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Biography

I have a Ph.D. in History and Ethnology at the University Lucian Blaga Sibiu and a Ph.D. at the Humboldt University Berlin. I was awarded several postdoctoral or research fellowships at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle, University of Regensburg, Rachel Carson Center of the LMU Munich, University of Cambridge, University of Jena (in 2019) and New Europe College Institute for Advanced Studies Bucharest. I published articles in peer-review journals such as Development and Change, Social Analysis, Citizenship Studies, Environment and History, Canadian Journal of Development Studies etc. I have published several books, two of them being published by Berghahn Books (Oxford & New York).

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Employment (3)

Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest : Bucharest, RO

2000-01-01 to present | Senior Researcher (Sociocultural Anthropology)
Employment
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Stefan Dorondel

Institute for Southeast European Studies : Bucharest, RO

1999-03-01 to present | Researcher (Sociocultural anthropology of Eastern Europe)
Employment
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Stefan Dorondel

Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania : Bucharest, RO

1996-03-01 to 1999-12-31 | Ethnographer (Curatorship)
Employment
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Stefan Dorondel

Education and qualifications (4)

Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2003-09-15 to 2007-11-02 | Ph.D. (Wirtschft und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus)
Education
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Stefan Dorondel

Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu: Sibiu, RO

1997-11-01 to 2004-04-24 | Ph.D. (Faculty of History and Anthropology)
Education
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Stefan Dorondel

Université Libre de Bruxelles Institut de Sociologie: Bruxelles, BE

2001-08-15 to 2002-09-02 | MA (Sociocultural Anthropology)
Education
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Stefan Dorondel

Universitatea 1 Decembrie 1918 Alba Iulia: Alba Iulia, RO

1991-10-01 to 1996-07-01 | BA (Faculty of History and Archaeology)
Education
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Stefan Dorondel

Professional activities (6)

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society: Munchen, Bayern, DE

2020-09-01 to 2021-04-30 | Carson Fellow
Invited position
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Stefan Dorondel

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Jena, Thüringen, DE

2019-06-01 to 2019-12-31 | Fellow (Imre Kertesz Kolleg)
Invited position
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Stefan Dorondel

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2012-09-01 to 2012-12-15 | Fellow (CRASSH)
Invited position
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Stefan Dorondel

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology: Halle, DE

2009-02-09 to 2012-09-01 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Anthropology and Law)
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Stefan Dorondel

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen: Munchen, Bayern, DE

2010-06-01 to 2010-12-31 | International Fellow (Rachel Carson Center)
Invited position
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Stefan Dorondel

Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

2005-01-06 to 2005-07-31 | Visiting Researcher (The Agrarian Studies Program)
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Stefan Dorondel

Funding (2)

State, Communities and Nature of the Lower Danube Islands: An Environmental History (1830-2020)

2021-01 to 2023-12 | Grant
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (Bucharest, Bucharest area, RO)
GRANT_NUMBER: PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-1238
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Stefan Dorondel

Taming Postsocialist Nature. Floods, Local Strategies, and National Policies on the Lower Danube

2013-09 to 2016-12 | Contract
Romanian National Research Agency (Bucharest, RO)
URL: http://www.politicalecology.ro
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Stefan Dorondel

Works (42)

Local fishermen knowledge and scientific expertise in Eastern Europe and West Africa

2023-12-06 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003189350-23
Contributors: Stefan Dorondel; Veronica Mitroi-Tisseyre; Youssoupha Tall
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Infrastructure, feral waters and power relations in rural Romania

Critique of Anthropology
2022-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X221095935
Contributors: Stefan Dorondel; Cristina Posner
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Infrastructure, Feral Waters and Power relations in Rural Romania

Critique of Anthropology
2022-06-05 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Climate Change Perception in Romania
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Stefan Dorondel

A New Ecological Order

The Pittsburgh University Press
2022-04-08 | Book
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Stefan Dorondel

Reinventing Land Mortgage in Postsocialist Europe

Land and the Mortgage. History, Culture, Belonging
2022-02-01 | Book chapter
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Stefan Dorondel

Ecological Restoration in “Liquid Societies”.

