Being a Citizen in Times of Mainstreaming of Populism: Building Post-communist Contestatory and Solidary Citizenship

Krasteva, Anna; Staykova, Evelina; Otova, Ildiko

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“…The NSMs' theories emphasize the social and the cultural conditions for the emergence of certain collective actions rather than the resources (Edwards and McCarthy, 2007) and the structure of the movements used in the classical social movements theories (Della Porta and Diani, 2020;Pichardo, 1997). Thus the emergence and the development of the Bulgarian LGBTQI activism needs to be considered within the changing political and economic settings in Bulgaria after 1989 which provided a new understanding of citizenship as an act of mobilization (Krasteva et al, 2019). This new understanding happened within turbulent political transformations, a significant influence of the Internet, and economic challenges and possibilities that have played roles in the emergence of the movement creating discourses of and spaces for "intimate citizenship" (Plummer, 2011).…”

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“…Often taken as granted and as an intrinsic value of working democracies, the engagement with social movements and the collective willingness for social change deserve better understanding in Bulgaria where after the fall of communism the social movements and NGOs have faced numerous challenges. These include low support and distrust towards the non-governmental sector (Spasov, 2019); controversial mobilization characterized by low audibility and support for human rights activism versus strong support for the environmental activism (Krasteva et al, 2019); and contested strategies for social mobilization and resistance (Georgieva, 2017) including multiple voices and subgroups within the entire political spectrum, fighting over the importance of women's, LGBTQI rights, migration, identity politics, and tax reforms.…”

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Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies

Darakchi

2021

Sexualities

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Based on 27 in-depth interviews, web platforms analysis, and participatory observations this study investigates (a) the emergence and the development of the Bulgarian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning and intersex (LGBTQI) movement; and (b) the activists' motivation for engagement with the movement. Challenging the new social movements’ theories the data from the study suggest that (a) the LGBTQI movement in Bulgaria emerged within the political and the economic transformations marked by anti-communist rhetoric, rather than collective sexual identity; (b) most of the diverse activist communities and the incorporation of “bottom-up” approach did not emerge spontaneously but were established by funded and professionalized project activities; (c) an increasing number of younger activists use left-oriented intersectional approaches in their activism emphasizing on the economic rather than the cultural conditions: (d) the stable financial and social resources of the anti-gender campaigns require reconsideration of the resources and the structure of the LGBTQI movements seen primarily as social entities, often neglecting the economic and the political structures.

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Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies

Darakchi

2021

Sexualities

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From Representative to Anti-Civic Populist Democracy?

Kabakchieva

2020

Southeast. Eur.

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This article analyses the emergence and development of different forms of civil society in Bulgaria from the late 1980s to the present day, focusing on ngos and the large anti-government protests in 1989–1991, 1997, and 2013–2014. It shows that civil society has been developing in ebbs and flows, its main actors having alt-civic and fake doubles: nationalist movements and fake counter-protests. Recent developments indicate a clear trend of transition from representative to direct democracy, which coincides with the populist orientation of most parties. This coincidence is dangerous because populist parties, following the romantic tradition, reinvented the figure of “the people” as traditionalistic, nationalistic, and conservative. “Civil society,” seen as “alien,” was constructed as an enemy of “the people.” The author argues that defending the pluralistic values of civil society against the thus-invented “people,” is the main challenge to democracy in Bulgaria today.

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Being a Citizen in Times of Mainstreaming of Populism: Building Post-communist Contestatory and Solidary Citizenship

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Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies

Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies

From Representative to Anti-Civic Populist Democracy?

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