"Войната на световете" - културен скрипт или предстояща криза?

Author(s): Dimitar Panchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article aims to provide a few examples from the fictional literature, film industry and computer games, all of which directly address the problem of collision between worlds that are incommeasurable. The main suggestion is that the conflict between them can be resolved only through the complete destruction of one of those worlds. This will be the starting point for the analysis of the so-called „clash of civilizations” theme, which was documented during the media monitoring carried out in October 2015. The main argument of the article is that the construction of a generalized negative image of the Other and its systematic exclusion from access to the order of discourse in its essence can become a „self-fulfilling prophecy” (borrowing the term from Robert C. Merton), i.e. this Other becomes the bearer of a crisis which, prior to that, has been ascribed as essential to him. In this way the marginalized elements of society do not have any alternative exit but to be who they are, in line with their ascribed negative identity.

"Всичките са маскари!" Политика, култура и карикатура

Author(s): Dobrinka Parusheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The aim of this text is to elaborate on the relationship between the caricature (and cartoonists) and the objects of caricature, on the one hand, and between the caricature (and cartoonists) and their audience, on the other hand. Using this elaboration I offer a possible entanglement of all three components of the title: politics, (political) culture, and (political) caricature. The interest is focused on Bulgaria during the first decades of the twentieth century.

"Да наваксаш" или тиранията на избора: намерения и резултати при лондончаните от средната класа през 90-те години

Author(s): Tim Butler / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1+2/1999

"Да се разбира": един ранен хайдегериански мотив у късния Бурдийо

Author(s): Svetlana Sabeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2005

The article presents the reflexive sociology of the late Pierre Bourdieu as a hermeneutically founded program. The argumentation is deployed through a ‘close-up view’ of the research perspective of Bourdieu in the collective monograph The Misery of the World. Testimonies and diagnoses of everyday suffering from society (1993). The new moments in field analysis, related to the attention to the microcosm of the place and leading to the concept of ‘positionally determined suffering’, have their reflexive counterpart in the unexpected, almost scandalous to sociological orthodoxy, appearance of the Heideggerian theme of ‘authentic understanding’. By an explication of this motive, the problem of the two modalities of sociological understanding is rendered more acute: on the one hand, the exogenous (‘necessitating’) understanding, as an understanding from the ‘ontological complicity’ between habitus and field, and on the other hand, the endogenous (‘maieutical’) understanding, as an understanding from the hermeneitucal complicity in the mastering of a situation.

"Дискурсивни борби" между френската "мондиализация" и американската "глобализация"

Author(s): Anna Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2004

The following research is a variation on the topic "les mots et les choses" or "who and how name reality?" in the light of two different versions in the discourses on "globalisation" – the French vision of "mondialisation" and the Ame-rican vision of "globalis/z/ation". I argue that behind the alleged terminological dispute "mon-dialisation" versus "globalization" there is a clash between two distinct "narratives" for naming and explaining the changing present. "Constituting a picture of the present" is not just a cognitive act, rather it is a gesture of power – an attempt to rule and control over what is current-ly happening. From this perspective, "globalisa-tion" and "mondialisation" could be interpreted as competitive "representations of reality" behind which different ideologies and interests are being articulated. So, what is in the focus of ana-lysis is the clash between various discourses, or as I call them "discoursive struggles", fighting for power over the present, which will allow me to see who the opponents are, what their arguments are and what ideological positions they take.

"Една българка“: театърът – кауза. Изкуството в полза на образованието

Author(s): Elitsa Mateeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

The subject of this review is the connection between theater and education. An empirical basis for reflection is the performance 'One Bulgarian Woman' - ‘Azaryan’ Theater, National Palace of Culture. The means of critical analysis present the essence of the show, the tasks and goals set by the director Desislava Shpatova and the actress Snezhina Petrova, as well as the team of experts - participants in the project of 'Legal Art Center' - author and engine of a set of activities, dedicated to the work of Ivan Vazov. The review tries to introduce us to the energy of the show, to reveal its specifics, to raise a debate about the need for a new approach in teaching seventh graders in Bulgarian language and literature at their first meeting with the story 'One Bulgarian Woman' by Ivan Vazov. The subject of this review is the connection between theater and education. An empirical basis for reflection is the performance 'One Bulgarian Woman' - ‘Azaryan’ Theater, National Palace of Culture. The means of critical analysis present the essence of the show, the tasks and goals set by the director Desislava Shpatova and the actress Snezhina Petrova, as well as the team of experts - participants in the project of 'Legal Art Center' - author and engine of a set of activities, dedicated to the work of Ivan Vazov. The review tries to introduce us to the energy of the show, to reveal its specifics, to raise a debate about the need for a new approach in teaching seventh graders in Bulgarian language and literature at their first meeting with the story 'One Bulgarian Woman' by Ivan Vazov.