Nature and Culture
2021-07-01 | Journal article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2020.160205
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Stefan Dorondel

Opening a technical field

Global Environment
2021-02-05 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Healing waters: infrastructure and capitalist fantasies in the socialist ruins of rural Bulgaria

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement
2020-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2019.1632176
Contributors: Stefan Dorondel; Stelu Şerban
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Post-socialist smallholders: silence, resistance and alternatives

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement
2019-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2019.1688649
Contributors: Oane Visser; Stefan Dorondel; Petr Jehlička; Max Spoor
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Environmental History in Romania:

Environment and History
2019-05-01 | Journal article
OTHER-ID: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/eh/2019/00000025/00000002/art00012
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Stefan Dorondel

Dissuading the state:

Canadian Journal of Development Studies
2018-08-19 | Journal article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2018.1498326
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Stefan Dorondel
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The Play of Islands:

Environment and History
2018-07-15 | Journal article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3197/096734018X15254461646413
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Stefan Dorondel
grade
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When things Become Property

Berghahn Books
2017-04-17 | Book
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-1785335587
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Stefan Dorondel

Disrupted Landscapes

Berghahn Books
2016-03-19 | Book
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-1785331206
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Stefan Dorondel

Shifting Frames: Social Anthropology in Romania after 1990

Ethnologia Balkanica
2014-12-19 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Workings of the State: Lists, the European Union Food Aid, and Local Practices of Distribution in Rural Romania

Social Analysis
2014-12-04 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

A Missing Link: The Agrarian Question in Southeast Europe

At the Margins of History. The Agrarian Question in Southeast Europe
2014-11-17 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

At the Margins of History

Martor
2014-11-17 | Edited book
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Stefan Dorondel

Schimbare culturală şi semnificaţii sociale la populaţia rurală din Maramureş

Studii şi Coumunicări de Etnologie
2013 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Environmental Anthropologist-cum-Environmental Historian: Listening to the Mermaids

2013-08-19 | Book chapter
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Stefan Dorondel

A. Mungiu-Pippidi, A Tale of Two Villages. Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside

Sűdosteuropa
2012 | Book review
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Stefan Dorondel

Fields and Forests: Ethnographic Perspectives on Environmental Globalization

RCC Perspectives
2012-10-17 | Edited book
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Stefan Dorondel

Neoliberal Transformations of the Romanian Agrarian Landscape

RCC Perspectives
2012-10-02 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Of Fields and Forests: The Contested Environments of Agrarian Change and Forest Conservation

RCC Perspectives
2012-10-02 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Contesting Pasts: Property Negotiation and Land Reform in a Romanian Village

New Europe College Yearbook
2011 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Tenure rights, environmental interests, and the politics of local government in Romania

T. Sikor, J. Stahl (Eds.), Forests and People: Property, Governance, and Human Rights
2011 | Book chapter
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Stefan Dorondel

‘The Sleep Has Been Rubbed from Their Eyes’: Social Citizenship and the Reproduction of Local Hierarchies in Rural Hungary and Romania

Citizenship Studies
2011-08-19 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Private Property: From Postsocialism to Neoliberalism?

Annuaire Roumain d’Anthropologie
2009 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Review of The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies. Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition, Routledge, London, 2008

Journal of Peasant Studies
2009 | Book review
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Stefan Dorondel

The Institutionalization of Property Rights in Albanian and Romanian Biodiversity Conservation

Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology
2009 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

They should be killed’: forest restitution, ethnic groups, and patronage in postsocialist Romania

2009 | Book chapter
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Stefan Dorondel

Transparence de l'administration foncière en Albanie et en Roumanie

Options Méditerranéennes
2009 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Private Property: Postsocialist Promises and Experiences

Annuaire Roumain d'Anthropologie
2009-08-18 | Edited book
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Stefan Dorondel

Property, Access, and State Legitimacy: Emergent Political Orders in Albanian and Romanian Forests

Development and Change
2009-01-12 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Ethnicity, State, and Natural Resources in the Southeastern Europe. The Rudari Case

2007 | Book chapter
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Stefan Dorondel

The ‘Voices’ of the Romanian Integration into EU: Land and Environmental Practices in a Village from Dobroudja

The Anthropology of East Europe Review
2005 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Between East and West.

2005-11-01 | Edited book
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Stefan Dorondel

L’histoire orale entre document et récit. Continuité et changement dans la société rurale de Roumanie

2004 | Book chapter
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Stefan Dorondel

Moartea şi apa. Ritualuri funerare, simbolism acvatic şi structura lumii de dincolo în imaginarul ţărănesc

2004-12-17 | Book
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Stefan Dorondel

Orthodoxy, Nationalism and Local Identities: a Romanian Case Study

Ethnologia Balkanica
2002 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

The Oral History of an Interethnic and Inter-confessional Village. The Migration Legends

Revue des études sud-est Européennes
2000 | Journal article
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Stefan Dorondel

Peer review (2 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Journal of environmental studies and sciences. (1)
Review activity for Water history. (1)
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