<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article aims to illustrate the mutual dependencies and transfers between different segments of the cultural field and areas of civic or political activities, together with the function these changes fulfil in redrawing individual trajectories and then the balance of forces. The leading idea is that, in relation with the literary field, the intellectual field is most sensitive to political changes and functions as a regulatory and legitimizing space for writers’ everyday practices, via its power to produce the criteria for public recognition and thus for symbolic inclusion and exclusion. This casts a different look on the claims for creative autonomy within the cultural field and its multiple dependencies on media, politics, the civic and the academic field, and the understanding of the inner logic of these domains through the lens of their complex interrelationship.</p></abstract>

The article aims to illustrate the mutual dependencies and transfers between different segments of the cultural field and areas of civic or political activities, together with the function these changes fulfil in redrawing individual trajectories and then the balance of forces. The leading idea is that, in relation with the literary field, the intellectual field is most sensitive to political changes and functions as a regulatory and legitimizing space for writers’ everyday practices, via its power to produce the criteria for public recognition and thus for symbolic inclusion and exclusion. This casts a different look on the claims for creative autonomy within the cultural field and its multiple dependencies on media, politics, the civic and the academic field, and the understanding of the inner logic of these domains through the lens of their complex interrelationship.

Writers, Intellectuals, Politics: The Transformation of the Cultural Field in Post-Communist Romania

Sociology Department, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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The article aims to illustrate the mutual dependencies and transfers between different segments of the cultural field and areas of civic or political...

Writers, Intellectuals, Politics: The Transformation of the Cultural Field in Post-Communist Romania

Published Online: Jan 29, 2016

Page range: 125 - 150

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2015-0006

Keywords
intellectuals, writers, cultural field, social networks, postsocialist transformations

© 2015 Marius Lazăr, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Writers, Intellectuals, Politics: The Transformation of the Cultural Field in Post-Communist Romania

Published Online: Jan 29, 2016

Page range: 125 - 150

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2015-0006

Keywordsintellectuals, writers, cultural field, social networks, postsocialist transformations

© 2015 Marius Lazăr, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
intellectuals, writers, cultural field, social networks, postsocialist transformations