Manuela Boatcă
Biographic Data
| ID | 90970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuela Boatcă |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuela |
| FAMILY NAME | Boatcă |
| SIGNATURE | BOATCĂ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1255-9955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Smelling like a market: Investment migration, cunning states, and the coloniality of citizenship in the Caribbean
The administrative decolonization of Asia, Africa and parts of the Caribbean in the decades following World War II has given rise to a range of disconnected and unequal citizenships in discrete polities. While the citizenships of former colonial powers guaranteed access to higher incomes, security, infrastructure, and welfare systems, as well as a high degree of international mobility, citizenships of newly independent states scored much lower on…
Subjects, Disavowed: Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories
On unboxing and unpacking across empires, regions and disciplines
Wendepunkte der Moderne: Refiguration und Transformation in der Karibik
Der Artikel verbindet eine Neuverortung und -datierung der Moderne mit rezenten refigurations- und transformationssoziologischen Debatten. Argumentiert wird zunächst, dass eine post- und dekoloniale Analyse aufgrund grundlegender Umbrüche und langfristiger, räumlicher Neuordnungen sowohl eines Konzepts von Refiguration als auch eines von Transformation bedarf. Dazu schlägt der Beitrag ein konzeptuelles Vokabular vor, das sich maßgeblich auf histo…
Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory
The conversation between Ali Meghji and Manuela Boatcă focuses on how modernity/coloniality may (or may not) be a productive sociological concept in the remit of global social theory and wider political movements. Speaking from within different locations in the imperial core (England and Germany respectively), we discuss how the concept of modernity/coloniality has traveled over to our respective European contexts, and the ways it has informed ou…
The 'Not Quite' as a Form of Relationality
Handbuch Entwicklungsforschung
Das Handbuch führt in den Diskussionsstand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Entwicklungsforschung und deren Theorien, Forschungsfelder und Methoden ein.
Uncommon Sense: Europeans, with Manuela Boatcă [Audio podcast episode]
Does anyone know whatEuropean means?Manuela Boatcă thought she did, until a late 1990s move from Romania to Germany unsettled everything she had taken for granted.Here, she challenges mainstream ideas of "Europe" to show how its borders extend to the Caribbean and beyond -a fact that is obvious if we acknowledge colonialism's past and present, but it is an inconvenient truth for some in political power
Globale Ungleichheiten avant la lettre: Theoretische Genealogien und radikale Kritik
In dem Artikel argumentiere ich, dass die Weltsystemanalyse entscheidend dazu beigetragen hat, die theoretischen und methodologischen blinden Flecken der Soziologie aufzudecken und einen umfassenden Rahmen für die Untersuchung globaler Ungleichheiten zu formulieren. Damit nahm sie sowohl die Kritik an Eurozentrismus und methodologischem Nationalismus, die von transnationalen und postkolonialen Ansätzen vorgebracht wurde, als auch die Debatten übe…
Postcolonialism and sociology
In this email debate we discuss the relation between postcolonialism and sociology and the impact the new field has on engagement with public causes and current policies. While post- and decolonial approaches had a significant impact on the humanities, reception in sociology has been more reluctant. The reasons for this difference as well as recent connections between postcolonial thought and sociology are discussed against the background of the …
Global Social Inequalities and the Coloniality of Citizenship, Past and Present: A Conversation Between Manuela Boatcă and Michaela Benson
This conversation between Michaela Benson and Manuela Boatcă focuses on the coloniality of citizenship. Where dominant understandings of citizenship link this to the emergence of the nation and its national political community, this conversation considers what we can learn about present-day global social inequalities from examining the development of citizenship through a close consideration of Manuela's work on this topic. It takes as its starti…
Creolization as Method
“What took place in the Caribbean,” writes Édouard Glissant, “which could be summed up in the word creolization, approximates the idea of Relation as nearly as possible.” 1 For Glissant, the word creolization condenses the history of the Caribbean. This is a history characterized by trans-border connections, culture flows, and the transregional movement of people and capital. 2 As the first region to be colonized by Europe in the sixteenth centur…
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
Of Rags and Riches in the Caribbean: Creolizing Migration Studies
