<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article elaborates upon the production of Romania’s semi-peripherality at the intersection of <italic>long-durée</italic> dependency, uneven development, Eastern enlargement, and imperial politics, while addressing the advancement of capitalism not as a purely economic endeavour, but as a process of political subjection. It discusses the particular status of Romania in contemporary global capitalism by analysing the broader context of (1) a semi-periphery country subjected to a <italic>long-durée</italic> dependency; (2) uneven development underlay by imperial politics as endemic feature of the neoliberal European Union; (3) ‘Eastern enlargement’ and its economic conditionalities; (4) unevenness in the EU in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. As its conclusion, the article notes that in the past three decades, each of these components had a productive (material or symbolic) function in the reproduction of Romanian’s semi-peripherality as part of capitalism’s advancement in the new Millennium.</p></abstract>

The article elaborates upon the production of Romania’s semi-peripherality at the intersection of long-durée dependency, uneven development, Eastern enlargement, and imperial politics, while addressing the advancement of capitalism not as a purely economic endeavour, but as a process of political subjection. It discusses the particular status of Romania in contemporary global capitalism by analysing the broader context of (1) a semi-periphery country subjected to a long-durée dependency; (2) uneven development underlay by imperial politics as endemic feature of the neoliberal European Union; (3) ‘Eastern enlargement’ and its economic conditionalities; (4) unevenness in the EU in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. As its conclusion, the article notes that in the past three decades, each of these components had a productive (material or symbolic) function in the reproduction of Romanian’s semi-peripherality as part of capitalism’s advancement in the new Millennium.

Three Decades After. Advancing Capitalism and the (Re)Production of Romania’s Semi-Peripherality

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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The article elaborates upon the production of Romania’s semi-peripherality at the intersection of long-durée dependency, uneven development, Eastern...

Three Decades After. Advancing Capitalism and the (Re)Production of Romania’s Semi-Peripherality

Published Online: Feb 17, 2020

Page range: 141 - 164

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2019-0013

Keywords
semi-peripherality, capitalism, dependency, uneven development, Eastern enlargement, imperial politics, Romania

© 2019 Enikő Vincze, published by Sciendo

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

Three Decades After. Advancing Capitalism and the (Re)Production of Romania’s Semi-Peripherality

Published Online: Feb 17, 2020

Page range: 141 - 164

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2019-0013

Keywordssemi-peripherality, capitalism, dependency, uneven development, Eastern enlargement, imperial politics, Romania

© 2019 Enikő Vincze, published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
semi-peripherality, capitalism, dependency, uneven development, Eastern enlargement, imperial politics, Romania