Romanian nationalism has been and it still is a research topic that has generated and still generates various controversies, both at the level of the opinions of the authors who have dealt with this subject, and at the level of the interpretations that the reader can have on such a topic. And the analysis of the evolution of Romanian nationalism since 1989 is a theme that can be included in this framework of different, and sometimes even contradictory, approaches. Moreover, any analysis of post-communist Romanian nationalism may have its limitations, in terms of the authors’ approaches, and because, in general, approaches to nationalism have a certain potential for inaccuracy. The nationalist phenomenon is very complex because it refers to the people (the nation) and the country and quite often the boundary between nationalism and patriotism, for example, is quite weak. And in the Romanian case, things were even more complicated, both because the nationalism responded to a need for homogeneity existing in the post-communist Romanian society, and because the Romanian nationalism had a specific and quite complex typology.

In this paper, we referred more to those aspects that looked at the presence of nationalism in areas such as society, culture, religion or interethnic relations. Moreover, the period chosen for the study was rather a delicate one, considering the fact that the last decade of the twentieth century was, for Romania, a period of search of the road that the country needed to straighten, after half a century of totalitarian regime. And studying nationalism in such a historical context may have different interpretations, especially since post-communist Romanian nationalism, as some Romanian authors have stated, could be considered as paradigmatic for nationalism in general, because of its subtlety and complexity. (from the „Introduction”)

„The history of the Roman auxilia was for the first time closely examined by C. Cichorius. An early attempt to discuss various topics and aspects related to the place and role of the auxiliary units in the Roman army belongs to G. L. Cheesman. For the study herein, of great significance are the studies of W. Wagner and K. Kraft4, who tackle, others also the units active on the territory of Moesia Superior. J. Beneš approaches the issue of auxiliaries from the two Moesiae and the Dacian provinces, initially in a 1970-study and then in a monograph issued in 1978.

In 1980, P. A. Holder also contributed an article to the basic reference work on the topic of Roman auxilia and their history in the Roman empire during the 1st century AD at a time when the evidence was limited (to some degree represented by military diplomas) and difficult to interpret together with our knowledge on the history auxiliary units known later to be stationed in the mentioned provinces. The special importance of the study consists in the attempt to equate the units recorded in the 1st century with those attested with certainty through 2nd century-military diplomas. The approach has been recently furthered by the publication of two overviews on the displacement of the auxiliaries under Trajan and Hadrian.” Introduction

„The frontiers of the Roman Empire, over 5000 km long, stretch from the Atlantic coast of Scotland, along the Rhine and the Danube, also enclose the Banat region and Transylvania, then going down along the Oriental Carpathians to the Black Sea; from the southern coast of the Black Sea they continue towards the Near East until the Red Sea; then, in North Africa, they line the edge of the Sahara desert until the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Over this entire area, visible traces of fortifications, roads and settlements are still preserved, but numerous monuments still lay hidden underneath the earth. Despite the fact that the Roman frontiers crossed regions with different relief and climate, they constitute a whole in that they were designed to protect Roman territories. The research of these monuments and the preservation policy regarding them was and is unequal in the various presentday states on whose territory traces of the Roman frontier are to be found. Consequently, in the ‘80s of the 20th century, the idea of globally protecting the Roman frontiers, viewed as a unitary monument, was met. In 1987, Hadrian’s Wall in United Kingdom was declared a UNESCO monument. It was followed in 2005 by the German-Raetian sector, on which occasion the UNESCO committee decided to set up the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ site. (...)

This project through its complexity generated an interdisciplinary approach of the proposed subject stimulating such future attempts in the archaeological research field. By using the latest technical methods of non-destructive investigation the project did not damage the stratigraphy of the archaeological site obtaining instead a high amount of data otherwise time consuming judging from the archaeological excavations perspective contributing also to the preservation of the cultural heritage.” - Introduction

SOMMAIRE

Laura T. Ilea, Repenser le politique à travers des imaginaires dispersés

Imaginaire spatial et réflexion politique/Spatial Imaginary and Political Reflection

Amaryll Chanady, The Spatial Imaginary and Literary Reflections on the Political
Nicolas Beauclair, Vecteurs identitaires des discours autochtones : affirmation dʼune ontologie politique
Simon Harel, La route et la loi du père (jusquʼà La route de Cormac McCarthy)
Yoshiro Sakamoto, Ştefan Baciu, Archipelagic Poet from Romania
Dana Bizuleanu, Exploring Diversity: The Literature of Migration
Silviu Lupaşcu, Le Sabre et la plume à écrire. Espaces politiques, spirituels, angéliques dans le système philosophique dʼIbn Khaldun

Éthique du commun et puissance/Ethics of the Commons and Power

Érik Bordeleau, Exercices dʼauto-virtualisation dans lʼélément anonyme de la pensée
Isabelle Galichon, Lʼinjonction à témoigner du « Parlement des invisibles » :Entre expression émancipatrice et représentation inachevée
Horea Poenar, Ethics of the Commons. Art and the Dislocation of the World
Hubert Gendron-Blais, Dimensions sonores du politique : recherche-création autour des sons des mouvements
Ion Copoeru, La voix et la honte. De la narration impossible à la possibilité narrative
Claudio Clivio, Emanuele Severino, Diego Fusaro et la critique de la Multitude
Francis Douville Vigeant, Pensée politique et pacifisme chez Stefan Zweig

Arts et politique/Art and Politics

Ruxandra Cesereanu, Andrei Codrescu – An Anarchetypal Writer
Laura T. Ilea, Lʼimaginaire est apolitique : Pierre ou les Taches solaires de Vlad Zografi
Călina Părău, Remembering Images: Cinema Thinking the Century
Cristina Eșianu Farcaș, Logiques de la jetabilité : Dépossession et voix off dans le documentaire dʼanimation Le voyage de M. Crulic
Nicoleta Popa Blanariu, A Transdisciplinary Deconstruction of Ideology. Gnostic Alchemic Imaginary, Dialectic Materialism and Atomic Physics in Vintilă Horiaʼs Novels

Utopies et hétérotopies /Utopia and Heterotopia

Corin Braga, Utopies féministes modernes et rêves de parthénogenèse
Marius Conkan, Heterotopias: Making and Remaking Imaginary Spaces
Radu Toderici, Les allusions à lʼutopie – que nous disent-elles sur lʼhistoire du genre utopique ?

Politique et mentalités /Politics and Mentalities

Ştefan Borbély, The Year 1968 in Romania and Two Literary Aftershocks
Adrian G. Matus, The Reception of the American Counterculture in Communist Romania (1960-1975). The Rebels with a Cause
Doru Pop, Patriarchal Discourses and Anti-Feminine Attitudes in Romanian Political and Media Cultures
Denis Fleurdorge, Les représentations du politique. De la symbolique du pouvoir au pouvoir de la symbolisation
Jean Libis, Les arbres et la forêt ou lʼâge dʼor des gauchismes français

Adagio: Thèses politiques/Political Theses

Călin Andrei Mihăilescu, Theses on Political Reimagination

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