Diverse economic practices

Influenced by feminist political economy and (urban) political ecology approaches, especially as they relate to the insights gained from postsocialist contexts, my work increasingly engages with the possibilities and challenges of rethinking the economy as a relational practice. This line of my research joins others like JK Gibson-Graham in contesting the path dependency of seeing linear growth as the only functional economic model and looks in-depth at the practices of vernacular knowledge holders in communities - theorizing economic activities and values "from bellow."

Related publications

2025

Antonova, A.S., W. Flannery, S. Gómez, M. Gustavsson, M. Hadjimichael, B. Murtagh, K. Ounanian, S. Sølnor, V.M.D. Steiro & K. Svels. “Centering coastal communities’ diverse practices in the blue economy.” Geoforum 166, 104410, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104410

2024

Antonova, A.S. “Regimes of value: Economic transformations, ecological livelihoods, and salt cooperatives on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space OnlineFirst: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X241295521

Antonova, A.S. “Squinting like a state: Narratives of corruption, informal practices, and legacies of societal distrust on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.” Anthropology: Journal for Socio-Cultural Anthropology 11(2): 26-46, https://anthropology-journal.org/wp/author/anna-antonova

Related projects

2022 - 2025

EmpowerUs: Socio-ecological empowerment of coastal communities (Horizon Europe Researcn and Innovation Action)

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