<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article examines the part played by foreign academic literature translated into Romanian during the 1970s. Dwelling on the activity of the Centre for the Study of Youth Problems (CSYP), it aims to highlight the national authorities’ efforts to mobilize youth for a new industrialization wave as part of an encompassing global trend of making the youth into an object of professionalized knowledge and policy. To this end, it analyses how the internationalization of expertise by transnational production and circulation of knowledge changed the Romanian scientific practices and recalibrated the experts’ visibility within the state’s decision-making processes. My contribution explores the shifting relationship between public housing and industrial growth as a foundation for socialist labour politics, the transnational emergence of a ‘rule of experts’, and the political interests around research on youths and their living conditions.</p></abstract>

This article examines the part played by foreign academic literature translated into Romanian during the 1970s. Dwelling on the activity of the Centre for the Study of Youth Problems (CSYP), it aims to highlight the national authorities’ efforts to mobilize youth for a new industrialization wave as part of an encompassing global trend of making the youth into an object of professionalized knowledge and policy. To this end, it analyses how the internationalization of expertise by transnational production and circulation of knowledge changed the Romanian scientific practices and recalibrated the experts’ visibility within the state’s decision-making processes. My contribution explores the shifting relationship between public housing and industrial growth as a foundation for socialist labour politics, the transnational emergence of a ‘rule of experts’, and the political interests around research on youths and their living conditions.

Industrial Youth, Housing and Socialist Expertise in Late Socialist Romania

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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This article examines the part played by foreign academic literature translated into Romanian during the 1970s. Dwelling on the activity of the Centre for the...

Industrial Youth, Housing and Socialist Expertise in Late Socialist Romania

Published Online: Aug 20, 2018

Page range: 99 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2018-0006

Keywords
youth, housing, Romania, knowledge production

© 2018 Mara Mărginean, published by Sciendo

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

Industrial Youth, Housing and Socialist Expertise in Late Socialist Romania

Published Online: Aug 20, 2018

Page range: 99 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2018-0006

Keywordsyouth, housing, Romania, knowledge production

© 2018 Mara Mărginean, published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
youth, housing, Romania, knowledge production