Diana Georgescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 846695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Georgescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Georgescu |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGESCU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, scholars are still exploring how socialist states and institutions behind the Iron Curtain functioned, often drawing on previously secret documents that have gradually become available since the 1990s.Not least because it conjures up the spectre of international espionage and totalitarian control, few other institutions in socialist Eastern Europe have incited more interest than the secret police.Public…
Small Comrades as Historians and Ethnographers: Performativity, Agency, and the Socialist Pedagogy of Citizenship in Ceaușescu's Romania, 1969-1989
Beginning with the state's successful promotion of purposeful and patriotic tourism for children in Ceaușescu's Romania, this article argues that we should move beyond traditional representations of the relationship between citizens and the socialist state in oppositional terms that emphasize resistance, subversion, and indifference, leaving historical subjects strangely disconnected from their socio-political context. Children and teachers who e…
Between Trauma and Nostalgia. The Intellectual Ethos and Generational Dynamics of Memory in Postsocialist Romania
In Romania, as elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the collapse of communism triggered a testimonial drive that shifted from early concerns with victimhood, justice, and retribution to seemingly apolitical revivals of everyday life under socialism. Drawing on a range of memoirs of socialist childhood published over the last decade by an aspiring generation of Romanian writers, this article examines the role of public intellectuals in articulating hegemo…
A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries
150 expertly-researched biographical portraits (with pictures) of women and men who were active in, or part of, women's movements and feminisms in 22 countries in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
Small Comrades as Historians and Ethnographers: Performativity, Agency, and the Socialist Pedagogy of Citizenship in Ceaușescu's Romania, 1969-1989
Beginning with the state's successful promotion of purposeful and patriotic tourism for children in Ceaușescu's Romania, this article argues that we should move beyond traditional representations of the relationship between citizens and the socialist state in oppositional terms that emphasize resistance, subversion, and indifference, leaving historical subjects strangely disconnected from their socio-political context. Children and teachers who e…
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, scholars are still exploring how socialist states and institutions behind the Iron Curtain functioned, often drawing on previously secret documents that have gradually become available since the 1990s.Not least because it conjures up the spectre of international espionage and totalitarian control, few other institutions in socialist Eastern Europe have incited more interest than the secret police.Public…
A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries
150 expertly-researched biographical portraits (with pictures) of women and men who were active in, or part of, women's movements and feminisms in 22 countries in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
Between Trauma and Nostalgia. The Intellectual Ethos and Generational Dynamics of Memory in Postsocialist Romania
In Romania, as elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the collapse of communism triggered a testimonial drive that shifted from early concerns with victimhood, justice, and retribution to seemingly apolitical revivals of everyday life under socialism. Drawing on a range of memoirs of socialist childhood published over the last decade by an aspiring generation of Romanian writers, this article examines the role of public intellectuals in articulating hegemo…
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, scholars are still exploring how socialist states and institutions behind the Iron Curtain functioned, often drawing on previously secret documents that have gradually become available since the 1990s.Not least because it conjures up the spectre of international espionage and totalitarian control, few other institutions in socialist Eastern Europe have incited more interest than the secret police.Public…
Small Comrades as Historians and Ethnographers: Performativity, Agency, and the Socialist Pedagogy of Citizenship in Ceaușescu's Romania, 1969-1989
Beginning with the state's successful promotion of purposeful and patriotic tourism for children in Ceaușescu's Romania, this article argues that we should move beyond traditional representations of the relationship between citizens and the socialist state in oppositional terms that emphasize resistance, subversion, and indifference, leaving historical subjects strangely disconnected from their socio-political context. Children and teachers who e…
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (3 works) · Communism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)