Pratiques de la coexistence en milieu multiethnique transylvain et nouvelles mobilisations régionales
Pratiques de la coexistence en milieu multiethnique transylvain et nouvelles mobilisations régionales

Summary/Abstract: With its dispute about territory between the local Romanian and Hungarian elites, which is also a sensitive issue between the neighbour states, Transylvania has been studied most often from the perspective of ethnic identity construction and nationalism. Before the background of the production of two competing symbolic nationalisms, Transylvania today is going through a process of territorial “renewal” where the transnational and European factors play a central role. Globalization translates into the rebirth of regional identity politics, a process that is also visible in other countries in Central and South-East Europe. The emergence of regional phenomena which are here analysed on the example of Cluj-Napoca, must be placed first of all in the context of the historical cohabitation or “coexistence”, i. e., the tendency (of both Romanians and Hungarians) to “ethicise” the social, cultural, economic, and political networks. By taking the “Provincia” (Province) initiative as an example, the paper analyses this revival of regionalism from the point of view of the territorial concepts on which it is based. While in some regards it helps overcome the existing nationalisms, this new regionalism also introduces new forms of exclusion based not on “blood communities” but on “soil communities”

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