IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cai/recpuf/receo1_512_0121.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Transnational activism against heritage destruction as a human rights violation in Romania before and after 1989

Author

Listed:
  • Laura Demeter

Abstract

This article examines transnational mobilisations on both sides of the Iron Curtain against the destruction of heritage in Romania during Nicolae Ceau?escu?s regime and their post-1989 afterlives. By the end of the 1980s, various campaigns led to the creation of a UNESCO mission that assessed the state of built heritage and set a precedent in the communist bloc by calling out the Romanian regime at the UN for its human rights violations. The paper shows how these initiatives, too, contributed to the delegitimisation of Ceau?escu by framing heritage destruction as a human right infringed upon by communist authorities. Yet, despite international echoes before 1989, these mobilisations had little impact on the process of dealing with the past in post-communism.

Suggested Citation

  • Laura Demeter, 2020. "Transnational activism against heritage destruction as a human rights violation in Romania before and after 1989," Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, Presses Universitaires de France, vol. 0(2), pages 121-150.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:recpuf:receo1_512_0121
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=RECEO1_512_0121
    Download Restriction: free
    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/revue-d-etudes-comparatives-est-ouest-2020-2-page-121.htm
    Download Restriction: free
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cai:recpuf:receo1_512_0121. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cairn.info/revue-revue-d-etudes-comparatives-est-ouest.htm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.