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For Bulgarian citizens when populism is mainstreamed, contestability is more important than consent

Protests may not achieve their goals or provide a new democratic model, but they have been a laboratory for citizenship through contestation.

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“I feel that I can change the world,”[1] a volunteer said. Such unqualified confidence seems paradoxical: how can volunteer work with refugee children – rendered invisible in the public space by hegemonic securitarian and anti-refugee discourses – change society, politics, ‘the world’?