On Being Woman, Other and Disabled: Navigating Identity

Author(s): Shahd Alshammari / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This article addresses disability in a Middle Eastern context. It interrogates disability and identity from a Bedouin perspective. The author relays her experiences with a physical disability and society’s stigmatization of different bodies. More often than not, this usually creates psychological traumas and a complex terrain of emotional tensions when dealing with society’s oppression of individuals with disability. The author engages with a discursive discussion of the struggles of navigating spaces of shame, the traumas of stigma, and ultimately healing in finding a voice that is separate from the collective.

Книги 2018

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year.

Дисертации 2018

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

Defended Ph.D. theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies.

IX Дриновски четения „Черно море и Причерноморието като контактна зона на цивилизациите и културите“

Author(s): Mihail Stanchev,Sergey Strashniuk / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

Детският труд и неговата наказателноправна уредба

Author(s): Nadezhda Krasteva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The study is dedicated to the tough fight against child labor and upcoming 20th Anniversary of the adoption of the ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labor. The study pays attention to the importance and contribution of this Convention in limiting the worst forms of child labor. In details are examined some of the worst forms of child labor with the attention to the criminal law protection of the child against the child trafficking, trafficking in children, sexual exploitation of children, child pornography and others in the sense of Bulgarian law. Through this study, the author concludes that Bulgarian criminal legislation is taking care and measures to deal with this growing problem in the conditions of a global economic crisis.

Фашизъм – националсоциализъм

Author(s): Voin Bojinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

After the end of the World War One the old political habits were put under a serious test. The tough consequences of the conflict led to new ideologies that offered quick and easy recipes for coming out of the aftermath of the after military crisis. The Italian fascism, for example, promoted the vision of a strong state, guided by the Fascist Party and its leader. The leader, his party embodied the state. They were its image and content. These understandings were “further developed” by the German National Socialism, which added to them the racial hatred and the idea of the superiority of the Aryan. Everybody knows what the final of these political experiments was.

Предпоставки за възникването и фактори за дейността на предприемаческия елит през епохата на Българското възраждане (начални бележки)

Author(s): Ivaylo Naydenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

This paper presents an unknown photograph from the time immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria. It depicts a collective portrait of the members of the European Commission for the organization of Eastern Roumelia. The photo document is created outside a studio in a natural environment and could be defined as one of the early examples of reportage photography on socio-politicalaffairs that took place on the Bulgarian lands.

Tzvetan Todorov: The West Defined and Defining the East

Author(s): Guergana Gougoumanova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This study explores how the West defines the East in the works of Tzvetan Todorov and how the definition of the West itself shifts with the discovery of the New World in the XVI century. We will take as an example the impression of French travelers in Bulgaria in the XIX century in order to show that the image of the East gets often misunderstood by the West. With the discovery of America, the definition of what West means changes. These definitions are fluid and modifiable and are essential in order to understand how later historical interactions between East and West are carried out.

Experiences from Bringing Together Digitally the Heterogeneous Heritage of Plovdiv

Author(s): Dimitar Minev,Ivan Kratchanov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

National Library Ivan Vazov in Plovdiv is the second biggest library in Bulgaria. It functions as the second national depository of Bulgarian printed output and has contributed significantly to preserving the national cultural and historical heritage. This article offers an overview of the library’s history and current developments in the field of digitization.

МеДиалог: медиите като логос и диалог?

Author(s): Ventsislav Dimov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The introductory article of the first issue of 'Medialog' journal presents the new academic journal, part of a new media culture portal. 'Medialog' is a journey into the media worlds. 'Medialog' is an invitation to dialogue addressed to academic researchers and university lecturers, PhD students and students; to all who are curious to understand something more and different about media, communications and culture.

Statul – Element fundamental pentru studiul relațiilor internaționale și științelor securității. Repere istorice privind evoluția conceptului de stat.

Author(s): Dragoș - Adrian Bantaș,Ionela Cuciureanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2019

Most international relations theorists regard the state as their primary actor, and the security concept is based too upon the society in its state form. However, the present phase of state existence, was only achieved after an extensive process of human societies' development in this direction, and the current state form, in its turn, is not definitive, as the state-organized societies are still in a continuous process of evolution, characterized by permanent change. In this paper we shall analyze how human societies have traversed the transition from the early stage, based on the itinerant exploitation of natural resources, which requires only an incipient organization,to the proto-state societies, and then, in a later process, we will continue our analysis until we find the model of state that we meet today.

