Ana Velitchkova
Areas of Interest
Culture and Political Participation; Global Sociology; Social Change; Publics, Fields and Institutions; Conflict, Violence, and Peace; Gender and Inequality; Social Networks
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Ana is interested in how social change happens and why sometimes people pursue it peacefully while other times people use violence. Currently, she is looking for answers at the intersection of field theory, institutionalism, the production of culture approach, the study of (especially high risk) political participation (which includes among other things the study of social movements), and the study of the public sphere. In her dissertation, Ana is working out a new definition of publics, which as sites/moments of production of [new] culture she thinks are a key to finding good answers. The dissertation thus proposes a new typology of publics and ventures into finding out how several different types of publics were produced.
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