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Процесът на модернизация е свързан с ново дефиниране на границите между публичен и частен живот, с появявата на нови роли на жените и участието им в обществения живот. Централно място в модернизационния проект на младите балкански нации... more
Процесът на модернизация е свързан с ново дефиниране на границите между публичен и частен живот, с появявата на нови роли на жените и участието им в обществения живот. Централно място в модернизационния проект на младите балкански нации заема идеологията на национализма. Както показват редица изследвания на балканския национализъм от перспективата на жените, категорията пол е необходима, за да се анализира различното значение, което националните модернизационни проекти са имали за мъжете и жените. С този текст ще се опитам да добавя още един щрих към връзката модернизация - национализъм – пол като разгледам примера на едно женско дружество в периода от 70-те години на XIX до 40-те години на ХХ в.*
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Since the early 1990s, female labour migration from Bulgaria has become a common practice and has acquired unprecedented dimensions. In this paper I will address the characteristics of the most popular form of the Bulgarian female labour... more
Since the early 1990s, female labour migration from Bulgaria has become a common
practice and has acquired unprecedented dimensions. In this paper I will address the
characteristics of the most popular form of the Bulgarian female labour migration to
Italy, namely work as caregivers of old people, sick family members and children. The
specificity of work – from the decision to get employed abroad as domestic care workers
– through its practice to its meaning for the families of the female migrants marks it
as an intersection point of pure economic goals and relationships, on the one hand, and
moral ones, on the other. This defines my research problem: to analyse the moral economy
of care from the perspective of women care workers.
practice and has acquired unprecedented dimensions. In this paper I will address the
characteristics of the most popular form of the Bulgarian female labour migration to
Italy, namely work as caregivers of old people, sick family members and children. The
specificity of work – from the decision to get employed abroad as domestic care workers
– through its practice to its meaning for the families of the female migrants marks it
as an intersection point of pure economic goals and relationships, on the one hand, and
moral ones, on the other. This defines my research problem: to analyse the moral economy
of care from the perspective of women care workers.
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After the 1960s the international tourism was developed as an important economic branch of Eastern European countries and space where the economic interests, ideol-ogy, consumption, and social policies were entangled. In this study, I... more
After the 1960s the international tourism was developed as an important economic branch of Eastern European countries and space where the economic interests, ideol-ogy, consumption, and social policies were entangled. In this study, I will undertake a historic-anthropological analysis of international tourism in Bulgaria in the time of late socialism, which is based on a case study of Borovetz, the biggest Bulgarian mountain resort during socialism. The research question addressed are: how the re-gime was trying to establish legitimacy through tourism – among Bulgarian citizens and internationally, which is the role of the ideological confrontation with the West in the period of the Cold War and which are the leading strategies in the management and the work culture in the branch of international tourism at that time.
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The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of the concept of totalitarianism in Bulgarian public discourse since the 1980s. The main focus lies on academic and political discourses, started with Zhelyu Zhelev’s book published in 1982,... more
The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of the concept of totalitarianism in Bulgarian public discourse since the 1980s. The main focus lies on academic and political discourses, started with Zhelyu Zhelev’s book published in 1982, "Fascism. A documentary study on the German, Italian and Spanish fascism", and developed after the fall of the Communist regime (1989). The content of the concept, dynamics and criticism of it are analyzed. It is concluded, that the disputes for and against totalitarianism divide the academic field and public memory. The proponents of the theory of totalitarianism insist on remembering the terror, the camps, deportations, suppression, and non-freedom under Communism. On the other hand, the supporters of the left are reluctant to use the term totalitarianism or relate it only to the period of Stalinism.
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Since the early 1990s, female labour migration from Bulgaria has become a common practice and has acquired unprecedented dimensions. In this paper I will address the characteristics of the most popular form of the Bulgarian female labour... more
Since the early 1990s, female labour migration from Bulgaria has become a common practice and has acquired unprecedented dimensions. In this paper I will address the characteristics of the most popular form of the Bulgarian female labour migration to Italy, namely work as caregivers of old people, sick family members and children. The specificity of work – from the decision to get employed abroad as domestic care workers – through its practice to its meaning for the families of the female migrants marks it as an intersection point of purely economic goals and relationships, on the one hand, and moral ones, on the other. This defines my research problem: to analyse the moral economy of care from the perspective of women care workers.
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After the 1960s the international tourism was developed as an important economic branch of Eastern European countries and space where the economic interests, ideology, consumption, and social policies were entangled. In this study, I will... more
After the 1960s the international tourism was developed as an important economic branch of Eastern European countries and space where the economic interests, ideology, consumption, and social policies were entangled. In this study, I will undertake a historic-anthropological analysis of international tourism in Bulgaria in the time of late socialism, which is based on a case study of Borovetz, the biggest Bulgarian mountain resort during socialism. The research question addressed are: how the regime was trying to establish legitimacy through tourism – among Bulgarian citizens and internationally, which is the role of the ideological confrontation with the West in the period of the Cold War and which are the leading strategies in the management and the work culture in the branch of international tourism at that time.
