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- Title
The Making of a National Park: Ruins of Nature and History in Northern Dobrudja.
- Authors
Cotoi, Calin
- Abstract
After 1990, nature conservation areas multiplied all over Central and Eastern Europe. National parks came into being as part of a dramatically changing society, economy, and culture. Scholarly efforts to understand national parks rely either on arguments about the social construction of nature or on political ecology. In this article, I attempt to point to the analytical potential of the literature on ruins for expanding studies carried out in both theoretical traditions. I draw from fieldwork in nature conservation areas in southeastern Romania to explore how actors gain access to critical discourses and complex ways of narrating and enrolling the landscapes. The mechanisms that counterpoise safeguarding and development are analyzed as parts of a longue durée articulation of ruination and modernization.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; NATIONAL parks &; reserves; SUSTAINABLE development; HISTORY of forestry; POLITICAL ecology; HISTORY
- Publication
East European Politics & Societies, 2017, Vol 31, Issue 3, p596
- ISSN
0888-3254
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0888325417703185