Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Keywords: dispossession, racialisation, Roma people, assemblage, planning, Eastern Europe. This paper is situated within an aleea called Livezilor, in Bucharest.
Raluca was living in and out of these blocs. When I first met her, she was working the streets of Ferentari, the neighbourhood where Aleea Livezilor can be found. Short, pointed questions, to which she replied with short, pointed answers. The only other time I met her again was two weeks after this episode.
It was a cold morning and she was waiting near the Caracuda centre. I approached her. She was clearly in pain, barely able to talk or stand. When Bodgdan and the doctor came, she was medicated and cared for, and they urged her to visit a hospital immediately. Raluca never went to the hospital. She had no medical insurance and, very likely, no ID either. Yet, their unfolding and structuration is always a situated affair, which I aim to investigate in this paper by staying close to Bucharest and its discontinuous contemporary history.
Lifelines in Aleea Livezilor, source: the author [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary. The question to ask is around what it means to inhabit dispossession in Bucharest.
It is the assemblage of affective and political economies that, aligned in a certain way, diagrammed in a certain manner, allow for a particular affirmation of life and inhabitation to persist and to be reproduced through time and space.