"Ето едно момиче, което не е нямо." За един психоаналитичен прочит на автобиографията на Дорина Ненчева Илиева

Author(s): Janja Jerkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: Special/2011

This text is an attempt to use the ideas of Lacanian clinic in reading the different episodes of the life of Dorina Nencheva Ilieva in bringing to the fore their relation to the unconscious. Dorina’s autobiographic material permits the demarcation of three main themes: Dorina’s subjective position as a woman; the structural necessity that pushes her into oblativity; the adoption of the English language as her main language in the name of adhering to a new Ideal of the Ego. We contemplate the image of a unique and sophisticated woman whose contradictions principally arise from the lack of any signifying element that in the unconscious can tell her what a woman is as well as from an intimate trauma experienced by her, a trauma connected to the symbolic dimension of Dorina’s parental legacy. Due to these circumstances, Dorina tries to make a name for herself in the field of charity so to compensate the wounds that life has inflicted on her. In so doing, she engraves the everlasting name of a Bulgarian woman on the history of Mauritius.

"Женитьба" Н. В. Гоголя на болгарской сцене

Author(s): Tatiana Fed / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2019

The article traces a range of performances staging Gogol’s play Marriage in Bulgaria with a special emphasis on the respective translations into Bulgarian. The theory features translation and adaptation mechanisms specifically applied to cultural realia. The staging in the Sofia Theatre is highlighted. The methodology applied belongs to the framework of cross-cultural communication studies and employs cultural-historic and reception approaches.

"Женският опит": хрониката на една отминала илюзия

Author(s): Tatyana Kotzeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/1995

The paper presents the main moves in the feminist theory since the 60s till nowadays. The category of women's experience is outlined as a central one to delineate the main shifts in feminism as a political movement and standpoint theory. Concepts like "female culture", "women's way of knowing", epistemic vantage point of a marginal knower, etc. are analyzed. The principal points in a critique of feminist essentialism are sketched. The views of J. Scott, G. Spivak, D. Haraway, D. Fuss, who are considered to be among the most influential authors in feminist deconstructionism, are presented. In the final part possibilities for a feminist discourse in East-European perspective are discussed.

"И българските евреи бяха спасени..." Погледи отвън и отвътре върху българската история

Author(s): Irina Nedeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2022

We publish a conversation of the journalist Irina Nedeva with Roumen Avramov, economist and historian, on the occasion of the Bulgarian translation of Nadège Ragaru’s book ‘Et les Juifs bulgares furent sauvés…’. Une histoire des savoirs sur la Shoah en Bulgarie’, Sciences Po. Les Presses, 2020) (“And the Bulgarian Jews were saved...” History of knowledge about the Holocaust in Bulgaria”). The conversation was broadcast on November 8, 2022 in the “Horizont do obed” ("Horizon by noon") program of the Bulgarian National Radio; the text published here is a transcription of it. The questions have been preserved, and in the answers Rumen Avramov has made some stylistic edits, as well as brief substantive additions and clarifications

"Игра на Етнология" - филм без сценарий

Author(s): Mariya Slavcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The access to technical devices that can take pictures and videos with is nothing new for a long time. Moreover, they are used more frequently during the ethnological fieldwork. The aim of the article is to inform and to enlighten the reader with the steps and the difficulties one can face while creating a student ethnological film. It focuses on the decision-making methodology while the movie is made, as well as the problem-solving of the missing screenplay. The Game of Ethnology movie is a result of the common fieldwork of me – Mariya Slavcheva, and Aneliya Avdzhieva, Svetoslava Mancheva, Svoboda Stoeva, Zornitsa Prandzheva – B.A. and M.A. students in Ethnology from the Paisiy Hilendarski University of Plovdiv.

"Играта" като проявление на социо-културни модели на поведение и средство за изследване на терен

По материали от село Аспарухово

Author(s): Svetoslava Mancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

According to Huizinga (Hyoyzinha 2000) "play" is an integral part of the social and cultural processes in which a person is involved. He claims that the socio-cultural reality is created in and through the manifestations of play elements. The comprehensive review of a person's everyday practices helps to understand the reality and the processes therein. The play elements can be observed in the work of the ethnologist and his/her social roles in the fieldwork. The researcher adopts different roles according to the specifics of the reality "there" and "then" and this allows him/her to "play" in his/her research. In the present work, I focus on the manifestations of "play" as an important element of the social and cultural dialogue between groups of people, including the ethnologist as an actor in different situations. The aim is to show a possible view of the results from the fieldwork and the researcher's approach and methods using "play" as an instrument.

