http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4294 The main aim of the project is to expand the theory of environmental justice by analyzing the every-day life lived experience of local communities exposed to various environmental changes, hazards and conflicts Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:21:23 GMT 2026-04-14T22:21:23Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/retrieve/5535abd0-816b-493a-b9a7-e0a2f3d9fa78/ http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4294 http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4427 Title: The slow labor of contestation. Environmental injustice in Băicoi, Romania Authors: Cosma, Valer Simion; Serbanuta, Claudia; Codreanu, Ionut; Rusu, Oana Abstract: This article examines environmental injustice in a semi-rural, post-socialist community through a case study of Băicoi, Romania. Based on ethnographic research, it shows how waste infrastructures, weak regulation, and institutional neglect produced environmental marginality through accumulation by contamination. We introduce the concept of slow labor of contestation to capture residents’ layered civic efforts – monitoring, complaint filing, protest participation, procedural engagement, and legal action – through which they confront prolonged harm. The analysis reveals how environmental knowledge was systematically dismissed, generating intertwined procedural and epistemic injustice in post-socialist waste governance. Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4427 2026-03-01T00:00:00Z http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4315 Title: Protestele fermierilor în mass-media mainstream din România: teme, narațiuni și încadrari predominante Authors: Sălcudean, Minodora Abstract: This article analyses how a significant part of the mainstream press in Romania framed the farmers’ protests in January 2024. A complex social phenomenon, with a tradition in Western European countries, especially in France, this transnational revolt movement attracts the attention of journalists only during the actual duration of the street events. The study aims to identify and correlate the preferred framing angles in the mainstream media, to highlight recurring themes, narratives and predominant patterns in the journalistic practice of covering the protests. The questions that formed the basis of the research are the following, namely: 1. How does the mainstream media in Romania frame the farmers’ protests? 2. What are the dominant themes and narratives and how are they correlated with certain ideological frames? 3. Is there an interest in the mainstream media for the intersectional approach of social and environmental justice issues, in the context of the farmers’ protests? The exploratory research was conducted manually on a corpus of 189 journalistic materials, predominantly news, collected from the news sites that covered the most, in quantitative terms, the farmers’ protests of January 2024. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4315 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4297 Title: Seeds of Discord or Lanes of Solidarity? : Understanding farmers’ protests in Central and Eastern Europe within the context of increasing Ukrainian grain flows Authors: Mamonova, Natalia; Spiewak, Ruta; Bilewicz, Aleksandra; Chęcińska, Kinga; Sălcudean, Minodora; Velicu, Irina; Gonda, Noémi; Bori, Péter József Abstract: The 2023-2025 farmers’ protests in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which were sparked by the influx of Ukrainian grain following the re-routing of Ukrainian grain shipments after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, attracted considerable political and social attention at both national and EU level. Most interpretations of these protests can be narrowed down to three somewhat competing assumptions: (i) the farmers’ protests were economically unfounded, as Ukrainian agricultural exports did not damage the CEE markets; (ii) the farmers’ protests were aligned with, or orchestrated by, a specific political force; (iii) these protests jeopardised the EU’s solidarity and support for Ukraine. This article analyses farmers’ protests in Poland, Romania and Hungary in light of the aforementioned assumptions. It reveals the complex socio-economic and political problems faced by farmers in CEE. It concludes that the farmers’ protests are indicative of a systemic crisis of the dominant agri-food regime in which the influx of Ukrainian grain was a trigger rather than a root cause of the crisis. Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4297 2025-11-01T00:00:00Z http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4296 Title: The insidious toxicity of investor-state arbitration Gabriel Resources vs Romania Authors: Velicu, Irina; Alexandrescu, Filip; Rusu, Ooana; Codreanu, Ionut; Triefus, Stephanie; Bunescu, Ioana Abstract: Looking at the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) case ‘Gabriel Resources vs Romania’, this paper documents the intangible losses, the chronic stress, and the damaged dignity of communities having to defend their livelihoods in the long-term ongoing conflicts over mineral resources. We expand the concept of environmental injustice as an ‘insidious’ form of toxicity ‘poisoning’ bodies even before chemical contamination, where the threat of ISDS is one of the many tools used by corporate power to reinforce itself. This paper answers scholarly calls for more empirical studies on the ISDS to expose the politics behind incommensurable valuation conflicts and justice as recognition. We analyse the ISDS case as part and parcel of the hegemonic extractivist logic of colonial power, capitalist accumulation by dispossession, and ontological occupation, which have left deep scars in the collective spaces of people imagining possible alternative futures. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4296 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z