Mgr. Klára Kosová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Klára Kosová, Ph.D.
Posts:
- Department of Russian and East European Studies, IIS
E-mail: klara.kosova@fsv.cuni.cz , klara.zaloudkova@fsv.cuni.cz
Rooms: No. 226, Pekařská 10
ResearcherID: AGX-0884-2022
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6819-5148
I am pursuing a PhD under joint supervision at the Institute of International Studies, FSV CUNI and the Graduate School for the Humanities at the University of Groningen. My research interests lie in the intersection of culture studies, political science and media studies. More particularly, I focus on the role the transition from non-democratic regimes to democracy plays in the perceptions, values and mental images of a given society.
In my dissertation research titled Governance Legitimacy in the Oligarchized Settings: The Case of Bulgaria, I look at the process of (de)legitimation of governance actors during the Bulgarian uprising in 2020 and 2021. More particularly, I look at conceptual metaphor's role in building successful (de)legitimation narratives.
Rok vydání
Monographs
Chapters in monographs
Articles
- Kosová K. (2024). THROUGH THE LENS OF MEDIATIZATION: GOVERNANCE LEGITIMACY IN THE WAKE OF BULGARIAN PROTESTS IN 2020 AND 2021. Studia Politica, 24(2), 359-388.
- Kosová K. (2022). Wealth defence strategies of Bulgarian Oligarchs in the 1990s. Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 22(3), 361-379. UT-WOS link
Contributions in the conference proceedings
- Kosová K. (2025). The Case for Metaphors in Public Discourse. Imaginary of Bulgarian Governance through the Prism of Metaphors. Malach Center for Visual History on its 15th Anniversary: Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2025 (pp. 99-121).
My research interests are threefold: 1) the role the transition from non-democratic regimes to democracy plays in the perceptions, values and mental images of a given society, 2) the role of conceptual metaphor in human thought and communication, 3) Bulgarian politics and society.
