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作者

Filip Alexandrescu;Ionuț-Marian Anghel;Júlia Adorjáni;Lucrina Ștefănescu;Alina Pop;Anca Mihai

来源

CITIES,Vol.114,Issue1,Article 103201

语言

英文

关键字

Gentrification;Expulsion;Ghetto/slum areas;Romania;Urban areas;Right to the city

作者单位

Research Institute for the Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, Bucharest 050711, Romania;Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, B-dul 21 Decembrie 1989 nr. 128, Cluj Napoca 400604, Romania;Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeș-Bolyai University, Str. Fântânele nr. 30, Cluj Napoca 400294, Romania;Department of Communication Sciences, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Splaiul Unirii nr. 176, Bucharest 040438, Romania;Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bd. Schitu Magureanu 9, Bucharest 010181, Romania;Research Institute for the Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, Bucharest 050711, Romania;Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, B-dul 21 Decembrie 1989 nr. 128, Cluj Napoca 400604, Romania;Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeș-Bolyai University, Str. Fântânele nr. 30, Cluj Napoca 400294, Romania;Department of Communication Sciences, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Splaiul Unirii nr. 176, Bucharest 040438, Romania;Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bd. Schitu Magureanu 9, Bucharest 010181, Romania

摘要

This paper joins the growing scholarly concern for the sharpening of social and environmental inequalities in European cities, particularly those generated in Eastern Europe by evictions of poor Roma from inner-city areas and by the invisibilization of their extreme conditions. We argue that these processes – evictions and invisibilizations – create a heightened vulnerability to climate change impacts for these individuals. The paper uses secondary survey data on compact Roma groups in Romania and analyses qualitative and cartographic information collected by the authors (2019) in two mid-sized cities in Romania to flesh out the particular slum ecologies that emerge following evictions. The focus is also on the subtle processes of invisibilization that render displaced Roma vulnerable and rob them of the “right to the city” in terms of climate change adaptation. Our finding is that evicted Roma experience innumerable, “routine” weather-related impacts, such as floods, storms or cold. By exploring Roma's heightened exposure, sensitivity and reduced adaptive capacity, we show how these impacts increase their vulnerability to future extreme weather events. These findings are indicative of a broader process of fragmentation taking place in urban areas throughout Eastern Europe, which render invisible some very real barriers to climate change adaptation.