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Introduction	I’m Roberta Koleva, a social anthropologist writing at the edges of social theory, visual arts, politics, poetry, architecture, and the everyday life. Most of my work is grounded in Bulgaria at the crossroads of post-socialism, political imagination, and the material life of infrastructures. I move between urban spaces and archives, empty villages and contested monuments, and stalled socialist megaprojects, tracing how people live, work, negotiate, and dream in places where the ‘future’ repeatedly fails to arrive, but never quite goes away. In the meantime, this is the space where I will share fragments of my academic and broader work(-in-progress), minute inspirations, visual practice, notes from readings, film and book commentaries, everyday observations and, occasionally, whatever I’m in the mood for.

Introduction

I’m Roberta Koleva, a social anthropologist writing at the edges of social theory, visual arts, politics, poetry, architecture, and the everyday life. Most of my work is grounded in Bulgaria at the crossroads of post-socialism, political imagination, and the material life of infrastructures. I move between urban spaces and archives, empty villages and contested monuments, and stalled socialist megaprojects, tracing how people live, work, negotiate, and dream in places where the ‘future’ repeatedly fails to arrive, but never quite goes away. In the meantime, this is the space where I will share fragments of my academic and broader work(-in-progress), minute inspirations, visual practice, notes from readings, film and book commentaries, everyday observations and, occasionally, whatever I’m in the mood for.