Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization (ePub)

Eniko Vincze is a professor at Babe¿-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. Initiator of the local movement Cäi Sociale ACUM!/ Social Housing NOW!, she is also involved in national and international housing justice struggles. In her early career, Eniko published on nationalism, feminism, and the socio-spatial marginalization of impoverished Roma. In the past ten years, she conducted academic and militant research on the spatialization and racialization of socio-economic inequalities, local and global politics of housing, territorial and environmental injustice, urban and real estate development, housing regimes in state socialism and neoliberal capitalism, and uneven development and capitalist transformations in Romania. She co-edited the following volumes published in 2018: Racialized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism; The Romani Women's Movement: Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge). Among her articles written in 2023 are "The making of a racialized surplus population. Romania's labor-housing nexus" (Focaal, 97: 57-72); "Deindustrialization and the real-estate-development-driven housing regime. The case of Romania in global context" (Studia UBB Sociologia, 68, 1: 25-73); "Residualized public housing in Romania: peripheralization of 'the social' and the racialization of 'unhouseables' " (IJURR, forthcoming). She acted as the director of the project that inspired the present book.

Ioana Florea is a sociologist working on urban transformations and manifestations of uneven development in Eastern European cities. She has collaborated as a researcher with The Babe¿-Bolyai University, The University of Gothenburg, and Södertörn University. Ioana is co-author of the monograph Contemporary Housing Struggles. A Structural Field of Contention Approach (2022). Her recent contributions on housing struggles are published in Global Urbanism. Knowledge, Power and the