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 Thu, 14 May 2026 03:37:33 GMT 2026-05-14T03:37:33Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/bitstream/id/5535abd0-816b-493a-b9a7-e0a2f3d9fa78/ http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4294 http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4522 Violence hidden in plain sight: pin-prick land grabbing in Romania Delibas, Hestia; Velicu, Irina; Savin, Ioana; Cosma, Simion Valer; Brumă, Ioan Sebastian; Sălcudean, Minodora The post-socialist transition in Romania has materialised in myriad factors that slowly eroded the capacity for social reproduction of rural populations. Using the concept of pin-prick land grabbing, this article draws attention to how, against the backdrop of loss of rural social fabric, unequal power dynamics among different stakeholders have led to small-scale land disputes and normalisation of extractive violence, which eventually facilitated large-scale land grabbing. By bringing to the surface these ‘hidden in plain sight’ forms of violence, the authors show the structural complexity of the phenomenon, putting forward the need for an environmental justice approach to land grabbing Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4522 2026-05-08T00:00:00Z http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4427 The slow labor of contestation. Environmental injustice in Băicoi, Romania Cosma, Valer Simion; Serbanuta, Claudia; Codreanu, Ionut; Rusu, Oana 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 Protestele fermierilor în mass-media mainstream din România: teme, narațiuni și încadrari predominante Sălcudean, Minodora 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 Seeds of Discord or Lanes of Solidarity? : Understanding farmers’ protests in Central and Eastern Europe within the context of increasing Ukrainian grain flows Mamonova, Natalia; Spiewak, Ruta; Bilewicz, Aleksandra; Chęcińska, Kinga; Sălcudean, Minodora; Velicu, Irina; Gonda, Noémi; Bori, Péter József 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