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European Neighborhood
NEIGHBOURHOOD AND DEMOCRACY
Gabriel Badescu, PhD, Babes Bolyai University , Cluj – Napoca, Political Science Department
How is European Neighborhood defined in democratic societies compared to the developing countries?

"Contemporary Neighborhood"
Ephemerity of closeness and perenity of distance in vicinity
Silviu Totelecan, PhD , Researcher within the Socio – Human Research Department of the „George Baritiu” History Institute, Cluj-Napoca
A socio-spatial entity populated by a diversity of human types (natives and new-comers), a starting point for a unitary community space and at the same time the place where it comes apart, vicinity is simultaneously the domain of: social cohesion, exchange and mutual support, indifference, relationships between the “absent” ones, etc. Transition from the local to the global village makes this term, traditionally situated between here and there, to exclude itself from the connotations based on the classical understanding of “closeness” (physically and socially), by taking into account trans and non-local themes.

video screening

Key words defining vicinity
Workgroups of 7 – 12 people. Facilitator: Istvan Szakats

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Neighborhood – A Different Type Of Space
"UNLIKELY NEIGHBORHOODS"
CIPRIAN MIHALI, PHD, Philosophy Department of the History and Philosphy Faculty, „Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca
In our post-modern societies, in which the distinction between public and private seems to be increasingly useless, vicinity seems to account for the confusion and for the essential difficulties of this distinction. Neither public or private, vicinity is public in the sense that it is where meetings take place (wated, random or forced) with the others, and it is private as far as – again wanted, random or forced – the other can invade my intimacy or, in reverse, I can step inside the territory of his most private life. If today we admit that this distinction is less and less operational, at least in the space and topographic sense, then we need to ask ourselves to what extent vicinity itself stops functioning in the domain of space, and ends up determining or indetermining itself in new meanings, left to be explored in their entirety.

Contemporary Neighborhood
"Attendance"
Emilian Cioc, PhD student, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca,
The use of the notion of neighborhood is proof for the effort of rethinking community as a concept, even more so after the social failure of patterns of mobilisation such as communism, or functionalisation, and making available for the exchange and production practices, as happens in the liberal market societies. As the bearer of such hopes linked to community, vicinity requires a close reding meant to expose its presuppositions, its specific articulation contexts, its relationships with notions such as proximity, belonging of cohesion, but also the limits that is entails as a possible model of social construction.

Neighborhood – daily practice of social values
Round table. Moderator: Rarita Szakats