I am a PhD candidate in Social Work at Södertörn University, and I am also affiliated with the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS). My topic is related to social and political impact of the access to the water supply infrastructure and how it has evolved under socialism and capitalism in Bulgaria. I am interested in the various tactics of resistance and civic action for access to water and hygiene employed by different social and ethnic groups (Roma, homeless people, environmental activists), with a main focus on Sofia and Sliven, as well as mobilizations across Bulgaria. My work is in dialogue with political ecology, ethnography, social work, environmental justice research, and critical geography. I focus on knowledge production in a post-socialist context in Eastern Europe. Methodologically, I explore participant-oriented approaches informed by public and engaged sociology and anthropology.

Key research areas

• Infrastructures – violence, racialization, exclusion, failure
• Environmental justice movements
• Hydrosocial cycle and human-nature relations
• Inequalities, marginalization, vulnerable communities
• Socialism and post-socialism