Our new study is about memory activism and emotions of the 1989 Romanian Revolution. We examine how the shift from collective euphoria to post-revolutionary disillusionment has shaped participants' memory activism for social justice. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our paper on street (re)naming practices and spatial ethnolinguistic contact is now published in journal GeoHumanities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New in The GJ: 'Computational analysis of contested monuments and collective memory in a multiethnic city' by Alexandru-Sabin Nicula et al. This paper analyses how 4 monuments in Cluj-Napoca reflect Romanian-Hungarian relations & the negotiation of collective memory. doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

Together with my postdoctoral student Sabin Nicula and two other colleagues, we are proud to see published our article. Using multi-stage computational methods, we analyze how urban monuments become spaces for negotiating collective memory. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the recent paper ('On the slow train: tourists’ experiences of deceleration') published in journal Mobilities we explored travel experiences on the Oravita-Anina train. Nice collaboration with Alexandru Dragan and Duncan Light www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My paper published today in journal Population, Space and Place has the title: 'Wounded Place‐Based Memories in Romania: Towards Social Justice for the Deportees in the Bărăgan Area'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My latest paper investigates how processes of post-socialist reform have unfolded in Băile Herculane, a Romanian spa, and how this reform radically disrupted Herculane's development path. Thanks @tourismgeographies.bsky.social

"Techno-capitalism and inequality: Silicon Valley's global influence" by @remustim123.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What a special moment when such rad thinkers engage with one's work. Thank you to Antti Tarvainen, @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @remustim123.bsky.social and @maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social for their generous engagement with my book. @dukepress.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Happy to see that my latest co-authored paper on vertical social mobility of poor urban Roma mothers is published in journal Habitat International. Thanks Elsevier @elsevierconnect.bsky.social ! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...