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Svetla
KOLEVA

Sociology - Bulgaria

Contact details

Email.
svetlakoleva2002@yahoo.com

Research topics

SCIENTIFIC PROJECT

"Non-hegemonic theory and post-Western spaces of scientific knowledge production: the case of Central and Eastern European Sociologies"
 
The project is part of the critique of hegemonic Western thought in the social sciences that has been expanding in Africa, Latin America and the Arab world over the past twenty years. The intention is to broaden the reflection on epistemic inequalities including the academic space of Central and Eastern Europe before and after 1989. By comparing two very different socio-historical periods, those of the communist regimes and post-communism, the project examines the national contexts of the practice of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in order to identify the circuits of knowledge production which through the life of legacies, the trajectories of theories and methods, loci of controversy contribute to creating post-Western spaces of scientific production. It remains to be explored whether these spaces overturn old hierarchies, break down epistemic invisibilities and lead to worldwide recognition and reception independently of the place of knowledge production.

Activities / Resume

BIOGRAPHY

 

Svetla Koleva is a professor of sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of sciences, an editor-in-chief of the academic journal Sociological Problems.