George-Adrian Iordachescu

George Iordachescu is a social anthropologist interested in political ecology and construction&protection of natural heritage.

Education
      MA in Social Anthropology, Specialization in Urban and Global Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest – Hungary // Thesis: “Inventing Traditions for Whom? Commodification of Authenticity and Failed Rural Development in Capitalist Romania” under the supervision of Prof. Don Kalb and Prof. Jean-Louis Fabiani (2014)

    BA in History, Department of History, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj - Romania // Thesis: „Foreign Debt and the Modern World-System: Romanian Economic Growth and Indebtedness in the 1970s” under the supervision of Prof. Virgiliu Tarau (2013)

    BA in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj - Romania // Thesis: "The Present Past: Work, Hybrid Economic Strategies and Livelihoods of Muscel Miners in Postsocialism” under the supervision of Prof. Irina Culic (2012)

PhD Research Topic: "Wilderness Production in the Romanian Carpathians: Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal conservation and its impact on forest livelihoods."

 

Research Themes
Political Ecology
Green Grabbing & Green Colonialism
Protected Areas & Biodiversity Conservation
Anthropocene Theory
Geo-engineering

Biocapitalism
Post-Socialist Environments

Commons
Associative Governance of Landscape
Rural History and Development

Critical Heritage Studies
Ecotourism
Landscape Studies
Micromuseology
Authenticity Studies

Research Regions
Eastern Europe
Romania
Carpathians
Transylvania

Member of: 
LYNX - Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Image
ESEH - European Society for Environmental History
EASA - European Association of Social Anthropologists
IASC - International Association for the Study of Commons

POLLEN - Political Ecology Network

FLARE - Forests and Livelihood, Assesment, Research, Engagement
EURHO - European Rural History Organization

Centre for the Study of Modernity and Rural World


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