Post-industrial “myths” as truth [Ioana Florea]

The dominant capitalist discourses have insisted in the last three decades that the socialist economies have crumbled on their own, due to inefficient industrial production and distribution capacities. The strongest counter-narratives to this view were the workers stories and memories – but they were often disqualified by the dominant actors and information channels/platforms as “myths”. …

Collective volume @ Routledge

Free download – Chapter 3. De-risking in a context of uneven development and deindustrialized spaces. The advancement and financialization of real estate as business in Romania, by Ioana Florea and Enikő Vincze Book and e-book, accessible for purchase here: Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and FinancializationEdited By Enikő Vincze, Ioana …

“Why invest in Romania?” Investment strategies and state interventions advancing real estate development in semipheripheries

Talk by Prof. Enikő Vincze, housing justice activist at Căși sociale ACUM!/Social housing NOW! in Cluj, Romania, given within the seminar series organized by the Torino-based Beyond Inhabitation Lab project A synopsis based on the recorded presentation of 21.03.2024 and the PowerPoint presentation prepared for the talk. The talk was inspired by the results of …

Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization [Edited by Enikő Vincze, Ioana Florea and Manuel B. Aalbers ]

This is the collective English language volume realized by the team of the REDURB project as its major outcome to be published at Routledge according to the contract signed with this publishing house. The central objective of our book is twofold. On the one hand, we analyze the conditions of possibility for the emergence and …

Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context [Enikő Vincze]

The article was published and can be downloaded from the journal Studia UBB Sociologia in an Open Access regime, 2023, Vol 68, issue 1, 25-73. The article examines how deindustrialization as economic restructuring and housing regime changes evolved interconnectedly in Romania during the Great Transformation from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. This article also explores …

Trends of institutional residential investments in a “super-homeownership” country [Enikő Vincze and Ioana Florea ]

Working paper presented at the EURS Seminar and Special Issue Institutional Investment in Urban Housing Markets: Global Trends, Local Manifestations and the State, 22-23 November 2023, Brussels This article illustrates how institutional investors in real estate advanced in the context of a “super-homeownership” country, as Romania and other parts of Eastern Europe have been called …