A: Post-imperalistic Nation Building Processes
B: Ethnic and Religious Diversity
C: Ethnic and Religious Diversity
D: Environmental Change and Ecological Resources
E: Interactions and Interdependencies between Conflict and Cooperation
F: In:Security
The Datalab blog examines data practices and regional transformations in Eastern Europe, fostering dialogue between scholars and practitioners through case studies, visualizations, and interdisciplinary essays.
The DataLab provides training sessions and workshops for young and experienced researchers from the KonKoop network and the project’s partners
This new database presents comprehensive information on 51 accessible collections of protest event data
Conflict and Cooperation Database
The catalog provides a list of available datasets and sources covering the regions of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and South Caucasus.
Critical Cartography and Map Analysis
One of the main directions of the VisLab is to develop and provide a systematic and critical analysis of peace and conflict visualisations with the intention to articulate relevant concepts, explore features and develop its typologies
Drawing on the analysis of visualisations and best practices, the VisLab will explore and propose a variety of visualisation approaches related to the topic lines and case studies in the KonKoop project.
In this inventory, the VisLab collects diverse examples in which peace, conflict and their entanglements with other socio-spatial processes are visualised by various actors (e.g. scientists, media, or artists).
Nikola A. Venkov-Rose is interested in the politics of living together in the context of the Eastern European city and how people’s fates are affected by power inequalities and marginalisation, by racialisation, by the tussles of civil society, and by the domains of government, media, and professional expertise. Staying close to politics as an everyday practice suggests privileging ethnography as a method of data collection. He is also working with and elaborating further Ernesto Laclau’s post-foundational discourse theory. Nikola is an assistant professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (since 2021). He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Sofia (2017) and has been a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the Leibnitz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig.
Venkov, Nikola A. 2022. “Marketplace Decline Heads East: Neoliberal Reform, Socio-Spatial Sorting and Patterns of Decline at Sofia’s Public Markets”. In: Sezer, Ceren и van Melik, Rianne (eds.) Marketplaces: Movement, representations and practice. London and New York: Routledge, 88-100. https://tiny.one/Venkov2022-decline
Venkov, Nikola A. 2020. “On the Retreat of Liberal Values and Access to Discourse: Extending Post-Foundational Discourse Theory.” In Kranert, Michael (ed.) Discursive Approaches to Populism Across Disciplines – The Return of Populists and the People, 199-223. Cham: Palgrave-Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55038-7_8. Preprint: https://tiny.one/Venkov2020-PDT
Venkov, Nikola A. 2019. “Conviviality Vs Politics of Coexistence: Going Beyond the Global North.” CAS Sofia Working Paper Series, 11, 1-42. https://tinyurl.com/Venkov2019-conviv
Venkov, Nikola A. 2016. “Conspiracy Narratives at the Women’s Market.” Seminar_BG (3). URL: https://tiny.one/venkov2016-conspiracy
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