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The Life that Riots: Spontaneous Rewilding in Socialist Ruins explores the spontaneous rewilding process in the socialist ruins of the islands of the Lower Danube. The paper attempts to better theorize spontaneous rewilding as a process taking place in spaces which can be categorized as political, institutional and economic interstices.

Stefan Dorondel is a Lead Researcher at the Francisc Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest and at the Institute for Southeast European Studies of the Romanian Academy. Dorondel is currently guest professor at the University of Vienna. He is an anthropologist/environmental historian interested in river history, the social analysis of wetlands, soil, mud and sand and fascinated by rewilding and ecological restoration projects. His latest volume (with Stelu Serban): A New Ecological Order. Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe (Pittsburgh University Press, 2022).

This event is organized within the research group Environmental Humanities supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI – UEFISCDI, project number PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ORG-2023-0055, within PNCDI IV and hosted by New Europe College.