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Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov

Elena Marushiakova is a holder of ERC Advanced Grant 2015, “Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two World Wars”, and President of the Gypsy Lore Society. She is affiliated to the School of History at the University of  St. Andrews. She has published widely on Roma in Bulgaria, Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe.

Vesselin Popov works at the School of History at the University of St. Andrews. Conducts research in frames of ERC Advanced Grant 2015,  “Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two World Wars”. Has published widely on Roma in Bulgaria, Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe.

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Articles by Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov

  1. Call of the Wild

    Ever since systematic agriculture began in eastern Turkey around eleven thousand years ago, farmers and livestock keepers have had an antagonistic relationship to wild animals in general and predators in particular — a clash reflected in countless myths, legends, and fables, many of which survive in modern versions.

  2. 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN SLOVENIA: a demise of presidential politics as we know it?

    On 2 December 2012 Slovenian citizens elected the fourth president of the republic in its short history as an independent and liberal democratic state. Although the presidential function in a system of parliamentary government (see Strøm, 1995) such as Slovenian is by constitution reduced to more or less ceremonial obligations with very limited executive competences, its significance is in fact far greater.

  3. What did the Father Say?

    Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions Again, Samutsevich’s testimony evokes a similarity between the Pussy Riot case and women […]

  4. What Did the Father Say?

    Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions The story of innocence and corruption, bad motherhood and bad influences presented in […]

  5. Mother-to-Be Making Love at the Museum of Biology

    Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions It is important in this connection to mention the activities of Voina (The […]

  6. Right Wing Academic Opportunism

    Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions And the right-wing academia immediately joined the voice of the judge in an […]

  7. The Pussy Riot Trial: Quotes from Court Verdict Concerning Feminism and Contemporary Art

    Comments on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions   “Feminism is not crime but…” [1] The court cannot agree to the arguments […]

  8. Pussy Riot and Femen: Strategies of Symbolic Violence

    Comment written jointly with Irina Sandomirskaja on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions However, in the post-modern Russian society, radical protest […]

  9. Revolution: An Unpleasant Memory

    Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions Pussy Riot awakened public memory to a recollection of an alternative history that […]

  10. A Precedent of the Pussy Riot Trial: the Trial and Suicide of Anna Al’chuk (2003-2008)

    Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions It is not for the first time that feminism in Russia became an […]

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