{"id":7037,"date":"2025-07-05T09:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T09:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jssp.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/?p=7037"},"modified":"2025-07-05T09:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T09:03:38","slug":"abstract-04jssp012025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jssp.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/?p=7037","title":{"rendered":"Abstract 04JSSP012025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Storytelling and Agency: Place Attachment Bridging Past, Present and Future in Romanian Deportees\u2019 Memories<\/span><\/a>
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Oana-Ramona ILOVAN1<\/sup>, Claudia-Florentina DOBRE2<\/sup>, Vasile ZOTIC*3<\/sup>, Adinel-Ciprian DINC\u01024<\/sup><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>*\u00a0Corresponding author
\n1 <\/sup><\/em>Babe\u0219-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Department of Regional Geography and Territorial Planning, Territorial Identities and Development Research Centre, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA<\/em>
\n<\/strong>2 <\/sup>Romanian Academy, \u201cNicolae Iorga\u201d Institute of History, Bucharest, ROMANIA
\n<\/strong>3 <\/sup>Babe\u0219-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Department of Human Geography and Tourism, Centre for Research on Settlements and Urbanism, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
\n<\/strong>4 <\/sup>Babe\u0219-Bolyai University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Centre for Diplomatic and Medieval Documentary Palaeography, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
\nE-mail<\/strong>: oana.ilovan@ubbcluj.ro; ORCID<\/strong>: 0000-0003-2075-1808
\n<\/strong>E-mail<\/strong>: cfdobre@iini.ro; ORCID<\/strong>: 0000-0001-6778-3466
\n<\/strong>E-mail<\/strong>: vasile.zotic@ubbcluj.ro; ORCID<\/strong>: 0000-0002-4489-0637
\n<\/strong>E-mail<\/strong>: adinel.dinca@ubbcluj.ro; ORCID<\/strong>: 0000-0001-5817-815X
\nPages<\/strong>: 49-66. DOI<\/strong>: 10.24193\/JSSP.2025.1.04<\/a>
\nReceived<\/strong>: 03 June 2025 \u00a0
\nReceived in revised form<\/strong>: 26 June 2025
\nAccepted for publication<\/strong>: 30 June 2025
\nAvailable online<\/strong>: 5 July 2025
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Cite<\/strong>: Ilovan O.-R., Dobre C.-F., Zotic V., Dinc\u0103 A.-C. (2025), Storytelling and Agency: Place Attachment Bridging Past, Present and Future in Romanian Deportees\u2019 Memories. Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, 16(1), 49-66. DOI: 10.24193\/JSSP.2025.1.04<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>. Political deportation is one instance that defines the memory of violence and trauma in post-socialist Romania. Building on experiences of the deportees to the Soviet Gulag (from Northern Bukovina, in 1941) and to B\u0103r\u0103gan region of Romania (from Banat and Western Oltenia, in 1951), our paper explores the connections between exposure to traumatic events (i.e., deportations) and place attachment (re)construction. Despite a shared sense of their vulnerability during deportation, some deportees survived its horrors and were able to narrate their experiences. Based on deportees\u2019 narratives of fear and survival, we investigate, through a qualitative methodology, the impact of exposure to structural violence and deportees\u2019 positive, negative and mixed emotions about places. The impact of the extreme and dramatic political events of deportations on people\u2019s cognitive and emotional bonds to places includes both the loss of place of residence and the construction of new people-place connections in deportation spaces. Findings show a strong relation between people and several values, together with related activities that are frequently mentioned in deportees\u2019 life histories: faith in God, family, socialising and leisure, freedom, patriotism, and political views. We concluded that valuing all this gives and maintains deportees\u2019 hope, which is a positive emotion that contributed to the (re)construction of people-place bonds during deportation and afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n

K e y w o r d s<\/strong>: <\/strong>\u00a0people-place bonds, life histories, spatial memory, Romania, B\u0103r\u0103gan, Siberia, faith, family, nation <\/span>
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Storytelling and Agency: Place Attachment Bridging Past, Present and Future in Romanian Deportees\u2019 Memories Oana-Ramona ILOVAN1, Claudia-Florentina DOBRE2, Vasile ZOTIC*3, Adinel-Ciprian DINC\u01024 *\u00a0Corresponding author 1 Babe\u0219-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Department of Regional Geography and Territorial Planning, Territorial Identities and Development Research Centre, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA 2 Romanian Academy, \u201cNicolae Iorga\u201d Institute of History, Bucharest, ROMANIA … <\/p>\n

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