The post-socialist school camp: a story of dereliction at Bogda, Romania

Lucian Vesalon and Ciprian Nițu

Landscape Research, 2021, vol. 46, issue 5, 605-617

Abstract: This paper examines the condition of post-socialist derelict spaces. We discuss the case of a school camp from Bogda, Romania, and thus indicate a category of cases missing from the academic literature. Besides mapping the spatial condition of a derelict post-socialist school camp, we also examine broader political processes that followed the fall of socialism. In doing so, we seek to bridge the gap between the study of derelict and abandoned spaces and the critical perspectives on the neoliberalisation of space. Our case draws attention to the consequences of translating neoliberalism to Eastern European societies, especially on spaces deemed to be economically unproductive and socially obsolete. We have also discovered how a derelict school camp becomes a site where spontaneous and unexpected uses can proliferate. Our aim was to include in the ongoing conversations about the politics of derelict spaces a new category from a less examined geographical area.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2020.1871471

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