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The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of the concept of totalitarianism in Bulgarian public discourse since the 1980s. The main focus lies on academic and political discourses, started with Zhelyu Zhelev’s book published in 1982,... more
The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of the concept of totalitarianism in Bulgarian public discourse since the 1980s. The main focus lies on academic and political discourses, started with Zhelyu Zhelev’s book published in 1982, "Fascism. A documentary study on the German, Italian and Spanish fascism", and developed after the fall of the Communist regime (1989). The content of the concept, dynamics and criticism of it are analyzed. It is concluded, that the disputes for and against totalitarianism divide the academic field and public memory. The proponents of the theory of totalitarianism insist on remembering the terror, the camps, deportations, suppression, and non-freedom under Communism. On the other hand, the supporters of the left are reluctant to use the term totalitarianism or relate it only to the period of Stalinism
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Immediately after seizing power on 9.09.1944, the Communist-dominated government of the Fatherland Front (FF) in Bulgaria launched a coherent policy for establishing control over all areas of public life. The new government undertook a... more
Immediately after seizing power on 9.09.1944, the Communist-dominated government of the Fatherland Front (FF) in Bulgaria launched a coherent policy for establishing control over all areas of public life. The new government undertook a number of repressive measures - so-called "purge" (unknown before Russian word – “chistka”) - in regard to teachers and University professors, announcing that it followed the program of the FF which provisioned clearing the state apparatus from "fascist elements". The "cleansing” of the teaching staff in higher education institutions was not a single act. Under the slogan for de-fascism, professors declared as "fascists" and reactionaries, were sequentially removed and their place was taken by people loyal to the new government. This process continued over a decade in parallel to the changing composition of students ( the subject of class-party selection) and the change in the curriculum. As a result - the system of higher education and science had been transformed according to the Soviet model to become an instrument for achieving the big goal - the creation of new, loyal to the regime, intelligentsia.
The article is based on historical-anthropological research on the purge in the Law Faculty at Sofia University. The substitution of the University elites was taking place by opposing one generation to another. In the decade of the purge fear, suspicion, distrust, and spying were cultivated at the University; tempted by the possibility of an academic career were those who were willing to cooperate with the new government in the carrying out of the "revolutionary transformation." Thus the Law Faculty of the Sofia University was modified from a "nest of fascists" to become a faculty for modeling future party and state elite, loyal to the Party. So it is hardly surprising that even in the years of late socialism and “perestroika” the freethinking and dissent were seen as a sign of deviation and rarely occurred.
The article is based on historical-anthropological research on the purge in the Law Faculty at Sofia University. The substitution of the University elites was taking place by opposing one generation to another. In the decade of the purge fear, suspicion, distrust, and spying were cultivated at the University; tempted by the possibility of an academic career were those who were willing to cooperate with the new government in the carrying out of the "revolutionary transformation." Thus the Law Faculty of the Sofia University was modified from a "nest of fascists" to become a faculty for modeling future party and state elite, loyal to the Party. So it is hardly surprising that even in the years of late socialism and “perestroika” the freethinking and dissent were seen as a sign of deviation and rarely occurred.
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Seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts 1 hat die bulgarische Gesellschaft den Wechsel etlicher politischer und ökonomischer Regime erlebt. In dieser Zeit treten auch tiefe Veränderungen in Struktur und Form der Familie ein, in den Familienrollen,... more
Seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts 1 hat die bulgarische Gesellschaft den Wechsel etlicher politischer und ökonomischer Regime erlebt. In dieser Zeit treten auch tiefe Veränderungen in Struktur und Form der Familie ein, in den Familienrollen, den öffentlichen Diskursen über die Familie, über Männer und Frauen in Gender-Ideologien und Kulturen. Ich werde in diesem Beitrag versuchen, die grundlegenden Charakteristika der Gender-Ordnung des Postsozialismus darzustellen, wobei ich den Schwerpunkt auf zwei wesentliche Bereiche der Lebenswelt lege: Arbeit und Familie. Arbeit und Familie sind zwei wichtige Bereiche für die Realisierung der Geschlechter und die Beziehungen unter ihnen. 2 In der Art wie beides im Alltag verbunden wird, ist die postsozialistische gender order projiziert. Bekanntlich ist sie nicht unabänderlich – sie wird in den täglichen 1 1878 wird die Autonomie des Fürstentums Bulgarien vom Osmanischen Imperium anerkannt und 1908 wird die Unabhängigkeit des Zarentums Bulgarien proklamiert.
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Докладът разглежда промяната на теоретичната парадигма на българската етнография след 1989 г. и етнологичните изследвания на съвремеността.
