Abstract: In her study "Crossing the Borders of Cultures: the First Wave of American War Correspondents in Romania. The Transylvanian Case", Carmen Andraş focuses on American war correspondents’ representations about Romania between 1916 and the early 1930s. Methodologically, the author deploys the respective analysis in the framework of travel studies and imagology. Carmen Andraş identifies two waves of 20th century American correspondents who travelled to Romania. The respective paper concentrates on the first wave, beginning with World War I, when most of the American reporters were coming from Russia and continuing until the early 1930s, when the installation of dictatorship and political right wing extremism was now obvious in Romania. In the author’s opinion, the second wave of American correspondents coming to Romania, started in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was much more representative, both in quantity and quality. Generally, the American interests in Romania in the circumstances of world wars were military and diplomatic, economic, and political. Generally, the American war correspondents paved the way for a better knowledge and understanding of Romania in the USA.
Keywords: Border Studies, War Studies, Political History, Imagology, Cultural and Intellectual History, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Travel Studies Suggested Citation: [Chicago] Andraș, Carmen. 2016. “Crossing the Borders of Cultures: The First Wave of American War Correspondents in Romania and the Transylvanian Case (1916-Early 1930s).” In Crossing Borders: Insights into the Cultural and Intellectual History of Transylvania (1848-1948), edited by Carmen Andraș and Cornel Sigmirean, 199–232. Documente, Istorie, Mărturii. Cluj-Napoca: Argonaut & Gatineau, Canada, Symphologic Publishing. Download the PDF on Academia Edu.
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De la cosmetologie la cosmiatrie: Aurel Voina și manipularea istoriei personale (Cosmetology to Cosmiatry: Aurel Voina and the Manipulation of Personal History)
Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism Published by: Editura Academiei Române Keywords: cosmetology; cosmiatry; Aurel Voina; eugenics; interwar; Communism; Romania; Summary/Abstract: This paper explores the methodological and discursive transition in Aurel Voina’s theoretical conceptualisation of cosmetic science. The primary focus is the rewriting of personal and professional identity, assessing how Aurel Voina negotiated his conceptual and practical expertise from his role as eugenics ideologue and policy maker in the interwar era, to a much more marginal position as medical professional in Communist Romania. The aim is to identify common elements and identify how deep did the historical manipulation protrude. This paper thus offers a closer view of political changes determining calibrations in physical and conceptual self-representation, considering concepts of fluid identity and manipulation of memory. Keywords: cosmetology, cosmiatry, Aurel Voina, eugenics, interwar, Communism, Romania Suggested Citation: Andraș, Sonia D. 2021. “De la cosmetologie la cosmiatrie: Aurel Voina și manipularea istoriei personale.” Anuarul Institutului de Istorie »George Barițiu« - Series HISTORICA, HISTORICA, , no. 60: 393–402. Read/Download the full PDF paper by clicking this link. Article page on CEEOL: CEEOL - Article Detail Full contents of Anuarul Institutului de Istorie »George Bariţiu« - Series HISTORICA (Yearbook of the Institute of History »George Bariţiu« - Series HISTORICA), issue LX/2021: CEEOL - Journal Detail LOCATION, DISLOCATION AND RE-LOCATION: INTERCULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ACROSS POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BORDERS
Carmen Andraș, Scientific Researcher, PhD., “Gheorghe Șincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu Mureș Abstract: The paper focuses on significant interpretations of the border concept in the interdisciplinary framework of border, travel and cultural studies, with reference to a particular case of a Transylvanian’s migration to the United States in the first decades of the 20th century. The theoretical foundation of the paper lies in the definition of: porosity as a main characteristic of border (Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Bruno Dupeyron, “Borders, Borderlands, and Porosity”, 2007); Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of “fluid modernity” adapted to border analysis to scrutinize their shift of significance from “solid” markers of difference to “fluid” symbols of unity and communication (Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity, 2006). In connection to the concept of border, I will further define the concepts of location, dis-location and re-location in the specific situation of the travel and migration across international borders, which reflect a characteristic of modernity: the individual’s freedom of mobility beyond political borders initially meant to separate people and nations. I will apply the above mentioned concepts and methodologies to outline the stages of political, economic, cultural and identity border crossing in Ioan Blendea’s case (Din Ardeal in America. 35 de ani in Statele Unite/From Transylvania to America. 35 Years in the United States, published at Sibiu in 1945). He is a representative of a noteworthy phenomenon in Transylvania’s cultural, social and economic history: the migration of a large part of the rural population to the United States at the crossing of the 19- 20th centuries. The principal reason for this voluntary dis-placement (dis-location) was economic: it was the American mirage of prosperity in an era of industrial development and establishment of the bourgeois ideals of wealth, which attracted the Transylvanian villagers. Their place of birth was an almost pre-modern society, still suffocated between the borders of a dying empire. Temporally, Transylvania symbolized the past; spatially, it represented the place of birth, family and traditions. America was instead the place of future emancipation and fortune. However well adapted to a new American identity pattern, their dream was to come back to their original place and bring along their fortune for the benefit of their families. It was thus the story of an original location, followed by a process of dis-location and a final re-location, all due to the “fluidity” of a promising modernity. Keywords: borders, migration, travel, intercultural mobility, dis-location, re-location Read/Download the full PDF (Open Access) by clicking this link. Suggested Citation: Carmen Andraș, "Location, Dislocation and Re-Location: Intercultural and International Communication across Political and Economic Borders," in Iulian Boldea (editor), Globalization and Intercultural Dialogue. Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Secțiunea Political Sciences, Târgu-Mureș, Arhipelag XXI, Vol 1, 2014, pp. 91-104. ISBN 978-606-93691-3-5 Link to the volume contents: GIDNI - GIDNI-01/vol01-Pol (upm.ro) |
The Ethos of Dialogue and Education
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