In this article, we re-connect highly unequal mobilities in the Caribbean that have so far escaped the purview of migration research and challenge dominant understandings of migrant integration: By replacing the methodological Occidentalism shaping the field through a creolized decolonial lens, we show how the precarious position of Haitians in the Greater Caribbean and particularly in French Guiana testifies to how colonial histories shape unequ…
Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires
How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, this book provides innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel Ion . Top…
Postkolonialismus und Dekolonialität
Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires
How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebrean…
Creolizarea modernității
The article includes a preview excerpt, in Romanian, from the introduction of the book authored by Anca Pârvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, published by Cornell University Press in 2022. This volume espouses an inter-imperial approach focused on Transylvania and takes Liviu Rebreanuʼs canonical novel Ion as a case study
Reading sociological theory against its grain
Desigualdades Globais: Filiações Teóricas E Críticas Radicais
Este artigo argumenta que a abordagem do sistema-mundo de Immanuel Wallerstein foi fundamental para revelar pontos cegos teóricos e metodológicos da Sociologia e para formular um quadro abrangente para o estudo das desigualdades globais. Ao fazê-lo, antecipou tanto a crítica ao eurocentrismo como ao nacionalismo metodológico, apresentada pelas abordagens transnacionais e pós-coloniais, e os debates sobre o aumento das desigualdades globais em vár…
Lendo a teoria sociológica a contrapelo
Neste artigo, analisamos a circulação de links desinformativos sobre a pandemia de Covid-19 no Twitter, a partir de um conjunto de 159.560 links coletados da API do Twitter entre os meses de março e julho de 2020. Através de um mapeamento da rede e da observação da vizinhança dos links e dos links mais compartilhados, observamos uma polarização e redução da circulação dos links de acordo com seu sentido (pró-hidroxicloroquina ou anti-hidroxicloro…
The Inter-Imperial Dowry Plot: Modernist Naturalism in the Periphery of European Empires
Taking Liviu Rebreanu's novel Ion (1920) as an example of a modernist text produced in the periphery of European empires, the essay proposes a typology of inter-imperial modes of gendered silence. Set in a small village in Transylvania, on the periphery of the Austro-Hungarian empire, itself on the semi-periphery of the modern world-system, the novel dramatizes Transylvanian Romanians' claim to a modernity understood as a struggle for land redist…
Unequal institutions in the longue durée: Citizenship through a Southern lens
This article argues that focussing on issues of citizenship highlights the relationality of North/South dynamics and that doing so through a ‘Southern lens’ reveals two complementary and otherwise neglected aspects of North/South relationality: the coloniality of the institution of citizenship, and the lasting impact that (de)colonial contestations and reinterpretations of citizenship rights have had on this institution from its emergence in the …
Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean
The article makes a case for Europe as a creolized space, or Europe Otherwise. It argues that, in order to account for both the transregional entanglements and the internal hierarchies that European colonialism and imperialism have produced since at least the sixteenth century, we need to unlearn received notions of Europe as an unmarked category; and that theoretical and empirical lessons from the Caribbean are central to relearning Europe diffe…
Decolonizing European Sociology: Transdisciplinary Approaches
Unequal and gendered: Notes on the coloniality of citizenship
An entire Occidentalist tradition of citizenship theory viewed citizenship as a modern, progressive institution that helped overcome particularities of unequal social origin. Contrary to the claims of this (mainly male) Western scholarly tradition, the article argues, first, that the institution of citizenship has developed in the West through the legal (and physical) exclusion of non-European, non-White and non-Western populations from civic, po…
Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean
The article makes a case for Europe as a creolized space, or Europe Otherwise. It argues that, in order to account for both the transregional entanglements and the internal hierarchies that European colonialism and imperialism have produced since at least the sixteenth century, we need to unlearn received notions of Europe as an unmarked category; and that theoretical and empirical lessons from the Caribbean are central to relearning Europe diffe…
Semiperipheries in the World-System: Reflecting Eastern European and Latin American Experiences
