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Stefan Dorondel is a senior researcher at the Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Bucharest, and affiliated with the Institute for Southeast European Studies at the Romanian Academy. Stefan holds a Ph.D. in history and ethnology from the Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu (Romania) and a Ph.D. in rural studies from Humboldt University Berlin. He is an anthropologist and environmental historian interested in the environmental transformation of postsocialist countries. His monograph Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania explores the many ways socialist and postsocialist policies of land reform disrupted humans, animals, rivers, and forests. With Thomas Sikor, Johannes Stahl, and Phuc Xuan To, he also co-authored the monograph When Things Become Property: Land Reform, Authority, and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia, published within the Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy (Berghahn, 2017). Stefan’s work has been published in journals such as Development and Change, Citizenship Studies, Social Analysis, Environment and History, Canadian Journal of Development Studies and Ethnologia Balkanica, and as book chapters though Routledge. His co-authored edited volume (with Stelu Serban) Planners, Experts, Bureaucrats: The Transformation of Economy and Nature in European Peripheries is under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is currently at work on a book tentatively titled Global Nature, Multispecies Approaches and the Ecological Restoration of the Danube. The book analyses the movement of ideas about nature, technologies, solutions, and nature experts at global level and highlights the way in which these complex processes influenced ecological restoration along the lower Danube.
RCC Research Project: Global Nature, Multispecies Approaches, and the Ecological Restoration of the Danube.
Selected Publications:
- with Stelu Serban. "Healing Waters: Infrastructure and the Capitalist Phantasies in the Socialist Ruins of Rural Bulgaria." Canadian Journal of Development Studies 41, no.1 (2020): 127-143.
- with Stelu Serban. "Dissuading the State: Food Security, Peasant Resistance and Environmental Concerns in Rural Bulgaria." Canadian Journal of Development Studies 40, no. 4 (2019): 564-579.
- with Stelu Serban and D. Cain. "The Play of Islands: Emerging Borders and Danube Dynamics in Modern Southeast Europe (1830-1900)." Environment and History 25, no. 4 (2019): 521-547.
- with Veronica Mitroi. "Nature, State and Conservation in the Danube Delta: Turning Fishermen Into Outlaws." In The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation, edited by W. von Hardenberg, C. Leal, M. Kelly, and E. Wakild, 194-212. Routledge: London and New York, 2017.
- with Thomas Sikor, Johannes Stahl and Phuc Xuan To. When Things Become Property: Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia. Berghahn Books: Oxford and New York, 2017.
- Disrupted Landscapes. State, Peasants, and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania. Berghahn Books: Oxford and New York, 2016.