Dr Veronika Stoyanova is the corresponding author of a newly published article in the European Journal of Cultural Studies. The paper, ‘Europe, Islam and the Roma: Liberalism and the manufacture of cultural difference,’ co-authored with Jana Tsoneva at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, examines the intertwining of racist and (neo-) liberal political reasoning in public intellectual’s discursive construction of the Roma-refugee ‘Other’ in Bulgaria.
For anyone who is interested in epistemic justice, the paper illuminates how a new culturalist language that escalates both political and economic asymmetries emerges. It also points out embedded self-contradictions in the emergent new liberal positioning.
The piece is also of interest to people who work in the general area of Europe studies, public intellectuals, elective affinity between liberal and conservative, ethnic tensions, the ‘refugee crisis’ debates and Critical Discourse Analysis.