Florin Poenaru

Florin Poenaru is an anthropologist and co-editor of CriticAtac, a Romanian left-wing platform. He works on issues of class and post-communism.

Central and Eastern Europe

Street Protests in Romania: What Lurks Beyond the Headlines

The Romanian Government made the decision to pass an urgency decree in order to make changes to the Penal Code. Why are 300,000 people protesting against this decison?

Florin PoenaruFebruary 6, 2017, 1:05 pmMay 11, 2017

European Union

The Poor Must Die!

In Romania, measures to postpone the increase of the minimum wage signal an approach to poverty specific to the new government.

Florin PoenaruFebruary 3, 2016, 10:39 amFebruary 3, 2016

Life in Skoda’s Factory Town

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Czechia loses a voice, a university tries to lose its voice, and the PM voices a complaint

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Moving a statue the Czech way

The Future of European Gender Politics

Orbán sides with Erdoğan against the thousands of Hungarians protesting in solidarity with Rojava

Behind Viktor Orbán’s Surprise Defeat

Doomed to Failure: Orban’s neoconservative family policies in Hungary

Pockets of resistance in Orbán’s Hungary

Poland’s Changing Climate Activists

Under Attack: Reproductive Rights in Poland

Hope and Fear in LGBT Poland

Political Cynicism: The Case of Poland

Poland’s Future: A view from the countryside

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Slovakia: Restricted cinema in the era of economic transformation

The White Dream of Marian Kotleba

Where are you going, Slovakia?

BLACK CLOUD – KYIV BIENNIAL 2019

What Europe Does Ukraine need?

Different languages and symbols but still our common fight

A New Lexicon for a New International

Against National Vigilante

Florin Poenaru

The Poor Must Die!