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THE ART OF CHALLENGING: RE-READING AND REMEMBERING IVAYLO DITCHEV
This is an introduction to the special issue of Filosofia-Philosophy dedicated to the memory of Ivaylo Ditchev (1955 – 2023), professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Sofia, Department of History and Theory of Culture. It combines personal recol...
Ivaylo Ditchev; urban anthropology; visual anthropology; digital turn; politics of participation
CITIZENS VS. ELITES. SYMBOLIC BATTLES OVER THE USES OF POLITICAL CRISES IN BULGARIA
How does one write about civic activism in a time of no activism, of fatigue, political impasse, and crisis after crisis? What has become most constant is the exceptional: crisis. It is to the latter that this essay is devoted. It addresses the question: How d...
elites; citizens; crisis; national populism
RETHINKING POPULISM WITH PIERRE ROSANVALLON
In times of growing populism throughout the world, the article offers a rethinking of its nature and manifestations with the help of Pierre Rosanvallon’s critical democratic theory. The French social thinker offers a comprehensive concept of this world phenome...
Pierre Rosanvallon; populism; critical theory of democracy; aporias of democracy; “democratorship”
POPULIST NARRATIVES ABOUT THE EU IN THE 2024 EUROPEAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN BULGARIA
The European elections on June 9th, 2024, coincided with another early parliamentary election in Bulgaria. As in the previous election campaigns, domestic political problems and sharp party opposition overshadowed the EUrelated issues. Although proper politica...
populism; EU elections; Bulgaria, anti-liberal; war in Ukraine
STYLES OF POLITICAL POPULISM: PLAIN LANGUAGESFOR ORDINARY PEOPLE
The report draws attention to the lack of a single and exclusive populist style, as populism can manifest itself on both the left and the right political spectrum. The existence of more than one populist style is defended by arguing that in different sociocult...
populist style; core; periphery; linguistic means; context
POPULISM IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATION – FROM FRAGMENTATION TO RADICALIZATION IN TIMES OF CRISES. THE CASE OF BULGARIA
Populism in public communication has revived during the global economic and political crises. It is embedded in both right wing and left wing political ideologies. During the pandemic of Covid-19 the populist discourses have been tightly intertwined with rumor...
populist discourses; political fragmentation; hate speech
TROLLING AS POLITICAL DISCOURSE
The paper aims to highlight some of the characteristics of political trolling and to follow how the phenomenon functions in the Bulgarian context. The analysis focuses on the specifics of troll language and the so-called troll dilemma, as well as on the intera...
trolling; politics; popular culture; social networks; post-truth
THE WILD WEST OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM
The article discusses the challenges posed by the rise of digital journalism, contrasting it with traditional journalism's standards of impartiality, fact-checking, and ethics. Digital platforms, where user-generated content dominates, have disrupted the media...
digital journalism; European Media Freedom Act EMFA; quality journalism
BULGARIA’S LAW ON PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS OF 1941: EFFECT AND AFTER-EFFECTS
The article illuminates a little-known topic of the functioning of Bulgarian journalism as a regulated profession after the adoption of the Law on Professional Journalists in 1941. The paper traces the implementation of the law and the consequences of the mult...
regulation of the journalistic profession; state intervention in the media
IN A LAD’S WORLD. A POPULAR TV SERIES AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE SHADOW OF THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR
The essay deals with the enormous success of the Russian television series The Boy's Word. Blood on the Asphalt (Slovo patsana. Krov’ na asfalte, 2023), directed by Zhora Kryzhovnikov, on both sides of the trenches during the Russo-Ukrainian war. It discusses...
Popular culture; TV series, social media; Russo-Ukrainian war; Zhora Kryzhovnikov; Russian TV series Slovo patsana. Krov’ na asfalte (2023)
ON HIP-HOP MUSIC AS POP-POLITICS: A LOOK AT THE POETICS IN TRAJECTORIES OF CONTENT AND FORM
Hip-hop music in Bulgaria is not just a style of popular music but a cultural choice and political stance. This paper explores Bulgarian hip-hop songs and artists as bearers of the communal and political through the poetic. The analyzed songs and videos of Zhl...
Bulgarian rap waves; videos on YouTube; pop politics; resistance
INVISIBLE PROFESSIONAL TV WATCHERS UNDER SURVEILLANCE
This paper presents the results from a study of the attitudes of TV workers in entertainment shows in two main category oppositions: “visible”/“invisible” and “interesting”/“insignificant”. The conducted interviews show that despite the stress of the workroom,...
media; television; popular culture; entertainment; invisible workers
THE ACCELERATION OF INTIMACY. REPRESENTATIONS OF LOVE, SEXUALITY AND RELATIONSHIPS IN VIRTUAL REALITY
The text examines the representations of relationships, intimacy and love in virtual reality, based on a thematic analysis of a corpus of keywordselected YouTube videos. The interest in this topic is driven by its status as a new phenomenon that challenges the...
virtual reality; love; intimacy; body; avatar
GREEN ACTS: GLOBAL POLITICS VS LOCAL CRISES (A CASE STUDY IN TWO BULGARIAN VILLAGES)
As the EU implements measures to tackle the climate emergency on a continental scale, national governmental and economic actors haste to claim better positions in an eco-friendly low carbon market of goods and resources. With this gradual change, surprising fa...
local contestation; social resilience; civic representation; multi-level exclusion; rural lifestyles
POLIT-POP SUSTAINABILITY: POLICIES, BUSINESSES, AND MEDIA HEROES FOR A ‘GREEN’ LIFESTYLE
The paper presents some of the results of an ongoing anthropological study on the socialization of “green” and “sustainable” practices, both in business operations and in citizens’ daily lives. We shed light on controversial aspects of sustainability through p...
sustainable lifestyle; consumer cultures; green transition; social media; EU