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in: Contested heritage and Identities in Post-socialist Bulgaria. A. Luleva, I. Petrova, S. Barlieva (eds.), Sofia: Gutenberg Publ. House, 2015
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Informal practices were part of work culture under the regime of state socialism in Bulgaria, and have retained a place in the post-socialist market economy. This article focuses on the dynamics and interrelationships of formal and... more
Informal practices were part of work culture under the regime of state socialism in Bulgaria, and have retained a place in the post-socialist market economy. This article focuses on the dynamics and interrelationships of formal and informal practices in the post-socialist period. Surveying the mountain resort of Borovetz, it shows how the culture of informality has been transformed under the new conditions that followed privatization of the tourist services.. The author examines the participation of women in the tourism industry in the new economic context, and discusses the claim that Bulgarian women working in this sector of the economy have been among the “winners” of the transition, having an “advantage” over men and women working in other sectors.
В: Казаларска, С. и Л. Пейчева (съст.). (2014). Виж кой говори: комуникационни и интерпретационни модели в музея. София: Академично издателство "Проф. Марин Дринов", стр. 7 - 16.
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The reference to “Traditions” is increasingly a part of the public discourse in Bulgaria. “Return to the lost traditions” gave legitimacy to the elites and weight to the arguments for the need for political and economic reforms after... more
The reference to “Traditions” is increasingly a part of the public discourse in Bulgaria. “Return to the lost traditions” gave legitimacy to the elites and weight to the arguments for the need for political and economic reforms after 1989. Since 2007, when Bulgaria became a member of the European Union, the re/traditionalisation is no longer expressed as a return to the values of the pre-socialist past, but rather as a turn to ethnocultural nationalism, influencing ever more the political rhetoric. The paper aims to problematize the uses of the “Tradition” as a concept and cultural practice and to analyze its relationship with the process of re/traditionalisation. It is based on the ethnographic study of the Kalofer horo case. The conclusion is, that the emic essentialisation and reification of Tradition and the rise of the re/traditionalisation are signs of the rediscovery of the "traditional" and the ethnic culture as a strong identification resource. Re/traditionalisation is a part of the “hot” ethnocultural nationalism that postulates a community of blood and language with an excluding discourse on the other ethnic and religious communities in the country.
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The goal of the international interdisciplinary conference is to discuss various aspects of socialism/communism and its impact on the present. The emphasis is on (re)thinking - it is our aim to thematize the state of research on... more
The goal of the international interdisciplinary conference is to discuss various aspects of socialism/communism and its impact on the present. The emphasis is on (re)thinking - it is our aim to thematize the state of research on socialism, to illuminate new fields and to add new details to the knowledge of the period.
We are looking forward to proposals for papers that address issues related to the following (suggested) themes: theoretical approaches and methodological challenges in the research of socialism/communism; the socialist lifestyle in the transnational perspective and in the particular national socio-cultural context of the countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe; empirical studies and case studies on everyday culture during socialism: material culture, labour, leisure, festivity, public and private life, strategies for coping with socialist everyday life, gender regimes; policies of memory and oblivion.
We invite researchers working in the fields of social and cultural anthropology, social history, European ethnology, sociology and political sciences. An edited volume of selected conference papers is to be published.
We are looking forward to proposals for papers that address issues related to the following (suggested) themes: theoretical approaches and methodological challenges in the research of socialism/communism; the socialist lifestyle in the transnational perspective and in the particular national socio-cultural context of the countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe; empirical studies and case studies on everyday culture during socialism: material culture, labour, leisure, festivity, public and private life, strategies for coping with socialist everyday life, gender regimes; policies of memory and oblivion.
We invite researchers working in the fields of social and cultural anthropology, social history, European ethnology, sociology and political sciences. An edited volume of selected conference papers is to be published.
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The goal of the international interdisciplinary conference is to discuss various aspects of socialism/communism and its impact on the present. The emphasis is on (re)thinking - it is our aim to thematize the state of research on... more
The goal of the international interdisciplinary conference is to discuss various aspects of socialism/communism and its impact on the present. The emphasis is on (re)thinking - it is our aim to thematize the state of research on socialism, to illuminate new fields and to add new details to the knowledge of the period.
We are looking forward to proposals for papers that address issues related to the following (suggested) themes: theoretical approaches and methodological challenges in the research of socialism/communism; the socialist lifestyle in the transnational perspective and in the particular national socio-cultural context of the countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe; empirical studies and case studies on everyday culture during socialism: material culture, labour, leisure, festivity, public and private life, strategies for coping with socialist everyday life, gender regimes; policies of memory and oblivion.
We invite researchers working in the fields of social and cultural anthropology, social history, European ethnology, sociology and political sciences. An edited volume of selected conference papers is to be published.
We are looking forward to proposals for papers that address issues related to the following (suggested) themes: theoretical approaches and methodological challenges in the research of socialism/communism; the socialist lifestyle in the transnational perspective and in the particular national socio-cultural context of the countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe; empirical studies and case studies on everyday culture during socialism: material culture, labour, leisure, festivity, public and private life, strategies for coping with socialist everyday life, gender regimes; policies of memory and oblivion.
We invite researchers working in the fields of social and cultural anthropology, social history, European ethnology, sociology and political sciences. An edited volume of selected conference papers is to be published.