CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Fuica, Oana |
|---|---|
| Title | Surveillance and Collaboration Behind the Iron Curtain. The Case of Romanian Historians and Archeologists |
| Summary | This thesis explores the collaboration of Romanian historians and archeologists with the secret police using as sources the Securitate’s files from the early ‘50’s to the mid ‘80’s. By means of a comparative reading of the records I attempt to provide a picture of the state’s interferences in the production of history and of the consequences of their collaboration for the mobility of the cultural producers and other characteristics of the field, such as professional solidarity or the lack of it. This research uncovers not only a diversity of positions and attitudes associated with varying degrees of access to political and cultural capital, but also numerous cases of conversion between the two types of authority. Even though the secret police’s interferences with more or less autonomous disciplines from different political regimes is commonplace, the particularities of the present case can be used to argue that the relationship between the professional producers of knowledge and the state is the defining feature of a cultural field taking a sui generis form. |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/fuica_oana.pdf |
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