1980, 1981, 1989, 2004

Gail Kligman

  • Professor
  • University of California, Los Angeles

Program

Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research in East European Studies, 1980

Project

Ritual and belief in contemporary Romania

Abstract

Program

Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research in East European Studies, 1981

Project

Oral Poetry and Ideology: Life Cycle Rituals in Cultural Continuity and Change

Abstract

Program

Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research in East European Studies, 1989

Project

The New Socialist Person: policy, gender, and the body politic in Romania

Abstract

Program

Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research in East European Studies, 2004

Project

The Transformation of Property, State, and Self: Collectivization in Romania, 1949-1962

Department

Sociology

Abstract

Collectivization was the first mass action through which Romania's young communist regime initiated its radical agenda of transformation, promoting class warfare to achieve its goals. Its implementation dramatically altered everyday life for the majority rural population. Collectivization as process created new property relations, new organizations of village life, and new categories of self, and simultaneously served to construct the Communist Party's authority and the mechanisms through which it was exercised. Based on a collaborative project combining ethnographic and archival research, the proposed analysis examines collectivization and its effects on the transformation of polity, property relations, and self, and explores the relationship between oral and "official" histories.