This paper claims that, since many of the concepts relevant to our analysis of systemic change were coined in and about the core, the potential with which solutions to world-systemic crisis are credited in the long run should be assessed differently depending on the structural location of their origin. In the periphery, such concepts as conservatism, socialism and even liberalism took forms that often retained nothing of the original model but th…
Unequal institutions in the longue durée: Citizenship through a Southern lens
This article argues that focussing on issues of citizenship highlights the relationality of North/South dynamics and that doing so through a ‘Southern lens’ reveals two complementary and otherwise neglected aspects of North/South relationality: the coloniality of the institution of citizenship, and the lasting impact that (de)colonial contestations and reinterpretations of citizenship rights have had on this institution from its emergence in the …
The Centrality of Race to Inequality Across the World-System
While I agree, and have previously argued myself that closer attention should be paid to semiperipheries in terms of their transformative potential, I consider the claim that nonwestern semiperipheries exacerbate and even cause racial/ethnic inequality misleading. In the following, I thus want to caution against what I think are three weak links in the authors’ argument: mistaking visibility for causation, conflating the concept of race with the …
The Eastern Margins of Empire: Coloniality in 19thCentury Romania
Equating modernization with Westernization has historically been one of the strategies with the help of which the development of entire world regions has been programmatically defined as “catching up with the West”. As a result, structural problems that accounted for incongruities with the postulated model in particular countries were explained (away) as economic, institutional or cultural lags to be overcome by faithful application of developmen…
Creolizing Transylvania
This article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming in on how the tensions between different modes of colonial and imperial rule play out in rural settings. We foreground the vantage point of the rural by focusing on a Transylvanian village in 1920 as a global cou…
The longue durée of enslavement: Extracting labor from Romani music in Liviu Rebreanu's Ion
The enslavement of Romani populations in East Europe remains an eloquent silence in labor history. This essay traces the imbrication of material histories and textual strategies that place Romani labor, especially as aesthetic performance, outside of the purview of labor histories of East Europe. We sketch a history of enslavement of Romani populations in Wallachia and Moldova and of their regulation in Transylvania. We argue that the Romanian‐la…
Dynamics of inequalities in a global perspective: An introduction
The contribution in this introduction, and in this monograph issue of Current Sociology itself, is to explain how patterns of inequality associated with global capital have been reconfigured in different contexts and have historically produced varied results. The definition of global inequality used here transcends Euro- and US-centric models of linear development and comparisons of national income and its distribution to explain how complex soci…
Theorizing societalization across borders: Globality, transnationality, postcoloniality
The editorial summarizes the main conceptual and epistemological challenges of theorizing on society across borders. Its particular aim is to initiate the dialogue between theories of society and cross-border studies that address global, transnational and postcolonial relations. In essence, this special issue addresses four interrelated concerns of studying societal processes across borders. The first of these concerns is prompted by a decades-ol…
Racial urbanities: Towards a Global Cartography
Introduction to the Special Issue
Wendepunkte der Moderne: Refiguration und Transformation in der Karibik
Der Artikel verbindet eine Neuverortung und -datierung der Moderne mit rezenten refigurations- und transformationssoziologischen Debatten. Argumentiert wird zunächst, dass eine post- und dekoloniale Analyse aufgrund grundlegender Umbrüche und langfristiger, räumlicher Neuordnungen sowohl eines Konzepts von Refiguration als auch eines von Transformation bedarf. Dazu schlägt der Beitrag ein konzeptuelles Vokabular vor, das sich maßgeblich auf histo…
Of Rags and Riches in the Caribbean: Creolizing Migration Studies
In this article, we re-connect highly unequal mobilities in the Caribbean that have so far escaped the purview of migration research and challenge dominant understandings of migrant integration: By replacing the methodological Occidentalism shaping the field through a creolized decolonial lens, we show how the precarious position of Haitians in the Greater Caribbean and particularly in French Guiana testifies to how colonial histories shape unequ…
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
Creolizarea modernității
The article includes a preview excerpt, in Romanian, from the introduction of the book authored by Anca Pârvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, published by Cornell University Press in 2022. This volume espouses an inter-imperial approach focused on Transylvania and takes Liviu Rebreanuʼs canonical novel Ion as a case study
