Veronika Stoyanova
Biographic Data
| ID | 901893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronika Stoyanova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronika |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoyanova |
| SIGNATURE | STOYANOVA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6104-4432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The uneven geographies of trust(s): Finance capitalism, transnational legal innovation and shifting scales of institutional faith from decolonisation to post-socialism
Building on Roger Cotterrell’s call to theorise the law of trusts in relation to trust as an all-pervasive sociopolitical phenomenon, we explore the interplay between these two concepts of trust in relation to the rise of neoliberalism. Here, we centre how the ability of offshore trusts to evade tax/regulatory obligations compromises the ability of sovereign states to build institutions that nurture trust. Historicising this dynamic, we turn to h…
The ambiguities of intellectual dissent in late socialism: The case of Bulgaria
The old totalitarian paradigmFootnote1 – the model still commonly deployed across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond to describe and explain state socialism – painted an image of socialist regimes as autocratic and all-powerful systems of total control imposed on a paralyzed mass of people, where only heroic individuals resisted. The dominant interpretations of intellectual dissidence correspondingly still often overlook internal inconsistenci…
Europe, Islam and the Roma: Liberalism and the manufacture of cultural difference
In this article, we direct our critical enquiry at public intellectuals’ musings about cultural difference in the wake of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ (starting in 2015) and the coincidental eruption of ‘ethnic tensions’ between Roma and non-Roma citizens in Bulgaria. We show how (1) some intellectuals mobilize their position as holders of legitimate knowledge about culture to construct rigid collective identities, despite their professed liber…
Down with communism - Power to the people: The legacies of 1989 and beyond
This special issue brings together reflections on the thirtieth anniversary of the revolutions of 1989 and considers their consequences for our understandings of European and global society. What seemed for some at least the surprising and rapid collapse of Eastern European state socialism prompted rethinking in social theory about the potential for emancipatory politics and new modes of social and political organization. At the same time, there …
Theconcept of civil society during Bulgaria’s post-1989 “transition”: Its road to hegemony and its Utopian Surplus
The following is a slightly revised selection from chapter 4 of Veronika Stoyanova’s recent book Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe: Beyond the Transition’s Liberal Consensus (London: Routledge, 2018). Stoyanova traces discursive developments during the final years of Communist Party rule in Bulgaria and the radical transformations that followed, when the concept of civil society played a central role in emerging justifications of dem…
Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe: Beyond the Transition’s Liberal Consensus
This book argues that the recent political mobilizations in Eastern Europe have been underpinned by a class struggle between a more conservative and a more radical line of contention. The latter line, the book contends, is designed by and for subaltern groups whose anti-systemic programme calls for not just the eradication of corruption, but for more participatory forms of democracy, for social justice, and for freedom from want. The former, on t…
Civil Society and Party Politics in Bulgaria after 2013: A Gramscian Look
In 2013, Bulgaria was shaken by two waves of mass protests, which seemed to mobilise distinct social groups and put different, and often conflicting, demands on the table. In the midst of the turbulence of the protests, new political formations emerged which aimed to capitalise on the mobilisations. The mushrooming of new political projects in the wake of the mass protests seems to mark an apparent re-politicisation following the post-political t…
Civil Society and Party Politics in Bulgaria after 2013: A Gramscian Look
In 2013, Bulgaria was shaken by two waves of mass protests, which seemed to mobilise distinct social groups and put different, and often conflicting, demands on the table. In the midst of the turbulence of the protests, new political formations emerged which aimed to capitalise on the mobilisations. The mushrooming of new political projects in the wake of the mass protests seems to mark an apparent re-politicisation following the post-political t…
Europe, Islam and the Roma: Liberalism and the manufacture of cultural difference
In this article, we direct our critical enquiry at public intellectuals’ musings about cultural difference in the wake of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ (starting in 2015) and the coincidental eruption of ‘ethnic tensions’ between Roma and non-Roma citizens in Bulgaria. We show how (1) some intellectuals mobilize their position as holders of legitimate knowledge about culture to construct rigid collective identities, despite their professed liber…
Down with communism - Power to the people: The legacies of 1989 and beyond
This special issue brings together reflections on the thirtieth anniversary of the revolutions of 1989 and considers their consequences for our understandings of European and global society. What seemed for some at least the surprising and rapid collapse of Eastern European state socialism prompted rethinking in social theory about the potential for emancipatory politics and new modes of social and political organization. At the same time, there …
Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe: Beyond the Transition’s Liberal Consensus
This book argues that the recent political mobilizations in Eastern Europe have been underpinned by a class struggle between a more conservative and a more radical line of contention. The latter line, the book contends, is designed by and for subaltern groups whose anti-systemic programme calls for not just the eradication of corruption, but for more participatory forms of democracy, for social justice, and for freedom from want. The former, on t…
Civil Society and Party Politics in Bulgaria after 2013: A Gramscian Look
In 2013, Bulgaria was shaken by two waves of mass protests, which seemed to mobilise distinct social groups and put different, and often conflicting, demands on the table. In the midst of the turbulence of the protests, new political formations emerged which aimed to capitalise on the mobilisations. The mushrooming of new political projects in the wake of the mass protests seems to mark an apparent re-politicisation following the post-political t…
Theconcept of civil society during Bulgaria’s post-1989 “transition”: Its road to hegemony and its Utopian Surplus
The following is a slightly revised selection from chapter 4 of Veronika Stoyanova’s recent book Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe: Beyond the Transition’s Liberal Consensus (London: Routledge, 2018). Stoyanova traces discursive developments during the final years of Communist Party rule in Bulgaria and the radical transformations that followed, when the concept of civil society played a central role in emerging justifications of dem…
Down with communism - Power to the people: The legacies of 1989 and beyond
This special issue brings together reflections on the thirtieth anniversary of the revolutions of 1989 and considers their consequences for our understandings of European and global society. What seemed for some at least the surprising and rapid collapse of Eastern European state socialism prompted rethinking in social theory about the potential for emancipatory politics and new modes of social and political organization. At the same time, there …
Europe, Islam and the Roma: Liberalism and the manufacture of cultural difference
In this article, we direct our critical enquiry at public intellectuals’ musings about cultural difference in the wake of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ (starting in 2015) and the coincidental eruption of ‘ethnic tensions’ between Roma and non-Roma citizens in Bulgaria. We show how (1) some intellectuals mobilize their position as holders of legitimate knowledge about culture to construct rigid collective identities, despite their professed liber…
The ambiguities of intellectual dissent in late socialism: The case of Bulgaria
The old totalitarian paradigmFootnote1 – the model still commonly deployed across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond to describe and explain state socialism – painted an image of socialist regimes as autocratic and all-powerful systems of total control imposed on a paralyzed mass of people, where only heroic individuals resisted. The dominant interpretations of intellectual dissidence correspondingly still often overlook internal inconsistenci…
The uneven geographies of trust(s): Finance capitalism, transnational legal innovation and shifting scales of institutional faith from decolonisation to post-socialism
Building on Roger Cotterrell’s call to theorise the law of trusts in relation to trust as an all-pervasive sociopolitical phenomenon, we explore the interplay between these two concepts of trust in relation to the rise of neoliberalism. Here, we centre how the ability of offshore trusts to evade tax/regulatory obligations compromises the ability of sovereign states to build institutions that nurture trust. Historicising this dynamic, we turn to h…
Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Civil society (2 works)