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Политика на пространството: протестното движение #ДАНСwithme на сцената на постсоциалистическа София
Politics of Space: The #ДАНСwithme Protest Movement on the Stage of Post-socialist Sofia

Author(s): Nikolay Nikolov
Published by: Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София
Keywords: #ДАНСwithme; power/knowledge; Foucault; Habermas; democracy; post-socialism; totalitarianism; Bulgaria; public sphere; politics; freedom; discourse.

Summary/Abstract: #ДАНСwithme is the longest lasting anti-government protest in the history of Bulgaria. Acting as a temporary intervention into the urban fabric of Sofia, it was a battle for the access to ‘truth’ in the public sphere. Through it, a particular discursive critique and practical critical ethos were developed, which were aimed at uncovering the overarching relations of power and dominant systems of truth hidden behind the regime of façade democracy. It is argued in this paper that #ДАНСwithme functioned as a specific kind of diagnosis of the present because it generated distinct battles for the access to truth both about the present through the past and about the present through the future.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 43
  • Page Range: 195-219
  • Page Count: 25