Mirela Ivanova
Biographic Data
| ID | 5746730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mirela Ivanova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mirela |
| FAMILY NAME | Ivanova |
| SIGNATURE | IVANOVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0528-7752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Fatalist–Voluntarist Tension
Reification re-specified
Against broader readings that extend reification across different social spheres, this article argues that the concept gains analytical precision when anchored in the economic fabric of society. It understands reification as arising from capitalist societalisation mediated by the commodity form. The concept designates a double form of power: first, the impersonal and abstract power generated by commodity-mediated relations; and second, the ideolo…
Alienation in the Algorithmic Labour of Search Engine Optimisation Specialists
The study examines alienation in the labouring activity of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) specialists and probes the role of Google's algorithm in these experiences. Drawing on qualitative interviews, it identifies two forms of alienation. The first form involves powerlessness and insecurity due to managerial control by objectives, making employees responsible for influencing an algorithm beyond their control. The second form, occupational stat…
Building the Future? Software Workers’ Imaginaries of Technology
This article investigates an actor’s perspective on digital capitalism. We study software workers’ orientations towards their work by focusing on the social use value they attribute to it. The concept of use value allows us to examine the contradictions software workers might experience in digital capitalism. Drawing on the literature on the control of software workers and the New Spirit of Digital Capitalism, we identify hindrances to the worker…
A Qualitative Investigation into the Experiences of Students with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD/Dyspraxia) in Higher Education
Developmental coordination disorder (DCD/Dyspraxia) is a commonly misunderstood and under-recognized specific learning difficulty (SpLD) in educational settings. This lifelong condition affects fine and gross motor coordination and significantly interferes with many activities of daily living, academic achievement, and employment opportunities. However, most Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are unaware of its prevalence within their context, …
The Politics of Byzantine Studies
Byzantine studies is neither the oldest nor the largest of the historical disciplines, but it is among the oddest.Its peculiarities, however, are rarely discussed by its practitioners, nor have they been much noted by intellectual historians.The appearance in recent years of multiple book-length studies of the discipline and its histories is therefore welcome.The quality of the three works here reviewed is such that each simultaneously complement…
Inventing and ethnicising Slavonic in the long ninth century
This article situates the scholarship on the invention of the Slavonic alphabet within the discipline of literacy studies practised in Western medieval contexts. In so doing it identifies some of the methodological assumptions that have shaped the study of the invention of Slavonic, and proposes a new reading of the invention and ethnicisation of the alphabet, from a new methodological starting point. It demonstrates that the ethnicisation of Sla…
Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds
Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds seeks to be a crucial contribution to the history of medieval connectedness. Using one of the methodological tools associated with the global history movement, this volume aims to use connectedness to revitalise local and regional networks of exchange and movement. Its case studies collectively point caution toward assuming or asserting global-scale transmission of meaning or item…
Power through empowerment? The managerial discourse on employee empowerment
Informed by the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse, the current study explores how employee empowerment is discursively constructed as a management technique. Combing insights from labour process theory, Foucauldian approaches to governmentality and neo-Weberian interpretations of the ideological basis of capitalism, we develop an empirically informed theoretical framework that accounts for the multifaceted character of employee empower…
Alienation in the Algorithmic Labour of Search Engine Optimisation Specialists
The study examines alienation in the labouring activity of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) specialists and probes the role of Google's algorithm in these experiences. Drawing on qualitative interviews, it identifies two forms of alienation. The first form involves powerlessness and insecurity due to managerial control by objectives, making employees responsible for influencing an algorithm beyond their control. The second form, occupational stat…
Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds
Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds seeks to be a crucial contribution to the history of medieval connectedness. Using one of the methodological tools associated with the global history movement, this volume aims to use connectedness to revitalise local and regional networks of exchange and movement. Its case studies collectively point caution toward assuming or asserting global-scale transmission of meaning or item…
Power through empowerment? The managerial discourse on employee empowerment
Informed by the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse, the current study explores how employee empowerment is discursively constructed as a management technique. Combing insights from labour process theory, Foucauldian approaches to governmentality and neo-Weberian interpretations of the ideological basis of capitalism, we develop an empirically informed theoretical framework that accounts for the multifaceted character of employee empower…
Inventing and ethnicising Slavonic in the long ninth century
This article situates the scholarship on the invention of the Slavonic alphabet within the discipline of literacy studies practised in Western medieval contexts. In so doing it identifies some of the methodological assumptions that have shaped the study of the invention of Slavonic, and proposes a new reading of the invention and ethnicisation of the alphabet, from a new methodological starting point. It demonstrates that the ethnicisation of Sla…
Building the Future? Software Workers’ Imaginaries of Technology
This article investigates an actor’s perspective on digital capitalism. We study software workers’ orientations towards their work by focusing on the social use value they attribute to it. The concept of use value allows us to examine the contradictions software workers might experience in digital capitalism. Drawing on the literature on the control of software workers and the New Spirit of Digital Capitalism, we identify hindrances to the worker…
A Qualitative Investigation into the Experiences of Students with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD/Dyspraxia) in Higher Education
Developmental coordination disorder (DCD/Dyspraxia) is a commonly misunderstood and under-recognized specific learning difficulty (SpLD) in educational settings. This lifelong condition affects fine and gross motor coordination and significantly interferes with many activities of daily living, academic achievement, and employment opportunities. However, most Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are unaware of its prevalence within their context, …
The Politics of Byzantine Studies
Byzantine studies is neither the oldest nor the largest of the historical disciplines, but it is among the oddest.Its peculiarities, however, are rarely discussed by its practitioners, nor have they been much noted by intellectual historians.The appearance in recent years of multiple book-length studies of the discipline and its histories is therefore welcome.The quality of the three works here reviewed is such that each simultaneously complement…
Alienation in the Algorithmic Labour of Search Engine Optimisation Specialists
The study examines alienation in the labouring activity of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) specialists and probes the role of Google's algorithm in these experiences. Drawing on qualitative interviews, it identifies two forms of alienation. The first form involves powerlessness and insecurity due to managerial control by objectives, making employees responsible for influencing an algorithm beyond their control. The second form, occupational stat…
The Fatalist–Voluntarist Tension
Reification re-specified
Against broader readings that extend reification across different social spheres, this article argues that the concept gains analytical precision when anchored in the economic fabric of society. It understands reification as arising from capitalist societalisation mediated by the commodity form. The concept designates a double form of power: first, the impersonal and abstract power generated by commodity-mediated relations; and second, the ideolo…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art (2 works)