Nikolay Mintchev
Biographic Data
| ID | 326549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikolay Mintchev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikolay |
| FAMILY NAME | Mintchev |
| SIGNATURE | MINTCHEV N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5818-2789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Don’t stop drawing, don’t stop research
The devastation and mass killing caused by Israel’s war on Gaza have created an overwhelming sense of helplessness for those committed to peace, freedom and justice for Palestine. The indiscriminate killing of civilians has been perpetrated on a scale that amounts to genocide, according to a 2024 report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur. This is unfolding before our eyes as we watch the news on our screens, but there is little we can do to…
Genocide, complicity, and the debasement of political discourse
Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza, and most Western governments have so far remained complicit or complacent. This article addresses one particular aspect of the structure of complicity and justification of Israeli war crimes – the debasement of political discourse, particularly with regard to claims of self-defence and certain cases of allegations of antisemitism. In the first case, the article argues that selective application of the la…
Citizen Social Science for Improved Quality of Life
This article argues for a new methodological approach to research and impact in the social sciences—one based on sustained investment in people and projects at the community level, with the explicit aim of creating citizen-led solutions. The article draws on five years of experience in developing a citizen science methodology in Beirut, Lebanon, in which collaboration between academic researchers and citizen scientists has generated citizen-led i…
Understanding Prosperity in Contemporary Debates
This article gives an account of the basic cognition/knowledge that ordinary English speakers need in order to understand the meaning of prosperity and engage with contemporary debates on the topic. The concept of prosperity is widely used for critiquing economic growth and developing new visions of progress that aim to improve quality of life for people and planet. A key argument in this conversation is that we need to ‘redefine prosperity’ away…
What does it mean to redefine prosperity? A theory of definition for pathways to sustainable futures
There is a growing body of literature arguing that we need to redefine prosperity -to move away from prosperity as economic wealth, and towards a new definition as quality of life for people and planet.While much work has been done on theories and methods for building sustainable prosperity, the process of redefinition at the level of meaning has received significantly less attention.Current arguments for redefining prosperity do not have a theor…
Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century
Sustained Citizen Science From Research to Solutions
Participatory research offers a valuable opportunity for collaboration between universities and citizens. It allows people with diverse educational and professional trajectories outside of academia to become partners in the research process, leading to multiple positive outcomes such as enhanced capacity building, contextually sensitive research design, and effective dissemination of findings. The chain of activities in the standard version of pa…
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity
This article argues for a citizen social science methodology in which residents from the sites of inquiry play a central role in key activities of the research process and beyond: research design and data collection, presentation and publication of findings, and design and implementation of urban interventions that address challenges to quality of life. This is a way of democratising the research process through sustained engagement with communit…
The cultural politics of racism in the Brexit conjuncture
Critiques of racism figure prominently in debates about Brexit’s causes and consequences. But while racism is often theorized in its social and political dimensions, it has received little attention as a concept that has become entangled in a cycle of contestations, denials and affirmations. By looking at racism’s conceptual dimension, with its multiple contested meanings, this article examines the impact that racism-related critiques and counter…
Brexit’s identity politics and the question of subjectivity
Super-diversity and the prosperous society
This article asks if and under what conditions ethnic diversity could become the foundation for a prosperous society. Recent studies on ethnic diversity and social cohesion suggest that diversity has a negative effect on social cohesion and therefore is detrimental to the social prosperity of individuals and communities. This article argues that although such a negative correlation may apply to contexts with well-consolidated ethnic groups, it do…
Community and prosperity beyond social capital
Researchers and policymakers working on prosperity, happiness and wellbeing in the UK have recently reworked GDP-centred notions of progress and identified community and belonging as major determinants of a good life. The dominant notion of community in most writing on this topic draws on Putnam’s work on social capital as measured by trust and/or civic engagement. This approach, however, captures only the social aspect of community, without addr…
Sustained Citizen Science From Research to Solutions
Participatory research offers a valuable opportunity for collaboration between universities and citizens. It allows people with diverse educational and professional trajectories outside of academia to become partners in the research process, leading to multiple positive outcomes such as enhanced capacity building, contextually sensitive research design, and effective dissemination of findings. The chain of activities in the standard version of pa…
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity
This article argues for a citizen social science methodology in which residents from the sites of inquiry play a central role in key activities of the research process and beyond: research design and data collection, presentation and publication of findings, and design and implementation of urban interventions that address challenges to quality of life. This is a way of democratising the research process through sustained engagement with communit…
