The Exceptionalism of Housing in the Ideology and Politics of Early Communist Romania (1945–1965)

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ID12299339
AutoresMihaela Serban (0000-0002-3853-5612, College of New Jersey, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume67
Fascículo3
Páginas443-467
Data de publicação2015-03-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEurope Asia Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0966-8136 • E-ISSN: 1465-3427
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09668136.2015.1019429
OpenAlexW2086223622
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas22

The article analyses the exceptionalism of housing during the early communist period in Romania, in particular the extent to which the regime's ambivalent policies regarding housing undermined the overall political and ideological goal of dismantling private property. Focusing on appropriations, restitutions and new construction in the city of Timi ̧oara and the surrounding region, the article emphasises conflicting and inconsistent policies regarding housing and the consequences of these policies. Housing's double meaning as home and asset further complicated the overall ideological mission of denaturalising bourgeois private property, and provided a basis for the continuing relevance of pre-communist legal ideologies and consciousness of property rights during this period. The article is based on documentary and archival research conducted in the city of Timi ̧oara, Romania, in 2007–2008

Bourgeoisie · Communism · Exceptionalism · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private property · Property rights · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urbanization and City Planning