"I brought back enduring connections with colleagues and friends and a resolve to return to reconnect and continue to explore the hidden corners of Romania and maybe find my own special spot in a secluded 'sat.'"
Whose Nature Is It?
An article by Fulbright researcher George Andrei has been published in volume 16, issue no. 2 of the French area studies journal Balkanologie. In the article, George investigates the incorporation of Transylvania into Romania after the First World War by looking at how forest regulation and land reform created differing ideas of rural administration and development. Described by the issue’s editors as a combination of “classical historical research techniques” with “a problematization stemming from postcolonial studies,” the article uses innovative lenses and underutilized historical documents to paint a unique image of political and economic modernization in interwar Romania from an environmental perspective. The latest issue of Balkanologie is open source and available at https://journals.openedition.org/balkanologie/.