Mariya Ivancheva

Mariya Ivancheva is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University.
Her research is focused on the past and present of socialism as reflected in the history of student movements and the contemporary higher education reform in Venezuela. Mariya is a member of the collective of Social Center Xaspel and the local group of Transeuropa Network in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The Bulgarian winter of protests

In the last week of February, after days of protests across the country, the Bulgarian government headed by Boyko Borisov resigned. What happened? What came after? And what comes next?

By Mariya Ivancheva

/ 15 Mar 2013

Debating “the commons” in post-socialist Bulgaria

The absence of solidarity with other causes and the persistence of neoliberalism in Bulgarian protests against the Forestry Act underline the need to adapt our understanding of "the commons" to new contexts. Neoliberal discourse and developmentalist ideology still control the imaginations of the m

By Mariya Ivancheva

/ 6 Aug 2012