Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848-1914: Networks and Laboratories of Knowledge (Balkan Studies Library)

Blick ins Buch In Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848–1914, Călin Cotoi brings to life several ‘obscure'anarchists, physicians, public hygienists and reformers roaming the borderlands of Europe and Russia.The book follows individuals, texts, projects, sometimes even bacteria, traveling, meeting, colliding, writing and talking to each other in surprising places, and on changing topics. All of them navigated the land, sometimes finding unexpected loopholes and shortcuts in it, and emerged in different and unexpected parts of the social, political or geographical space.Using materials ranging from anarchists'letters, to social-theoretical debates and medical treatises, Călin Cotoi points to the larger theoretical and historical issues involved in the local creation of the social, its historicity, and its representability. Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Dramatis Personae Introduction Part I Chapter 1 ‘The Land is the Country’: Romanian Revolutionaries, the ‘Specter of Communism’, and the ‘Terrible Specter’ of Russia Chapter 2 Nicolae Codreanu: From Russian Anarchist to Romanian Christian-Orthodox Chapter 3 The Wanderings of a Revolutionary Globetrotter and the Metamorphosis of a Bakuninist Part II Chapter 4 Cholera, Health for All, and Nation Building Chapter 5 Victor Babeş and the Cultures of Bacteriology Part III Chapter 6 Narodniks and Marxists in Romania: Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea and Other Exotic Plants Chapter 7 The Nationalization of the Social Question: Constantin Stere Chapter 8 The Romanian Association for the Advancement and Spread of Sciences, the National Exhibition, and a ‘Monstrous Yellow Bird’ Conclusions Bibliography Index Blick ins Buch In Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848-1914 , Clin Cotoi brings to life several 'obscure' anarchists, physicians, public hygienists and reformers roaming the borderlands of Europe and Russia. The book follows individuals, texts, projects, sometimes even bacteria, traveling, meeting, colliding, writing and talking to each other in surprising places, and on changing topics. All of them navigated the land, sometimes finding unexpected loopholes and shortcuts in it, and emerged in different and unexpected parts of the social, political or geographical space. Using materials ranging from anarchists' letters, to social-theoretical debates and medical treatises, Clin Cotoi points to the larger theoretical and historical issues involved in the local creation of the social, its historicity, and its representability. In Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848-1914, Călin Cotoi brings to life several 'obscure' anarchists, physicians, public hygienists and reformers roaming the borderlands of Europe and Russia. The book follows individuals, texts, projects, sometimes even bacteria, traveling, meeting, colliding, writing and talking to each other in surprising places, and on changing topics. All of them navigated the land, sometimes finding unexpected loopholes and shortcuts in it, and emerged in different and unexpected parts of the social, political or geographical space. Using materials ranging from anarchists' letters, to social-theoretical debates and medical treatises, Călin Cotoi points to the larger theoretical and historical issues involved in the local creation of the social, its historicity, and its representability