New article on the young Romanians' relationship with the communist past, by Remus Cretan & Claudia Doiciar. #Romania #postmemory #geography #communism tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

📣 New from #Identities, now online! 'Internal #migration and #stigmatization in the rural Banat region of #Romania' By @TomOB_NZ, Remus Cretan et al. @Routledge_Socio / Aaron Winter / @NasarMeer Available at ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/107028…

New on the #IdentitiesBlog!📣 'A little coldness exists': attitudes towards internal #migrants in #Romania' By @TomOB_NZ, Remus Cretan et al. , exploring internal #migration & #stigma as a tool of #community preservation @Routledge_Socio Read it here ➡️ identitiesjournal.com/blog-collectio…

Class: Imperial nostalgia packaged as objective cartography. Assignment: Which empire is being revived through this map? 🙄

Sometimes the stars align. Today I received the news that two of my academic articles submitted to good journals got major revisions.

My latest paper is now published online! It critically analyses the spatial development of peripheralisation in the case of smart city projects in Romania. Thanks Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Wiley Geography & Anthropology! #SmartCities #Romania #OpenAccess rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/147547…

📢 New paper published in #areajournal by Alexandru Dragan, Remus Cretan, and Raluca Denisa Bulzan (West University of Timişoara). 'The spatial development of peripheralisation: The case of smart city projects in Romania'. orlo.uk/j7D2D

🚨 New paper in #areajournal by Adriana Cioran Jupîneanţ, Remus Cretan, Sorina Voiculescu, and Claudia Doiciar (West University of Timişoara). 'COVID-19 crisis, Romanian Roma migrant women, and the temporary geographies of lockdown in the Spanish home'. orlo.uk/wedKh

Souvenir sellers as unconventional entrepreneurs, a paper based on a fruitful collaboration with Duncan Light Duncan Light, Anya Chapman and Cristina Lupu. Thanks Tourism Review , Emerald Insight emerald.com/insight/conten…

ꜤLiving with Bears in Prahova Valley, Romania: An Integrative Analysis’. A co-authored study based on a posthumanist approach in the tourist settlements of Romanian Carpathians. Thanks Animals ! mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/4…

7/ Next is 'The spatial development of peripheralisation: The case of smart city projects in Romania' by Alexandru Dragan et al. This paper presents new critical understandings of the spatial interrelationships of smart city development. doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

Happy to see that I finalized coordinating a new PhD thesis, this time co-supervized with Prof. PhD Mercedes A. Moscardo from UJI Castellon, Spain. Congrats to Adriana Jupineant who nicely defended her thesis on Romanian Roma migrant women from a peripheral feminism perspective!

Delighted to teach at uvt 🇷🇴, meeting lovely students and finally meeting Remus Cretan @sebastianjucu, thank you all and what a great place Timișoara 2023 is!!

6/ Next is ‘COVID-19 crisis, Romanian Roma migrant women, and the temporary geographies of lockdown in the Spanish home' by Adriana Cioran Jupîneanţ et al: This paper considers the living conditions for women under restricted pandemic circumstances. doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

Our second souvenir paper ('Souvenir practices of domestic tourists') is now published. Nice collaboration with my postdoc student Cristina Lupu, Duncan Light Duncan Light and Sorina Voiculescu. Thanks Current Issues in Tourism & Routledge Routledge Sport, Leisure, and Tourism! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My latest co-authored paper on vertical social mobility of poor urban Roma mothers is now published in journal Habitat International. Thanks Elsevier ! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What a special moment when such rad thinkers engage with one's work. Thank you to Antti Tarvainen Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn Remus Cretan and Sophia Maalsen for their generous engagement with my book. Duke University Press journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

"Techno-capitalism and inequality: Silicon Valley's global influence" by Remus Cretan journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our new paper is published! We investigate how processes of post-socialist reform have unfolded in Băile Herculane, a traditional Romanian spa, and how this reform radically disrupted Herculane's development path. Duncan Light . Thanks Tourism Geographies Routledge Sport, Leisure, and Tourism

Nice to see this paper published in a top journal. Great collaboration with Adelina Tuta, Alexandru Dragan and Melinda Dinca. #tacticalurbanism #schools. Thanks Springer Nature ! rdcu.be/euiZA