CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Sipos, Eszter |
|---|---|
| Title | Ghetto or Self-fulfilling Prophecy? The afterlife of Soviet Cultural Policy in a Transylvanian town |
| Summary | This thesis deals with questions related to cultural policy, its implementations and its legacy in the Transilvanian town of Sepsiszentgyörgy, a provincial town in central Romania. The town is an improbable location for a cultural centre, yet socialist cultural policies have created an interesting amalgam of creative forces in this location. The thesis analyzes how these policies of socialist Romania and their implementation in Sepsiszentgyörgy are represented in the discourse of the intellectuals of the town. Using a series of interviews as core material, their discourses will be analyzed having in mind the following questions: how do these discourses deal with the legacy of socialist cultural policy? What are their main frames of interpretation? Do they see the cultural space of the town as artificially created by socialist policy and if so what makes this space viable or unviable today? I argue that socialist cultural policy between 1968 and 1989, willingly or not, created an agglomeration of creative energies in Sepsiszentgyörgy. However the seed of most of the problems of today’s cultural life of the town were also sawn in that period, which, combined with the new discourses after 1989 have contributed to the malfunctioning of the town as a cultural space. The final section of the thesis presents the proposals for improving cultural life in Sepsiszentgyörgy which were offered by the intellectuals of the town. |
| Supervisor | Jean-Louis Fabiani, Vlad Naumescu |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/sipos_eszter.pdf |
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