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Remus Cretan

@remustim123.bsky.social
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Human Geographer fighting for social justice.

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Remus Cretan @remustim123.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our new paper on peri-urban transformation of Timisoara highlight that the peri-urban area should appropriate governance tools which could make these territories become strategic spaces for sustainable metropolitan development. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Peri-urban transformation and quality of life in post-socialist cities: residents’ perceptions in Timișoara, Romania
This paper examines how residents and local actors in the peri-urban areas of Timișoara perceive the spatial change and the effects of rapid peri-urban development on their quality of life. To do t...
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Remus Cretan @remustim123.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Our new study is about memory activism and emotions of the 1989 Romanian Revolution. We examine how the shift from collective euphoria to post-revolutionary disillusionment has shaped participants' memory activism for social justice. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Memory activism of the 1989 Romanian Revolution - Alina Satmari, Remus Creţan, Andreea Miruna Nicoară, Ioana Satmari, 2026
This study explores memory activism and emotion during the 1989 Romanian Revolution, addressing a gap in existing memory studies on this event. Drawing on 60 vi...
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Remus Cretan @remustim123.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Our paper on street (re)naming practices and spatial ethnolinguistic contact is now published in journal GeoHumanities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Street (Re)Naming Practices and Spatial Ethnolinguistic Contact: A Longitudinal Study in Timișoara, Romania
Recent studies on urban street (re)naming practices have highlighted the importance of political power when changes occur from one political regime to another. However, longitudinal studies on diff...
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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New in The GJ: 'Computational analysis of contested monuments and collective memory in a multiethnic city' by Alexandru-Sabin Nicula et al. This paper analyses how 4 monuments in Cluj-Napoca reflect Romanian-Hungarian relations & the negotiation of collective memory. doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Alexandru-Sabin Nicula, Remus Crețan, Alexandru Dragan & Bogdan Oancea (2026) entitled: 'Computational Analysis of Contested Monuments and Collective Memory in a Multiethnic City' with a blue banner at the top.
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Remus Cretan @remustim123.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Together with my postdoctoral student Sabin Nicula and two other colleagues, we are proud to see published our article. Using multi-stage computational methods, we analyze how urban monuments become spaces for negotiating collective memory. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study analyses how four monuments in the centre of Cluj-Napoca reflect Romanian-Hungarian relations and the negotiation of collective memory, based on a combination of media analysis and computa...
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Remus Cretan @remustim123.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In the recent paper ('On the slow train: tourists’ experiences of deceleration') published in journal Mobilities we explored travel experiences on the Oravita-Anina train. Nice collaboration with Alexandru Dragan and Duncan Light www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On the slow train: tourists’ experiences of deceleration
This paper examines slow mobility and deceleration in the context of tourism. It focuses on a heritage railway in Romania, which travels through mountainous scenery at an average speed of 17 km/hou...
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Remus Cretan @remustim123.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My paper published today in journal Population, Space and Place has the title: 'Wounded Place‐Based Memories in Romania: Towards Social Justice for the Deportees in the Bărăgan Area'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Wounded Place‐Based Memories in Romania: Towards Social Justice for the Deportees in the Bărăgan Area
Recent studies urge deeper debate on memory and social justice in postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe. One of the harshest events in communist Romania was the deportation from the Romanian-Yugos...
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Remus Cretan @remustim123.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
My latest paper investigates how processes of post-socialist reform have unfolded in Băile Herculane, a Romanian spa, and how this reform radically disrupted Herculane's development path. Thanks @tourismgeographies.bsky.social
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Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"Techno-capitalism and inequality: Silicon Valley's global influence" by @remustim123.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What a special moment when such rad thinkers engage with one's work. Thank you to Antti Tarvainen, @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @remustim123.bsky.social and @maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social for their generous engagement with my book. @dukepress.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Remus Cretan @remustim123.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Happy to see that my latest co-authored paper on vertical social mobility of poor urban Roma mothers is published in journal Habitat International. Thanks Elsevier @elsevierconnect.bsky.social ! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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