic practices and intergenerational engagement in rural Romania
This article illustrates the transformative potential of dialogic memory practices by examining a series of workshops in rural Romania that decentralized memory work by engaging local libraries in intergenerational dialogue. Organized within the Europe for Citizens project Reshaping the Image of Democratic Revolutions 1989 , the Romanian initiative shifted attention from national commemorative centers to villages largely absent from dominant narr…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Art (6 works)