Revanchism, misrecognition, and spatial configurations: capital integration and the electoral geography of Romania’s cancelled 2024 elections

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104408

Norbert Petrovici , Florin Poenaru

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Abstract

This article examines how territorial inequalities shaped electoral options in Romania in the annulled 2024 presidential elections. Anti-systemic mobilisation did not emerge from deindustrialised or economically ‘left-behind’ zones, but, we argue, from regions of domestic-led industrial growth embedded in broader territories dominated by foreign capital. These localities, central to production yet marginal in national imaginaries and policy voice, illustrate a condition we define as blocked centrality, the disjunction between economic contribution and political incorporation within advanced peripheral economies. Here, foreign direct investment structures accumulation and governance, while domestic production enclaves remain symbolically excluded. Methodologically, the study proposes a multi-stage spatial modelling strategy combining spatial error models, seemingly unrelated regressions, and principal component analysis. This approach operationalises symbolic misrecognition as a spatial mismatch between structural participation and representational visibility. The results challenge binary framings of growth vs. decline and urban vs. rural. Revanchist mobilisation is shown to stem not from economic abandonment, contributing to debates on peripheral capitalism, political blocs, and the spatial politics of recognition in Europe’s advanced peripheries.

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复仇主义、误认和空间配置：罗马尼亚取消2024年选举的资本整合和选举地理

本文探讨了罗马尼亚在2024年被废除的总统选举中，领土不平等如何影响选举选择。我们认为，反系统性动员并非出现在去工业化或经济上“落后”的地区，而是出现在国内主导的工业增长嵌入外国资本主导的更广泛领域的地区。这些地方是生产的中心，但在国家想象和政策声音中处于边缘地位，它们说明了一种我们称之为“闭塞的中心性”的情况，即在发达的外围经济体中，经济贡献与政治结合之间的脱节。在这里，外国直接投资构建了积累和治理，而国内生产飞地仍被象征性地排除在外。在方法上，研究提出了一种结合空间误差模型、看似不相关的回归和主成分分析的多阶段空间建模策略。这种方法将符号误认作为结构参与和代表性可见性之间的空间不匹配进行操作。研究结果挑战了增长与衰退、城市与农村的二元框架。复仇主义的动员并非源于经济上的放弃，而是促成了关于欧洲先进边缘资本主义、政治集团和空间承认政治的辩论。

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Geoforum GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

5.70%

发文量

201

期刊介绍： Geoforum is an international, inter-disciplinary journal, global in outlook, and integrative in approach. The broad focus of Geoforum is the organisation of economic, political, social and environmental systems through space and over time. Areas of study range from the analysis of the global political economy and environment, through national systems of regulation and governance, to urban and regional development, local economic and urban planning and resources management. The journal also includes a Critical Review section which features critical assessments of research in all the above areas.