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."
(under review) 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.” Under review with Geoforum.
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
EmpowerUs: Socio-ecological empowerment of coastal communities (Horizon Europe Researcn and Innovation Action)