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Mr. Remus Cretan

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Professor - UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Researcher | Teaching staff | Scientific reviewer | PhD supervisor

Remus Cretan is Professor of Human Geography at West University of Timisoara, Romania. Remus's recent research includes urban, regional and cultural geographies, more specifically he has studied economic geography, historical geographies, place naming, urban tourism (museum, souvenir selling and changes in destination tourism) and environmental politics in Central and Eastern Europe. His key topics are geographies of inequality (e.g. social marginalization and stigmatization, social risk) and issues connected to development studies. Previous work has appeared in journals such as International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Geography, Cities, Area, Environmental Politics and Identities. He has reviewed academic papers for Political Geography, Urban Studies, British Journal of Sociology, Cities, Sustainable Cities and Society, Area, Identities, and so on.

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Curriculum Vitae (08/06/2024)

Expertise & keywords

Social spatial diffusion and the regional impact of NGOs in the European Capitals of Culture 2021 (CC2021) Timișoara and Novi Sad Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare Postdoctorală
PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0274 2020 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: https://novitim.projects.uvt.ro/

Abstract:

The aim of our project is to analyse the social spatial diffusion and the regional impact of NGOs in the European Capitals of Culture 2021 Timișoara and Novi Sad. The specific objectives of this study are:

O1: to analyse the spatial diffusion of the NGOs acting in the field of culture, in the regions of Timisoara (Banat) and Novi Sad (Vojvodina) in the year 2021;

O2: to estimate the area of cultural influence of Timisoara and Novi Sad on their regions, via the spectrum NGOs activities;

O3: to measure the impact of the cultural NGOs actives in 2021 in Timișoara and Novi Sad upon the transfiguration of the urban public spaces;

O4: to evaluate the spatial magnetism of the Capital of Culture 2021 events developed by NGOs at regional level.

Following, these objectives, we propose four hypothesis:

H1: The spatial diffusion of cultural NGOs is gradually decreasing from the regional poles to the peripheral areas;

H2: the medium-sized towns and the rural area are facing a lack of initiatives and resources, becoming dependent on the regional poles “export” of cultural activities;

H3: The NGOs in Timisoara and Novi Sad prefer to revive forgotten spaces, in contrast to already consecrated cultural spaces;

H4: The NGOs’ activities attract two opposite spheres: the local and the international public, but the regional public is missing.

The implementation of the objectives brings the following innovative instruments:

- an analysis of the implementation of cultural NGOs activities in two different governance systems;

- a quantifiable overview of the cultural NGOs on the regional map, aiming to stress on the desertification of cultural effervescence in the smaller towns and in rural areas;

- it maps the alternative/creative or reconverted urban spaces and point the available spaces (”cultural physical stock”) for future cultural activities

- two GIS methods to estimate the spatial regional diffusion indices of the NGOs and the cultural magnetism of the cities.

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