Razvan Papasima

Enthusiast and focused researcher dedicated to innovative, dynamic and interdisciplinary work. Successful at maintaining accuracy and productivity through long and short-term projects with proven history of efficiency. Extensive knowledge of Anthropology and Science and Technology research methodology and skilled in archival research.

• "Land for all". A comparative analysis of land capitalisation and assetization strategies in a village in the Oltenia region (2023). Conference: Mobilities, land use and ecological crises in Europe’s peripheries (Hosman/Hosmengen, 14 th of September 2023)
• About the Modes of Existence of Technical Entities (2023). Why Technology Needs Anthropologists? Shaping a Sustainable and Human-Centred Tech World Satellite Event WWNA Applied Anthropology Network, EASA, Bucharest, October 2023
• From Commons to Commodity and Back Again (2022) - Paper presented at - Transformation, Hope and the Commons.the 17th EASA2022 biennial conference
• Property as claim. An ethnographic account from the National Anticorruption Directorate files (2019) - Paper presented at 17th International “Border Crossings” Student Conference 11-14 April 2019, Bucharest.
• From Start-Up to Class Up. Constructing a new middle class in post-socialist Romania (2017) - Conference ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CLASS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, Organized by Department of Sociology, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) Bucharest & The Romanian Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology (SASC)
• The banalization of security agents presence in Bucharest supermarkets (2014) - Paper presented at 11th Annual Conference Of The Romanian Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology NOVEMBER 21ST-22ND / CLUJ, Romania 2014

• Papasima, R., & Iorga, A. (2024). The making of modern Sheep. Martor Journal, forthcoming.
• Papasima, R. (2023) From Commons to Commodity and Back Again: Football’s Great Transformation in Post-socialist Romania, in Wojtaszyn, D., Melicharek, M. (eds.) Football in the Balkans I. (pp. 33-57) Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers.
• Papasima, R. (2021) What does digital transformation and automation mean for the future of work in Romania’s banking sector? in Dirksen, U., & Herberg, M. (Eds.) Trade Unions in transformation 4.0: Stories of Unions Confronting the New World of Work, p 26-32.

Other publications: 

• Papasima, R. (2024) Pământul rău. Deșertificarea ca blocaj tehno-economic și legătura dintre climă și conflictul social/Bad Earth. Desertification as a techno-economic lock-in and the relation between climate and social conflict, CriticAtac, https://www.criticatac.ro/pamantul-rau-desertificarea-ca-blocaj-tehno-economic-si-legatura-dintre-clima-si-conflictul-social
• Papasima, R (2023) Rețelele consolării. Scurtă incursiune în modul de existență în-durere (Consolation networks. A brief descent into the mode of existence in grief), Dilema Veche nr. 981 din 26 ianuarie – 1 februarie 2023
• Papasima, R (2022) The ANRP entanglement. Did you say restitution or capitalization?. The Academic Quarter. https://antropedia.com/sfertulacademic/razvan-papasima-incurcatura-anrp-ati-spus-restituire-sau-capitalizare/
• Papasima, R (2021) Whose "track record"? Quasi-objects and value struggles. The Academic Quarter. https://antropedia.com/sfertulacademic/razvan-papasima/
• Papasima, R (2020) N-am fost niciodată eco. Critica egologiei (a)politice. We've never been eco. Critique of (a)political egology, Dilema Veche nr. 868 din 26 noiembrie - 2 decembrie 2020. https://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/tema-saptamanii/n-am-fost-niciodata-eco-critica-egologiei-631569.html
• Papasima, R (2020) Unde a dispărut viitorul? Practici nostalgice și crearea sensului în satele de pe Valea Hîrtibaciului (Where The Future Has Disappeared? Nostalgic practices and the creation of meaning in the villages of the Hîrtibaci Valley), Dilema Veche nr. 829 din 9 - 15 ianuarie 2020
• Papasima, R (2019) Marx și brava lume nouă a 'luptei de sexe'… dar, totuși, de clasă, Dilema Veche nr. 801 din 27 iunie – 3 iulie 2019, https://www.dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/tema-saptamanii/articol/marx-si-brava-lume-noua-a-lupteidesexe-dar-totusi-de-clasa
• Papasima, R (2018) Agenții „gospodari“ și paradoxul insecurității securității, Dilema Veche nr. 747 din 14-20 iunie 2018, http://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/tema-saptamanii/articol/agentii-gospodari-si-paradoxul-insecuritatii-securitatii
• Papasima, R (2018) Deochiul, Invidia și capra care pune ordine în lume, Dilema Veche nr. 772 din 6-12 decembrie 2018, https://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/tema-saptamanii/articol/deochiul-invidia-si-capra-care-pune-ordine-in-lume

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• Orcid: 0000-0002-8339-3457

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• Date of Birth: 07/18/77
• Nationality: Română