CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Krastev, Stefan Dimitrov |
|---|---|
| Title | Power on, power off. Access to electricity and Roma in Bulgaria - from universal entitlement to insecure resource |
| Summary | This paper looks at the controversies, raised by the problematic access to electricity in Bulgarian Roma neighbourhoods, characterised with widespread illegal connections, debts formed of unpaid bills, amounting to millions of leva and electricity supply restrictions, affecting thousands Roma households. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Stolipinovo, Plovdiv – the Roma neighbourhood with longer history of problems on the issue – the paper argues that electricity supply in Bulgaria in the 1990’ is transformed from a universally guaranteed social entitlement, granted by the socialist state to its subjects, to an insecure resource to which different social groups have different access, In the case of marginalised groups as Roma – the access is conditioned and dependant upon the mediation of influential political entrepreneurs. Crucial role in shaping the conditions of this new regime of insecurity has the state with its actions and refrain from actions |
| Supervisor | Stewart, Michael; Kalb, Don |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/krastev_stefan.pdf |
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