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Martin Kanoushev
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Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria e |
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Regimes of Truth: Social Contexts of Authority of Criminal Law in Bulgarian “Transitions” 1878-1900, 1944-1956, 1989-2000
Shaken Order: Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist Societies - Case Studies in Law |
Martin Kanoushev's Previous Projects
Transformations of the Institutional Practices in the Bulgarian Legal System: Criminal Law and Psychiatric Knowledge
Roles, Identities and Hybrids: Roles, Identities and Hybrids. Multiple Institutional Cultures in Southeast Europe within the Context of European Unification
Brief informationDr Kanoushev is a graduate from the Department of Sociology, Sofi a University (MA, 1991) and holds a doctoral degree in Sociology from the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Sociology of Deviant Behaviour (1999). His doctoral thesis focused on ‘Crime, Criminality, Punishment: A Sociological Study of Criminal Justice'. In 2007, he received his habilitation at the Institute of Sociology, BAS. His research concentrated on ‘The Social Construction of the Deviant Subject'. Currently he combines teaching positions in sociology at Sofia University ‘St Kliment Ohridski' (since 2000) and Plovdiv University ‘Paisii Hilendarski' (since 1998). He is a former senior researcher at the Center for Study of Democracy, Sofi a (1996 -2000).
Dr Kanoushev held a number of fellowships at various international research institutions: Centre for Advanced Study, Sofi a (2005-6); Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Graz, Austria (2004); Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2003); and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Societe, Sofi a-Paris (2000-1). His research interests are in the fi eld of norms and deviation, criminal justice and penal power in post-socialist societies, transformations of the institutional practices in Bulgarian post-1989 legal system, corruption and political elites, violence and minors, and the medical construction of mental illness. He has published widely in Bulgarian and international scientifi c journals, contributed to various collections, and is the author of The Social Construction of the Deviant Subject (forthcoming).
