Liviu Chelcea

Contact: liviu.chelcea@sas.unibuc.ro 

PhD, University of Michigan, Anthropology, 2004
MA, University of Michigan, Anthropology, 2011
MA, Central European University, History, 1998
BA, University of Bucharest, Sociology, 1997
Non-degree: Bard College, NY, 1994-1995

Fields of interest: ethnographic approaches to consumption, urban studies, kinship and houses

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

2003, Ancestors,  Domestic  Groups  and  the  Socialist  State:  Housing  Nationalization  and  Restitution  in  Romania.  Comparative  Studies  in  Society  and  History.  45(4):714‐740.

2002,The  Culture  of  Shortage  during  Socialism:  Goods,  Strategies  and  Consumption  Practices  in  a  Romanian  Village.  Cultural  Studies.  Vol.  16(1):16-43.  

2011, The “Housing Question” and the State-Socialist Answer:  City, Class and State Remaking in 1950s Bucharest, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

2002,  Mixed  Times:  On  Informal  Credit  in  Oltenia  (w/ Puiu  Lăţea).  Romanian  Journal  of  Society  and  Politics.  Vol.  2(1), 82‐106. 

Books

2008, Bucureştiul postindustrial [Postindustrial Bucharest], Polirom.
2000 România  Profundă în  Comunism. [Inner Romania during Communism]. Bucureşti:  Nemira. (together with Puiu Latea).

Edited volumes

2009, Diagnoza sectorului cultural. Polirom (w/ Anda Becuţ). 
2007  Sectorul cultural din România. Polirom (w/ Lucian Dobraca).
2004  Economia  informală după 1989. Paidea  (w/ Oana  Mateescu).

Articles in edited volumes

2009, Here in Reviga, There Was Nobody to Wage the Class Struggle”: Collectivization in Reviga, Bărăgan Plain (Bucharest Region). In Transforming Peasants, Property and Power. The collectivization of agriculture in Romania, 1949–1962. Budapest: Central European University Press.

2007, Dezindustrializare, reconversie urbană şi resemnificare [Deindustrialization, Urban Conversion and New Meanings]. In Bonciocat, Serban, Kombinat: Ruine ale Epocii de Aur. Bucureşti: Igloo, pp. 140-146.  

2006, Marginal Groups in Central Places: Gentrification and New Symbolic Geographies of Bucharest. In Goagea, Constantin et al (ed.) Remix: Fragments of a Country (Catalogul Romaniei la cea de-a 10-a Bienală de arhitectură de la Veneţia), pp 84-95.

2006, Cultură şi dezvoltare: Perspectiva antropologiei culturale. In Cătălin Zamfir and Laura Stoica (ed.). O nouă provocare: Dezvoltarea Socială. Iasi: Polirom.

2006, Gentrification, Property Rights and Post-socialist Primitive Accumulation (Bucharest, Romania). In György Enyedi and Zoltán Kovács (eds.), Social Changes and Social Sustainability in Historical Urban Centres: The Case of Central Europe. Pecs: Centre for Regional Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Pp. 127-126.

2003, Transition and ’Combinations’: On informal Credit in Rural Romania (w/ Puiu Lǎţea). In Anǎstǎsoaie, Viorel et al (eds.), Breaking the Wall: Representing Anthropology and Anthropological Representations in Post-communist Eastern Europe. Cluj: Editura Fundaţiei pentru Studii Europene, pp. 123-150.

1999, Nationalism  and  Regionalism  in  Banat:  Competition  for  Resources,  Elites and  Cultural  Discourses  during  the  Interwar  Period.  In  The  Garden  and  the  Workshop:  Rewriting  Cultural  History  in  Central  Europe,  Marius  Turda  (ed.),  Europa Institute  Press,  Budapest.  ISBN 10 9630365227.

Other assignments:

Editor-in-chief, International Review of Social Research

President. Romanian Society for Cultural Anthropology

Managing director, Center for Research and Consultancy on Culture