Section: Research Student Profiles

Cerasela Radu

Name
Cerasela Radu
Organisation
Sociology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Room 6.15 Chrystal Macmillan Building Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
E-Mail
URL
http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/research_students/radu_cerasela
Cerasela Radu

PhD Title

Modernity without Modernization: Historical Geographies of Power among the Roma in Romania


PhD supervisors: Dr. Angus Bancroft and Dr. Jonathan Hearn

 

Education and qualifications

2006-2007 MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, (accredited by the New York State University, USA).

2002–2004 MA in Social Anthropology and Community Development, The National School of Political and Administrative Sciences, Bucharest. 

2002–2004 MA in Communication and Public Opinion, The University of Bucharest. 
 1998-2002 BA in Sociology, The University of Bucharest. 

 Awards: College of Humanities Studentship

 Research topics and fields of interest

Roma communities, Power and space; Religion and self reflexivity,Govermentality and citizenship,Political and economicsociology

Cultural and social geography, Critical theory, poststructuralism and phenomenology

 

In my Phd research I develop a new analytical framework for studying power by looking at Roma spatial and historical relations with significant Others (state, economic and political actors etc.) within and across multiple and overlapping spaces of power (politics, economy, religion, state). The study brings altogether postructuralist and neomarxist approaches, history and geography, time and space in a new concept : Historical Geographies of Power.

 

Articles under review in peer-review journals 2011-2012

Voyagers of the smooth space navigating emotional landscapes:Gypsy street paddlers in Scotland.  Submitted to Space, Emotion and Society- under review

To whom God speaks ? Struggles for individual authority through self-reflexivity and performativity within a Gypsy Pentecostal church. Sociological Research Online- accepted for publication

Publications 2003-2009

a. Journal articles (items marked with * were peer-reviewed)

* Voiculescu Cerasela
2008 Disappearing peasants? On land, rent, and revenue in post-1989 Romania. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 52: 77-91. (Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford)

Voiculescu, Cerasela

2006 Regimuri de arendã ºi forme de schimb: o analizã a fermelor agricole [Rent regimes and forms of exchange: an analysis of agricultural farms]. Sociologie Româneascã III(4): 140-159 (in Romanian).                                                                                  

* Voiculescu, Cerasela
2005 Production and consumption of pop-folk music in post-socialist Romania: discourse and practice. Ethnologia Balkanica: Journal of Balkan Ethnology 9: 261-283. (Waxmann Verlag: Munchen)

Voiculescu, Cerasela
2003 Identity Formation for Sângeorgiu de Mureº Roma Population. Romanian Sociology (Annual English Electronic Edition) 4: 83-115. http://www.sociologieromaneasca.ro/eng/aeee-pdf/sr-rs.aeee.2002.3.pdf

 

b. Book chapters 


Voiculescu, Cerasela
2008 Confronting expert knowledge and local experience: Peasants and farm directors facing EU regulations. In Roth, Klaus (ed.) Europaisierung von unten? Beobachtungen zur EU-Integration Sudosteuropas, pp. 97-113. Forost Arbeitspapiere Nr. 44, Munchen.

Voiculescu, Cerasela
2007 Egy cigány–paraszt társadalmi és gazdasági rendszer: reciprocitás és túlélési viszonyok egy erdélyi faluban [A Gypsy-peasant Socio-economic System: Reciprocity and Survival Relations in a Village of Transylvania]. In Ilyés, Sándor, Pozsony, Ferenc (szerk./ed.) Lokalitások, határok, találkozások. Tanulmányok erdélyi cigány közösségekrõl, pp. 67-79. Kolozsvár: Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság. (in Hungarian)

Voiculescu, Cerasela
2007 Agricultural Farm Management between Regional Markets and Local Communities: Networks of Production and Distribution in South Romania. In Roth, Klaus (ed.) Sozialkapital – Vertrauen – Rechtssicherheit. Postsozialistische Gesellschaften und die Europaische Union (Social Capital – Trust – Rule of Law. Postsocialist Societies and the European Union), pp. 141-163. Berlin: LIT-Verlag.

Voiculescu, Cerasela
2004 Challenging Cultural Diversity. An Analysis of Social and Economic Relationships between Roma and Hungarians in a Transylvanian Village. In S. Frunzã, N. Gavriluþã, MS. Jones (eds.) The Challenges of Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe, pp. 200-213. Cluj-Napoca: Provopress.

Voiculescu, Cerasela
2004 Temporary Migration of Transylvanian Roma to Hungary. In D. Pop (ed.) New Patterns of Labour Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, pp. 145 - 164. Cluj- Napoca: AMM Design. http://www.cenpo.ro/files/10%20Migration.pdf

 

Seminar Lecture 2011: The historical politics and geography of Roma leadership in socialist and postsocialist Romania, West Coast Seminar Series, Central and East European Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK, 16 November.

 

Teaching experience:

 2010-20012  Tutor for the undergraduate courses  “ Social and Political Theory“ , “ Self and Society”, “Social and Political Enquiry”, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh

2004-2005  Tutor for the postgraduate courses -“Social Stratification and Lifestyles”, “Community Development”. Master programme Anthropology and Community Development, Department of Sociology ,   University of Bucharest.

  Research grant director
2006-2007 GDN – RRC VI -12 Corporate Farming in Central and Southern Romania: Practices, Ideologies and Power Relations, Global Development Network (GDN-CERGE-EI), Prague, Czech Republic
 
2006-2007 Agricultural enterprises between regional markets and local communities: networks of production and distribution in South Romania, Ministry of Education and Research (CNCSIS), Bucharest, Romania [Awarded the second best project position, as a result of a nation-wide social science competition] 

 

Field research areas

Romania,United Kingdom, Hungary ,Serbia  

 

 NOTE: Between 2004 and 2006 I have been a permanently employed researcher at the Research Institute for the Quality of Life, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest. 1999- 2004 I have worked as a research assistant for various Romanian research institutions and NGOs. After 2006 I have worked as a principal investigator in various national and international research grants. My research has mainly been focused on various aspects of the Roma/Gypsy Travellers in Romania, Hungary and United Kingdom.

 

This page was published on 18 January 2012


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