Special Issue Introduction: Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World-System
Introduction to Special Issue on Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World-System
Peripheral Solutions to Peripheral Development: The Case of Early 20th Century Romania
The article furthers the claim that many of the weaknesses of Marxist theory that constituted the starting point of critical approaches from Latin American dependency theory to world-systems analysis had been addressed in very similar terms as early as the 1900s. The focus is on intellectual debates in early twentieth-century Romania, especially as engendered by the theory of forms without substance as an alternative project of modernization for …
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory
The conversation between Ali Meghji and Manuela Boatcă focuses on how modernity/coloniality may (or may not) be a productive sociological concept in the remit of global social theory and wider political movements. Speaking from within different locations in the imperial core (England and Germany respectively), we discuss how the concept of modernity/coloniality has traveled over to our respective European contexts, and the ways it has informed ou…
The 'Not Quite' as a Form of Relationality
Creolization as Method
“What took place in the Caribbean,” writes Édouard Glissant, “which could be summed up in the word creolization, approximates the idea of Relation as nearly as possible.” 1 For Glissant, the word creolization condenses the history of the Caribbean. This is a history characterized by trans-border connections, culture flows, and the transregional movement of people and capital. 2 As the first region to be colonized by Europe in the sixteenth centur…
Reading sociological theory against its grain
Lendo a teoria sociológica a contrapelo
Neste artigo, analisamos a circulação de links desinformativos sobre a pandemia de Covid-19 no Twitter, a partir de um conjunto de 159.560 links coletados da API do Twitter entre os meses de março e julho de 2020. Através de um mapeamento da rede e da observação da vizinhança dos links e dos links mais compartilhados, observamos uma polarização e redução da circulação dos links de acordo com seu sentido (pró-hidroxicloroquina ou anti-hidroxicloro…
Global inequalities avant la lettre: Immanuel Wallerstein’s contribution
This article argues that Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-system approach was instrumental in revealing sociology’s theoretical and methodological blind spots and in formulating a comprehensive framework for the study of global inequalities. In doing so, it anticipated both the critique of Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism put forth by transnational and postcolonial approaches as well as the debates over the rise in global inequalities by s…
Staatsbürgerschaft, Gender und globale Ungleichheiten
The category gender has marked the institution of citizenship from the modern / colonial outset, and both citizenship and gender have been providing crucial factors for extreme inequalities between countries. In order to elaborate on this thesis, the article introduces a global and postcolonial perspective on citizenship and gender. In a second step, the article discusses »acts of citizenship« such as marriage, motherhood and sex tourism to subve…
Geschlecht — Gewalt — Gesellschaft
Geschlecht - Gewalt - Gesellschaft
Kulturcode Gewalt
Es heißt, die Geschichte wird von den Siegern geschrieben, doch wurde im westlichen Kulturkreis in den letzten zwanzig Jahren ein systematischer Umkehrprozess dieses Prinzips zunehmend erkennbar. Nicht Siegeszügen, sondern Leidenswegen galt immer mehr öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit und die „Versuchung der Unschuld“ (Bruckner 1995) — die Beanspruchung einer Opferstellung in individueller, sozialgruppenspezifischer oder weltpolitischer Hinsicht — wurde…
Peripheral Solutions to Peripheral Development: The Case of Early 20th Century Romania
The article furthers the claim that many of the weaknesses of Marxist theory that constituted the starting point of critical approaches from Latin American dependency theory to world-systems analysis had been addressed in very similar terms as early as the 1900s. The focus is on intellectual debates in early twentieth-century Romania, especially as engendered by the theory of forms without substance as an alternative project of modernization for …
Semiperipheries in the World-System: Reflecting Eastern European and Latin American Experiences
This paper claims that, since many of the concepts relevant to our analysis of systemic change were coined in and about the core, the potential with which solutions to world-systemic crisis are credited in the long run should be assessed differently depending on the structural location of their origin. In the periphery, such concepts as conservatism, socialism and even liberalism took forms that often retained nothing of the original model but th…