"Крехкото, катастрофичното присъства и в най-скритото кътче на света"

Author(s): Ulrich Beck / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2001

Ulrich Beck interviewed by Kolyo Koev

"Криза на науката"? Веберовата програма за историческа социална наука и социално-икономическият анализ на кризата на културата от началото на века

Author(s): Uwe Barrelmeyer / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1+2/1998

"Лицето на българщината": Националният събор за народно творчество в Копривщица и неговите медийни отражения

Author(s): Lozanka Peycheva,Lozanka Peycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2022

The article examines the National festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa – a culmination of the assembly-singing movement – by looking for sustainable media representations of the folklore festivals, which has already been held for twelve editions (between 1965 and 2022). The mechanisms for organization and media coverage are sought in the chronological lines before and after 1989. The focus is on the discourses and presentation of the festival as a manifestation of collective and national identity, “the face of Bulgarianism”

"Лошите кредити": институционални и финансови аспекти, 1994

Author(s): Christina Vutcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian

Since the beginning of 1991 Bulgaria has been living through a period of transition from centralized totalitarian control to free market economy. Year 1990 can be said to mark the political liberation of the people with the adoption of the new Constitution. The economic liberalization, however, is a reality yet to be brought to life since private ownership is not prevalent in the economy. The prime aim of the transition is to substitute an absurd and inefficient economic system for a new one to rely on the free initiative, private ownership and competition.

"МИСТЕРИЯТА" НА ЕДНА ИЛЮЗИЯ

Author(s): Francois Furet / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/1996

An Interview with Prof. Francois Furret

"Можем да изследваме ... следите ... на миналото, ... но не самото минало"

Author(s): Emil Grigorov,Yanya Yerkov,Jasna Koteska,Ivelina Ivanova,Hayden White / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2010

THE DEBATE ON THE PRACTICAL PAST

"Предимствата на изостаналия" — началото на Балканската модернизация

Author(s): Diana Mishkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1995

The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the identity of the processes of modernisation, state-building and nation-building in the Balkans in contrast to their treatment in opposition by many historians and political scientists. Two interpretive views of the Balkans have been challenged: the first characterizes patterns of social and political development in terms of an East-West dichotomy; the second maintains a negative perspective on the political modernization of the newly established Balkan stales, the operation of Balkan politics and Balkan nationalism in particular. The author focuses first on the social background and goals of the Balkan political elites, then on the long-term effects of parliamentary institutions in the late-industrializing Balkan societies, and finally on the state-building and nation-building experiences in the Balkans as compared to those in contemporary Western Europe. The arguments pursued on the basis of this analysis concern the “advantages of backwardness" in the political and social realms and the precedence of political over economic modernization in the case of young nation-states.

"Противоречията на наследството": механизми на (не)наследяване и дискурсивни практики

Author(s): Stoika Penkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: Special/2011

The article presents a possible approach to the analysis of the situation of accepting/transmitting inheritance (in the widest sense) among a migrant group – the one of Bulgarian emigrants to Turkey – and an attempt is made to make explicit its practical logic. To trace the actual ‘sociogenesis’ of the process of inheriting, there must be a double process in its conceptualization: 1) on the one hand, conceptualization of ‘the constitutive dispositions of the habitus’ that are able to generate not only correct actions and practices but also disappointments, tensions, conflict and contradictions, psychological traumas and repressed intentions; 2) on the other hand, conceptualization of the way in which the social order becomes imprinted in the bodies as it ‘collects, channels, reinforces or counteracts psychological processes’. Thus the conceptualization of the process in which, through the figure of ‘inheritance’ social positions and biographic trajectories are ‘eternalized’ in practice, comes out linked to the question how the ‘ontological complicity’ between biographical and social illusio happens when it is possible (as in the case of ‘Bulgarian emigrants’) that their formation is the result of different social conditions. Finally, taking advantage of the specific manner of ‘praxeological understanding’ that permits simultaneously to retain the many points of view and layers in what the respondent ‘testifies’, the article proposes a conception of the contradictoriness itself of the studied agents as heirs. For this purpose, the analysis first dwells on the theoretic justification of the diverse modalities of ‘inheriting’ and then on their empirical verification by the study of specific ‘cases’ that are representative of the studied group.