Ioana Florea
About Ioana Florea
Background Ioana Florea has a Masters degree in Anthropology and Community Development (2008) and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bucharest (2011). Since 2017, she is Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at University of Gothenburg. She has taught seminars at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest; she also worked with the Department “Inequalities, Migrations and Territories” from the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (2010-2011).
Specialist Fields Ioana has been researching on socio-spatial dynamics in poor neighborhoods in Romanian cities, youth experiences of outdoor public spaces marked by post-socialist transformations (her PhD project), and spatial processes of social differentiation. Since 2006, she has been involved with several grassroots organizations from Bucharest working on social and environmental justice, and the right to the city. Thus, most of the research projects she has been part of had an action or educational dimension.
Current research "Housing, social mobilisations and urban governance in Central and Eastern Europe", funded by The Swedish Research Council FORMAS (contract 2016-00258_3). The project aims at critically investigating the nexus of urban governance, housing policy and housing protest in Bucharest, Budapest and Vilnius.
Research Areas Urban studies Social movements
Recent publications
Book chapters
2018, with Hannibal Rhoades, Possibilities and Pitfalls of Environmental Justice Action: Learning from Roşia Montană and Yaigojé Apaporis Anti-mining Struggles. In Apostolopoulou E. and Cortes-Vazquez J. (eds.) The Right to Nature. Social Movements, Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Natures. Routledge.
2017, To name or not to name. Contradictions in naming processes of one Bucharest district. In Harris R. and Vorms C. (eds.) What's in a Name?: Talking about Urban Peripheries. University of Toronto Press.
2016, with Dumitriu M., Living on the edge: the ambiguities of squatting and urban development in Bucharest. In Anders F. and Sedlmaier A. (eds.) Public Goods versus Economic Interests. Global Perspectives on the History of Squatting. Routledge.
2015, The Ups and Downs of a Symbolic City: The Architectural Heritage Protection Movement in Bucharest. In Jacobsson K. (ed.) Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Ashgate.
Co-edited volume
2013, with Pereira I. and Nunes N, City in Movement. Activism, Social Participation and Urban Reinventions. Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers, vol. IV. University Institute of Lisbon.
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Antagonisms and solidarities in housing movements in Bucharest and
Budapest
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Urban Ethics. Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities. Ege, M., Moser, J. (red.) - 2021-01-01 -
Housing struggles in Romania and in Central Eastern
Europe
Ioana Florea, George Zamfir, Veda Popovici, Eniko Vincze, Michele Lancione, Erin McElroy
Radical Housing Journal - 2020-01-01 -
Jurnal din Vulturilor 50. Povestea unei lupte pentru dreptate
locativa
N Visan, C Vozian, V Popovici, I Vlad, M Lancione, Ioana Florea
- 2019-01-01 -
Mișcarea pentru locuire în contextul politicilor de
dreapta
Ioana Florea
FEMINISME, edited by h.arta group - 2019-01-01 -
Ghid pentru prevenirea evacuărilor forțate și responsabilizarea autorităților publice în vederea alocării unei locuințe adecvate persoanelor
evacuate
C Gheorghe, E Vincze, G Zamfir, Ioana Florea, I Vlad, M Dumitriu, S Vintila
- 2019-01-01 -
Raport asupra evacuărilor forțate din România petrecute în perioada 2008 -
2017
G Zamfir, S Vintila, E Vincze, Ioana Florea, M Dumitriu, R Blaga, V Galbea
- 2019-01-01 -
Housing struggles in Bucharest and Budapest: mapping urban civil society in terms of a field of
contention
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Presentation at The XVI Polish Sociological Congress in Wroclaw - 2019-01-01 -
Transformations of housing provision in Romania. Organizations of subtle
violence
Ioana Florea, Mihail Dumitriu
Ephemera Conference 2018 - Post/social/isms, 24-25 May, Budapest - 2018-01-01 -
Antagonism and Solidarity in Housing Movements in Bucharest and Budapest: A Field of Contention
Approach
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the ‚Good’ and Proper Life in Cities, 17-19 January, Munich, Germany - 2018-01-01 -
Possibilities and Pitfalls of Environmental Justice Action: Learning from Roşia Montană and Yaigojé Apaporis Anti-mining
Struggles
Ioana Florea, Hannibal Rhoades
The Right to Nature. Social Movements, Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Natures, eds. E. Apostolopoulou, J. A. Cortes-Vazquez - 2018-01-01 -
A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and
Budapest
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - 2018-01-01 -
Property and homeownership - research
workshop
Ioana Florea
Housing Justice in Eastern Europe - 2018-01-01 -
Transformations of housing provision in Romania: Organizations of subtle
violence
Ioana Florea, Mihail Dumitriu
LeftEast - 2018-01-01 -
Gazeta de Arta
Politica
Ioana Florea
Gazeta de Arta Politica - 2017-01-01 -
To name or not to name. Contradictions in naming processes of one Bucharest
district
Ioana Florea
Harris R. & Vorms C. (eds) What's in a Name?: Talking about Urban Peripheries - 2017-01-01 -
(Un)making solidarities for housing rights in post-crisis
Bucharest
Ioana Florea
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association - "(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities". Athens: 29 august - 01 september - 2017-01-01