The cultural politics of racism in the Brexit conjuncture
Critiques of racism figure prominently in debates about Brexit’s causes and consequences. But while racism is often theorized in its social and political dimensions, it has received little attention as a concept that has become entangled in a cycle of contestations, denials and affirmations. By looking at racism’s conceptual dimension, with its multiple contested meanings, this article examines the impact that racism-related critiques and counter…
Super-diversity and the prosperous society
This article asks if and under what conditions ethnic diversity could become the foundation for a prosperous society. Recent studies on ethnic diversity and social cohesion suggest that diversity has a negative effect on social cohesion and therefore is detrimental to the social prosperity of individuals and communities. This article argues that although such a negative correlation may apply to contexts with well-consolidated ethnic groups, it do…
Community and prosperity beyond social capital
Researchers and policymakers working on prosperity, happiness and wellbeing in the UK have recently reworked GDP-centred notions of progress and identified community and belonging as major determinants of a good life. The dominant notion of community in most writing on this topic draws on Putnam’s work on social capital as measured by trust and/or civic engagement. This approach, however, captures only the social aspect of community, without addr…
Super-diversity and the prosperous society
This article asks if and under what conditions ethnic diversity could become the foundation for a prosperous society. Recent studies on ethnic diversity and social cohesion suggest that diversity has a negative effect on social cohesion and therefore is detrimental to the social prosperity of individuals and communities. This article argues that although such a negative correlation may apply to contexts with well-consolidated ethnic groups, it do…
Brexit’s identity politics and the question of subjectivity
The cultural politics of racism in the Brexit conjuncture
Critiques of racism figure prominently in debates about Brexit’s causes and consequences. But while racism is often theorized in its social and political dimensions, it has received little attention as a concept that has become entangled in a cycle of contestations, denials and affirmations. By looking at racism’s conceptual dimension, with its multiple contested meanings, this article examines the impact that racism-related critiques and counter…
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity
This article argues for a citizen social science methodology in which residents from the sites of inquiry play a central role in key activities of the research process and beyond: research design and data collection, presentation and publication of findings, and design and implementation of urban interventions that address challenges to quality of life. This is a way of democratising the research process through sustained engagement with communit…
Sustained Citizen Science From Research to Solutions
Participatory research offers a valuable opportunity for collaboration between universities and citizens. It allows people with diverse educational and professional trajectories outside of academia to become partners in the research process, leading to multiple positive outcomes such as enhanced capacity building, contextually sensitive research design, and effective dissemination of findings. The chain of activities in the standard version of pa…
Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century
What does it mean to redefine prosperity? A theory of definition for pathways to sustainable futures
There is a growing body of literature arguing that we need to redefine prosperity -to move away from prosperity as economic wealth, and towards a new definition as quality of life for people and planet.While much work has been done on theories and methods for building sustainable prosperity, the process of redefinition at the level of meaning has received significantly less attention.Current arguments for redefining prosperity do not have a theor…
Citizen Social Science for Improved Quality of Life
This article argues for a new methodological approach to research and impact in the social sciences—one based on sustained investment in people and projects at the community level, with the explicit aim of creating citizen-led solutions. The article draws on five years of experience in developing a citizen science methodology in Beirut, Lebanon, in which collaboration between academic researchers and citizen scientists has generated citizen-led i…
Understanding Prosperity in Contemporary Debates
This article gives an account of the basic cognition/knowledge that ordinary English speakers need in order to understand the meaning of prosperity and engage with contemporary debates on the topic. The concept of prosperity is widely used for critiquing economic growth and developing new visions of progress that aim to improve quality of life for people and planet. A key argument in this conversation is that we need to ‘redefine prosperity’ away…
Don’t stop drawing, don’t stop research
The devastation and mass killing caused by Israel’s war on Gaza have created an overwhelming sense of helplessness for those committed to peace, freedom and justice for Palestine. The indiscriminate killing of civilians has been perpetrated on a scale that amounts to genocide, according to a 2024 report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur. This is unfolding before our eyes as we watch the news on our screens, but there is little we can do to…
Genocide, complicity, and the debasement of political discourse
Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza, and most Western governments have so far remained complicit or complacent. This article addresses one particular aspect of the structure of complicity and justification of Israeli war crimes – the debasement of political discourse, particularly with regard to claims of self-defence and certain cases of allegations of antisemitism. In the first case, the article argues that selective application of the la…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Prosperity (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)