Deforestation in Romania
This project originates in 2016, when I first learned about Ikea becoming the largest private owner of Romanian old-growth forests. Since 2019, I have been interviewing activists, forest rangers, employees of Romsilva (the Romanian state's forest management company), biologists, furniture factory owners, politicians, and members of local communities affected by the destruction of old-growth forests in the Carpathians. I have presented my research at academic and activist conferences and participated in activist projects.
Articles in Process and Conference Presentations
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Nachescu, Ileana. “Romania’s Old Growth Forests and European Union Membership: Challenges and Opportunities” Environmental History (under review).
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Review of Ecocide in Ukraine by Darya Tsymbalyuk (Polity, 2025), Ecozona (under review).
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Panel organizers and presenter, “Memory, Ignorance, and Forgetting: Recent Environmental Histories of Romania and Former Yugoslavia”, ASEEES 57th Annual Convention, 23-25 November 2025.
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“Rethinking Liberation against Ecological Disaster: The Destruction of Romanian Old-Growth Forests,” ASEEES Convention online, October 17, 2024.
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“Epistemologies of (South)east Europe,” ASEEES Convention online, 19 October 2023.
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“Rethinking Europe from an Eastern European perspective: Migration, Ecofeminism, Postsocialism,” The Idea and Futures of Europe, A Workshop, 23-25 May 2022, Siena, Italy.
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“Ending the Destruction of Romanian Old-Growth Forests: A Democratic Solution?” Council for European Studies, 28th International Conference of Europeanists, Lisbon, Portugal, June 29, 2022.
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“Rethinking History when Facing Ecological Destruction: Protecting the Romanian Old Growth Forests,” Sixth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies (Tartu, Estonia), 13 June, 2021.
