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About the project<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Romania features a high number of commons spread across the Carpathian Mountain range. Commons are woodlands and grasslands owned and governed mostly by communities, which can be territorial villages, kinship-groups or groups of descendants. And while the territorial villages are clearly groups of people living together in a certain bounded area, the kinship-groups and groups of descendants are rather more diffuse. Membership in such communities of rightholders is defined differently, according to various historical developments in the different provinces. The most notable difference is between 1) place-based systems of equal rights and 2) inheritance-based systems of unequal rights.<\/p>\n

All commons as a category of property regime are called in Romania \u2018traditional or historical associative forms\u2019, forme asociative traditionale sau istorice, referred to in local language mainly as ob\u0219te (pl. ob\u0219ti), composesorat (pl. composesorate) and asocia\u021bie urbarial\u0103 (pl. asocia\u021bii urbariale). From a legal point of view, they are considered land in private property of \u2018juridical persons\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"\"What did our project do?<\/strong> The extensive research of contemporary Romanian land commons is unprecedented. Our database includes 329 surveyed cases of commons. We collected data from 20% of the existing number of commons in Romania, accounting for nearly 1\/2 of the forests owned by the commons and nearly 1\/3 of the surface of pasture owned.<\/p>\n

More information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Research Team<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"MONICA VASILE<\/strong>
\nProject Director, <\/strong>member of the Solidarity Lab<\/span><\/span>
\nMonica is an environmental anthropologist. She has conducted extensive etnographic fieldwork and sociological surveys in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. Her research topics are land commons, forests, pastoral practices, timber logging and trade, human-animal relations, nature conservation and rewilding. Currently she is affiliated with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany.
\nmonica.vasile01@gmail.com<\/a>;\u00a0www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Monica_Vasile4<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"IRINA OPINCARU<\/strong>
\nResearcher,\u00a0<\/strong>member of the Solidarity Lab<\/span><\/span>
\nIrina is a sociologist, a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Sociology at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She has ample research experience, both academic and applied, in the areas of cooperative practice, social economy and financial exclusion.<\/p>\n

irina.opincaru@sas.unibuc.ro<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"GEORGE IORDACHESCU<\/strong>
\nResearcher<\/span><\/strong>
\nGeorge is a social anthropologist interested in political ecology and construction&protection of natural heritage. The title of his PhD research at IMT Lucca, Italy, is “Wilderness Production and Protection in Eastern Europe: Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal conservation and its impact on forest livelihoods.”
\ngeorge.iordachescu@gmail.com<\/a>;\u00a0www.imtlucca.it\/george.iordachescu<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"STEFAN VOICU<\/strong>
\nResearcher<\/strong><\/span>
\nStefan is a PhD student in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. His research examines the interplay of power, capital and environment in the Carpathian forest commons, and the cash crop farms of South-Eastern Romania.
\nvoicu_stefan@phd.ceu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"ARRYN SNOWBALL<\/strong>
\nFieldwork Assistant<\/strong><\/span>
\nArryn is a visual artist. He has a Doctorate of Visual Arts from the Queensland College of Art, Australia, where he taught painting from 2005-2012. He has held solo exhibitions in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. He contributes to our project with photography and editing of visual and written content.
\nwww.arrynsnowball.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Methods<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

1. Social Mapping of the Romanian Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n

Method:<\/strong> interviews with commons representatives – survey of 330 commons
\nThe project aimed at describing the large variety of commons to be found across the Romanian Carpathians, investigating the following dimensions:<\/p>\n