Съгласия и опозиции в дискусията интернализъм – екстернализъм

Author(s): Anna Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article offers arguments for the compatibility of specific types of internalism and externalism in epistemology through a comparative analysis of the approaches based on their aims of investigation. Such compatibility is viewed as possible after the oppositional differences that are related to the elements of justification, are overcome. In this regard, the question about the agents of knowledge is answered, with reference to the thesis about the irreducibility of the internalist condition of reflexive access. Considerations of conceptual clarity and succession are raised with regard to the externalist condition that removes the epistemic arbitrariness in the founding of beliefs.

За нова педагогическа парадигма

Author(s): Nikoleta Mihaleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article explores the relation between education and learning as a means of its implementation and the new type of socio-historical inheritance at the end of the twentieth century, related to changes in the nature of scientific knowledge itself. In the emerging new pedagogical paradigm, the main task is the transition from a center of knowledge to culture-friendly learning, the intellectualization of the learning process, but also its euro-denomination, is becoming more and more intense. It raises the issue of changes in values and new cultural realities in the process of communication, which builds a new type of the whole personality whose mentality unites culture and education. Innovative approaches to humanistic pedagogy and practice are aimed at developing the principles of developing learning, collaboration and creativity.

Научное наследие Золотого века ислама

Author(s): I. E. Suleimenov,A. A. Moldazhanova,E. E. Kopishev,G.B. Niyazova,Z.M. Yegemberdiyeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2019

The article considers the problems of scientific knowledge in conjunction with the formation of a person in the modern information space. Various philosophical schools and their concepts about the process of cognition, as well as the evolution of these views, are considered. A comparative analysis of modern Western European thought and the heritage of the philosophers of the “Golden Age of Islam” has been carried out. Based on the analysis, a conclusion is made about the need to set new tasks for such a discipline as social pedagogy.

Русский язык в современном мире

Author(s): Valeriy Efremov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016

Various sociolinguistic changes (i.e. vulgarization, Americanization, the impact on the literary language of other substandard strata, etc.) have a direct impact on the evolution of the words describing the basic social and cultural concepts like ‘man’ and ‘woman’. The study of such nominations is possible to explicate both surface and deep transformation of modern language picture of the world and Russian linguistic mentality.

Гендерные стереотипы в русской рекламе

Author(s): Valeriy Efremov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016

Modern advertisement not only transmits traditional stereotypes into society but also creates new gender ones, which define the gender aspect of the modern consumer’s life-vision. Cognitive units as gender stereotype or gender asymmetries play important roles in creating and reception of a commercial text because if they are used incorrectly, they might cause a gender conflict. A plan for analysis of a commercial text which helps to explicate its gender subcomponent is provided in the conclusion of the article along with typical exercises for students on advertisement analysis.

THE REFUGEE CRISIS, BREXIT AND THE RISE OF POPULISM: MAJOR OBSTACLES TO THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESS

Author(s): Valeri Modebadze / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This article describes the main challenges that the European Union is facing over the last years. It also analyzes the European Integration process and the emergence of the European Union. European integration process began after the Second World War. European politicians realized that “the old continent”, which was destroyed and razed to the ground, needed unification in order to play more important role in the bipolar international system. The European integration was a step by step process, which reached its culmination after signing the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, when the European Union was formally established. The European Union created very favorable ground for free movement of people, goods, services and capital within the internal market. Despite these positive developments, new threats emerged over the last years that can put an end to the European integration process. From these threats and challenges, particular attention is dedicated to Britain’s exit from the European Union (Brexit), rise of radicalism and populist parties, migration crisis and a heightened terrorism threat.

Книги 2018–2019

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 38/2019

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year

Периодика 2018–2019

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 38/2019

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies

Русский язык современной России

Author(s): Lyudmila Verbitskaya / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2016

Interview with Prof. Lyudmila Verbitskaya, DSc., President of the Russian Academy of Education