Огъване на свободата: протестите и перипетиите на индивидуалната свобода след свиването на социалната държава
Twists of Freedom: The Protests and the Vicissitudes of Individual Freedom in Post-Welfare Times
Author(s): Milena IakimovaSubject(s): Civil Society, Sociology, Social Theory, Present Times (2010 - today), Sociology of Politics
Published by: Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София
Keywords: protests; social critique; psychologization of inequality; corporate loyalty
Summary/Abstract: The paper briefl y compares protests in Bulgaria in the early 1990s and in the post-EU accession period stating that they signifi cantly differ in their affi nity for and representations of sovereignty and democracy. While the former pleaded for democratization without challenging the nation-state frame of sovereignty, the latter raised urgently the question of reframing. Paradoxically, the vocabulary of this challenge is the critique of alienation turned into a structure of corporate subjection. This sheds some light on the ‘negativity’ of contemporary protests, their aspiration to devalue power and to oppose democracy to politics, and, in short, their ambivalence.
Journal: Критика и хуманизъм
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 45
- Page Range: 263-272
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Bulgarian
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