Knocking on Europe's Door: Romanian Academia between Communist Censorship and Western Neglect
Research Article| July 01 2006 Knocking on Europe's Door: Romanian Academia between Communist Censorship and Western Neglect Manuela Boatcă Manuela Boatcă Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (3): 551–579. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2005-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Manuela Boatcă; Knocking on Europe's Door: Rom…
Development: Political Economy
The emergence of the idea of development in western culture is closely linked to the evolutionary worldview that began to gain ground in Europe in the eighteenth century and has as such also been constitutive for sociology as a discipline. Like evolution, development has taken on a variety of meanings, the common denominator of which can be seen in the idea of continuous, orderly social change usually proceeding in several, clearly demarcated sta…
Helmut Thome und Christoph Birkel: Sozialer Wandel und Gewaltkriminalität. Deutschland, England und Schweden im Vergleich, 1950 bis 2000
The Eastern Margins of Empire: Coloniality in 19thCentury Romania
Equating modernization with Westernization has historically been one of the strategies with the help of which the development of entire world regions has been programmatically defined as “catching up with the West”. As a result, structural problems that accounted for incongruities with the postulated model in particular countries were explained (away) as economic, institutional or cultural lags to be overcome by faithful application of developmen…
Die zu Ende gedachte Moderne — Alternative Theoriekonzepte in den lateinamerikanischen und osteuropäischen Peripherien
Die Moderne ist zählbar geworden. Lange Zeit als einzigartiges abendländisches Phänomen betrachtet, dessen Entstehung einem historisch kontingenten Bündel von soziokulturellen Faktoren zu verdanken war, wird in der neueren theoretischen Diskussion zunehmend im Plural auf sie verwiesen. Dabei ist es unerheblich, ob von ihrer Vielfalt oder aber von ihrer Einheit, ob von unterschiedlichen Pfaden, Konfigurationen oder Ausprägungen einer im Grunde unt…
Macrosociology
As a subfield of sociological analysis and theory, macrosociology deals with large‐scale, long‐term social processes, phenomena, and structures, such as social change, stratification, or the capitalist world‐economy. Conceptually, macrosociology is a relational term, meant to distinguish the broad level of sociological analysis from that characterizing microsociology, which studies small‐scale units and individual relationships, like social roles…
Postkoloniale Soziologie: Ein Programm
Desigualdad social reconsiderada - descubriendo puntos ciegos a través de vistas desde abajo
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Latin America: Modernity, Globality, Critique
Grenzsetzende Macht: Geopolitische Strategien europäischer Identitätsbildung
La sociología poscolonial: Estado del arte y perspectivas
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Désoccidentaliser la sociologie. L'Europe au mirroir de la Chine
Rattraper le nouvel Occident: L'initiative d'excellence » allemande, les études régionales et la re-production des inégalités
In the wake of the recent university reforms, the new academic division of labor in Germany has subserviently followed the U.S.-model of creating a rift between research and teaching universities by establishing on the one hand so-called “elite universities” that benefit from considerable state funding and on the other hand trying to reduce the rest to pedagogical carbon copies of standard curricula that can only award bachelor‘s or at most maste…
Two-Way Street. Moderne(n), Verwobenheit und Kolonialität
Geschlecht -- Gewalt -- Gesellschaft
“From the Standpoint of Germanism”: A Postcolonial Critique of Weber's Theory of Race and Ethnicity
Sociological conceptualizations of capitalism, modernity, and economic development as due only to factors endogenous to Western Europe have been prominent targets of postcolonial criticism. Instead of an over-the-board condemnation of classical sociology as a whole or of the work of one classic in particular, the present article zooms in on Max Weber's theory of ethnicity from a postcolonial perspective in order to pinpoint the absences, blind sp…
Corpos e fronteiras: Uma conversa com Ella Shohat
Handbuch Entwicklungsforschung
Unequal and gendered: Notes on the coloniality of citizenship
An entire Occidentalist tradition of citizenship theory viewed citizenship as a modern, progressive institution that helped overcome particularities of unequal social origin. Contrary to the claims of this (mainly male) Western scholarly tradition, the article argues, first, that the institution of citizenship has developed in the West through the legal (and physical) exclusion of non-European, non-White and non-Western populations from civic, po…
Postkolonialismus und Dekolonialität
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