Women's Studies International Forum: Centring European Inter-Imperial Peripheries: Intersectional Dynamics in the 2024 Elections in Romania
Norocel, Ov Cristian LU
and Băluță, Ionela
(2026)
Exploratory Workshop: Centring European Inter-imperial Peripheries
In Women's Studies International Forum
- Abstract
- Among the polities in the Eastern European inter-imperial peripheries, Romania has witnessed a particular electoral effervescence in 2024/2025, with ripple effects across the region, and making the headlines across the world: the EU parliamentary elections organized concomitantly with local elections (in June 2024); the national legislative elections (in early December); and the presidential elections (initially in late November 2024, which were annulled and rerun in May 2025). Examining these elections through an intersectional lens, the special issue provides a much-needed critical intervention, by bridging disciplinary divides. It highlights how such an Eastern European inter-imperial location as Romania may be deployed as a matrix to... (More)
- Among the polities in the Eastern European inter-imperial peripheries, Romania has witnessed a particular electoral effervescence in 2024/2025, with ripple effects across the region, and making the headlines across the world: the EU parliamentary elections organized concomitantly with local elections (in June 2024); the national legislative elections (in early December); and the presidential elections (initially in late November 2024, which were annulled and rerun in May 2025). Examining these elections through an intersectional lens, the special issue provides a much-needed critical intervention, by bridging disciplinary divides. It highlights how such an Eastern European inter-imperial location as Romania may be deployed as a matrix to explain wider political developments and stimulating insights at the junction of several systems of social ordering. As such, it is part of a wider intellectual effort, pushing for knowledge production beyond mainstream Western-centric conceptualizations. Finally, it provides critical insights into the localized meaning and trajectory of democracy, at a time of significant corrosion of democratic infrastructures across the world. (Less)
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- author
- Norocel, Ov Cristian
LU
and Băluță, Ionela
- organization
- publishing date
- 2026-06
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- inter-imperiality, Romania, intersectionality, political representation, elections
- in
- Women's Studies International Forum
- publisher
- Elsevier
- conference name
- Exploratory Workshop: Centring European Inter-imperial Peripheries
- conference location
- Lund, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2025-06-16 - 2025-06-17
- ISSN
- 0277-5395
- project
- Networked resistances
- Gender struggles in the new conjuncture. Gender, sexuality and the future of human rights in the 21st century
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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abstract = {{Among the polities in the Eastern European inter-imperial peripheries, Romania has witnessed a particular electoral effervescence in 2024/2025, with ripple effects across the region, and making the headlines across the world: the EU parliamentary elections organized concomitantly with local elections (in June 2024); the national legislative elections (in early December); and the presidential elections (initially in late November 2024, which were annulled and rerun in May 2025). Examining these elections through an intersectional lens, the special issue provides a much-needed critical intervention, by bridging disciplinary divides. It highlights how such an Eastern European inter-imperial location as Romania may be deployed as a matrix to explain wider political developments and stimulating insights at the junction of several systems of social ordering. As such, it is part of a wider intellectual effort, pushing for knowledge production beyond mainstream Western-centric conceptualizations. Finally, it provides critical insights into the localized meaning and trajectory of democracy, at a time of significant corrosion of democratic infrastructures across the world.}},
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keywords = {{inter-imperiality; Romania; intersectionality; political representation; elections}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{Elsevier}},
series = {{Women's Studies International Forum}},
title = {{Women's Studies International Forum: Centring European Inter-Imperial Peripheries: Intersectional Dynamics in the 2024 Elections in Romania}},
year = {{2026}},
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