Political Dynamics of Urban Hodonyms: A Case of Chisinau, Moldova

This paper researches the role that hodonyms (street names) play in forming cultural and collective identity and awareness. Street names are thereby treated as the elements that get transformed from everyday communication and interaction to symbols constructed by political elites to direct the collective history perception and memory. The paper explores the principles of forming a new onomastic space of the capital city of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau. Current work identifies some peculiarities of street renaming, grouping them into several categories. The main principles of renaming policies are also revealed. The analyses of renaming practices help understand the national identities that Moldovans are going to build, and the ideology that local and national authorities will impose.

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Origins, Memory, and Identity: “Villages” and the Politics of Nationalism in the Republic of Moldova

East European Politics and Societies and Cultures ◽

10.1177/0888325407307351 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 588-610 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jennifer R. Cash

Keyword(s):

Collective Identity ◽

Soviet Period ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Recent Past ◽

Republic Of Moldova ◽

National Movement ◽

The Arts ◽

Political Events ◽

The Republic ◽

And Performance

This article reconsiders the manifestation of nationalism in the Republic of Moldova during the late Soviet period and early 1990s. Whereas dominant approaches have focused on the ethnic dimensions of the national movement, I argue that rural-urban identities also played a significant role in shaping political events and outcomes of the recent past by drawing on ethnographic research among participants in the “folkloric movement” within the arts and performance world. This movement coincided with the broader national movement of the 1980s and demonstrates the centrality of “villages” in the construction of an anti-Soviet “national” identity among ethnic Moldovans. In conclusion, the politics of nationalism must be understood in a wider framework that also accounts for the importance of non-ethnic forms of collective identity, such as villages, and that investigates how individual origins and social memory shape civic and political participation.

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Cultural and Technological Retrospectives of the Coliva in the Republic of Moldova

Global Journal of Human-Social Science ◽

10.34257/gjhsscvol20is10pg1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Rodica Siminiuc ◽

Dinu Țurcanu ◽

Daniela Pojar ◽

Rodica Cujba ◽

Viorica Cazac ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cultural Change ◽

Collective Identity ◽

Eastern Orthodox ◽

Orthodox Church ◽

Local Identity ◽

Traditional Foods ◽

Republic Of Moldova ◽

Shared Experiences ◽

The Republic ◽

Social Environmental

Food traditions were created and shaped by the contacts between cultures that met, overlapped and mixed in a history made up of habits, knowledge, specificities, shared experiences that build the personal and collective identity of each people and from which it nourishes the feeling of "pride of belonging". Thus, traditional foods play an important role in local identity, consumer behavior, the transfer of cultural heritage for future generations and the interaction of this heritage with the rest of the world. Coliva is a traditional dish based on boiled wheat that is used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox Church for commemorations of the dead. The purpose of this paper is to capitalize on and promote the coliva as a traditional culinary product of the Republic of Moldova and as a tool for communicating the identity values of a people. Over time, the coliva has become the expression of culture, the object and subject of cultural change, a condensate of social, environmental, historical and religious values.

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Everyday Interactions of Old Believers with Adherents of Different Faiths: Current Prohibitions and Prescriptions in Texts and Practices

Slavic & Jewish Cultures Dialogue Similarities Differences ◽

10.31168/2658-3356.2018.11 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 149-166

Author(s):

Natalia Dushakova

Keyword(s):

Sociocultural Context ◽

Old Believers ◽

Republic Of Moldova ◽

Empirical Basis ◽

Verbal Rules ◽

The Republic ◽

Real Practice ◽

Everyday Communication ◽

The Way

The article analyzes verbal rules regulating everyday communication of the Old Believers with adherents of new-style Orthodoxy (often called Nikonians) and Jews as well as the way these rules are being put into practice. The author pays attention to personal interpretations of motivating prescriptions and explanations of the necessity to violate the norms in different situations. The empirical basis of the research includes interviews recorded in 2010–2017 in the communities of the Old Believers in the Republic of Moldova, including Transnistria. Field materials demonstrate that a lot of instructions only function in the form of knowledge about the rules, not necessarily followed by real practice. At the same time communities constantly elaborate ways of mitigating the rules, eliminating the consequences of their violation up to changing the rules, adapting them to the sociocultural context.

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Longhorn beetles in the entomological collections of the Republic of Moldova (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Folia Entomologica Hungarica ◽

10.17112/foliaenthung.2020.81.43 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 81 ◽

pp. 43-72

Author(s):

Svetlana Bacal ◽

Daniela Burduja ◽

Galina Buşmachiu ◽

Cristina Cebotari ◽

Ottó Merkl

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Plant Protection ◽

The State ◽

Capital City ◽

National Museum ◽

State University ◽

Republic Of Moldova ◽

Longhorn Beetles ◽

The Republic ◽

First Time

The first inventory of Cerambycidae species kept in the collections of the Republic of Moldova is presented. A total of 121 species belonging to 60 genera and 6 subfamilies is listed, of them 5 are cited for the first time in the country. The specimens were collected between 1912 and 2019 and are kept in four entomological collections in the capital city Chişinau: the Museum of Entomology, the Institute of Zoology, the Museum of the Institute of Genetics, Physiology and Plant Protection, the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History and the Museum of the State University of Moldova. The list of Cerambycidae species known to occur in Moldova has been expanded to 148 species.

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Post-election political government partnerships in the Republic of Moldova: between desiderates and realities

Review of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Sciences ◽

10.53783/18572294.21.185.05 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 50-74

Author(s):

Pantelimon Varzari ◽

Keyword(s):

Common Interest ◽

Political Elites ◽

Republic Of Moldova ◽

Political Reason ◽

Consolidated Democracy ◽

The Republic ◽

Political Game

The article examines some topics regarding the establishment, functionality and viability of the twelve governing coalitions that alternated in the Republic of Moldova in 1994– 2020. Particular attention is paid to the issue of forming a governing post-election parliamentary majority, based on political reason and substantial procedural consensus. The latter presupposes agreement on a set of procedures when taking decisions of common interest. It is concluded that the convergence of elites (coalition, alliance, partnership and other political collaboration arrangements for respecting the democratic political game) is a way of working of political elites and involves, in fact, a substantial transformation of unconsolidated democracy into a functioning, consolidated democracy.

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