No. 15 - Albena Azmanova

Bulgarian. Scholar, author, sociologist, Associate Professor at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies. Albena Azmanova has written extensively on the transformation of capitalism and the rise of new ideologies, social conflict, judgment and justice, rule of law and democratic transitions. In her latest book, Capitalism on Edge (2020) she explores the possibility of radical social transformation without the help of crisis, revolution or utopia. She is currently Associate Professor in Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies, and has held academic positions at the New School for Social Research in New York, Sciences Po. Paris, Harvard University, and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr Azmanova has worked as a policy advisor for a number of international organisations, most recently, as a member of the Independent Commission for Sustainable Equality to the European Parliament.

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