Romanian Eugenic Sub-Culture and the Allure of Biopolitics, 1918–39

• Authors: Marius Turda
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

By the late 1920s a considerable body of eugenic literature in Romanian, Hungarian and German had been produced in Romania, illustrating the growing importance afforded to science and evolutionary theories of human improvement in this country. Engaging with this literature, this article investigates the emergence of a Romanian sub-culture in Transylvania and the Banat, sanctioned through eugenics and biopolitics, and promoted by cultural associations and prominent intellectuals and politicians. In so doing, this article contributes not only to a new appraisal of the relationship between ethnic minorities and majorities in interwar Romania, but also to a new understanding of the ways in which eugenics and biopolitics were harnessed to Romanian narratives of nation-building during the interwar period.

Keywords

PL

sub-culture; eugenics; biopolitics; interwar Romania; Transylvania and the Banat

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 114

Dates

published

2016

online

2016-12-01

Contributors

author

Marius Turda

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/APH.2016.114.02