The lives and afterlives of the Dâmbovița

Between ghost and living river

Bibliographic Data

ID4464831
AuthorsCalin Cotoi (0000-0002-4309-7995), Alexandru Iorga (0000-0001-5340-6272), Ruxandra Păduraru (0000-0001-5893-0639, University of Bucharest), Andreea Ivașcu Georgescu
Year2025
Volume8
Issue4
Pages1447-1464
Publication date2025-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/25148486251350430
OpenAlexW4411616668
LanguageEN
References cited18

A postsocialist, neoliberal space of reform and innovation, of projects and plans for change, the Dâmbovița River is also a space of unbridgeable material and discursive-rhetorical fractures. The river emerges as the socialist anti-natural background for the new prospects of a capitalist re-naturalized entity: its 'deadness' necessary for the projected 'liveliness' of the future river. To understand the river as multiple we look at how it creates complex and uneven mediations between space and nature, and how environmental, political and economic transformations are intertwined with the river's history. By following the Dâmbovița-historically, theoretically and ethnographically-as it flows through Bucharest, we (re)discover it not just as a multi-layered entity, but also the ways in which it has been framed and shaped materially and semiotically

Archaeology · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Semiotics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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