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
Page: http://romaniacommons.wixsite.com/project