European Union marine and environmental policy

2025

(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. 

2024

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 

2023

Flannery, W., B. Murtagh, A. Miller, A.S. Antonova, M. Hadjimichael, K. Svels, P. Salmi, V. Erikkson, V.M.D. Steiro, C.M. Ekeland, S. Gómez, B. Patraca & M. Pulgar. “Report on the scaling and replication of pilots.” Public report from EmpowerUs project.

Flannery, W., B. Murtagh, A. Miller, A.S. Antonova, M. Hadjimichael, K. Svels, P. Salmi, V. Erikkson, V.M.D. Steiro, C.M. Ekeland, S. Gómez, B. Patraca & M. Pulgar. “Report on community governance audit.” Public report from EmpowerUs project.

2023

Antonova, A.S. “Sustaining transformations: Changing marine governance, environmental meaning, and ‘left behind’ Brexit narratives on the Yorkshire East Coast.” Maritime Studies 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-022-00290-1     

2021

Kadfak, A. & A.S. Antonova. “Sustainable networks: Modes of governance in the EU’s external fisheries policy relations under the IUU Regulation in Thailand and the SFPA with Senegal.” Marine Policy 132: 104656, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104656 

2016

Antonova, A.S. “The rhetoric of ‘responsible fishing’: Notions of human rights and sustainability in the European Union’s bilateral fishing agreements with developing states.” Marine Policy 70: 77-84, https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/99508/3/AnnaAntonova_RhetoricResponsibleFishing_Revised.pdf 

2015

Antonova, A.S. “Reforming EU participation in fisheries management and conservation on the high seas.” The Ocean Yearbook 29: 125-143, https://doi.org/10.1163/22116001-02901007 

2022 - 2025

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

2015 - 2020

PhD Thesis "Transformations, crises, and contestations in narratives about environment and society on the Yorkshire North Sea and Bulgarian Black Sea coasts" (University of Leeds, School of Earth & Environment and School of English) 

ENHANCE ITN: Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network)

2014 - 2015

Master's Thesis Project "Fair Fishing:  Human rights and sustinability in biletaral fishing agreements between the EU and developing countries" (University of Rhode Island Department of Marine Affairs)