Bio

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.

Publications

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