Education, propaganda, and visual discourse in socialist Romania (1948–1989).
The official discourse during the communist regime in Romania (1948–1989) has not been paid much attention by researchers and the official visual discourse, addressing adults and children, even less so. My study aims to address this research gap and identify the identity markers of the Romanian terr...
| Publicado en: | Paedagogica Historica Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 600 - 629 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2026
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=195679982&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 195679982 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00309230 J54 jtl: Paedagogica Historica issn: 00309230 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2026 vid: 62 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 195679982 10.1080/00309230.2024.2411301 ppf: 600 ppct: 29 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 31.9MB tig: atl: Education, propaganda, and visual discourse in socialist Romania (1948–1989). aug: au: Ilovan, Oana-Ramona affil: Department of Regional Geography and Territorial Planning, Faculty of Geography, and Territorial Identities and Development Research Centre, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania su: Communist education Geography Textbooks Postcards Comic books, strips, etc. Romania sug: subj: Romania Communist education Geography Textbooks Postcards Comic books, strips, etc. keyword: comics geography textbooks picture postcards territorial identity visual representations ab: The official discourse during the communist regime in Romania (1948–1989) has not been paid much attention by researchers and the official visual discourse, addressing adults and children, even less so. My study aims to address this research gap and identify the identity markers of the Romanian territory during socialism by exploring spatial representations and the territorial identity that were produced through official visual imagery. Using qualitative discourse analysis and critical visual methodology, I analyse the visual construction, through discourse, of themes and places created starting with the 1950s and were featured repeatedly during the 1970s and 1980s Romania (the period of national communism), and which constructed and highlighted traits of the country's territorial identity. To achieve the research aim, I explore three types of research materials and ways of realising spatial education and socialisation through (propaganda) images or a visual pedagogy of space: (1) photographs in three textbooks about the Geography of Romania – a tool in educating people's representations of their homeland, (2) official (state-produced and distributed) picture postcards reflecting progress during socialist Romania, and (3) comics about work and class identities in Cutezătorii [The Daring Ones] youth magazine – a tool in the edutainment of Romanian communist pioneers. These three official visual discourses were part of a coherent cultural visual discourse about the socialist nation, pervading representations about Romania, about its urban area, and about who the Romanians were meant to have been. This plural discourse was constructed through the visual intertextuality of these three widely distributed media. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Paedagogica Historica is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Paedagogica Historica holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2026 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|