Ина Димитрова
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ина Димитрова |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ина |
| FAMILY NAME | Димитрова |
| SIGNATURE | ДИМИТРОВА И |
| AFFILIATIONS | Plovdiv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5227-915X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonising Disability in Contexts of Illiberalism and Social Abandonment
This paper explores the relevance of the decolonial approach for analyses of postsocialist disablement, taking as its test case the analytical tool of the 'postsocialist disability matrix'. The question we pose is how much decolonial critique can the analyses of postsocialist disablement embrace without becoming reactionary amidst growing illiberalism and social abandonment in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? We provide an overview of postsocial…
Who Will Take Better Care of Him Than Me?!” Perpetuating Institutional Culture in Families of Children with Disabilities in Bulgaria
The right to live in the community is fundamental and is directly related to the possibility of independent living for persons with disabilities, a central principle of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ratified by Bulgaria in 2012. The opposite of these principles is living in an institution, and being compelled to reside in a space where one does not have the ability or one is not allowed to exercise control o…
Change without Change
The article explores the specificities of mental health and disability advocacy and activism in Bulgaria and demonstrates the persistencе of a “spokespersonship” model that emerged in late socialism and was further entrenched during the postsocialist transition. It enacts a pattern of claiming and staging “allyship” with people with psychiatric diagnoses on the part of professionals that is a rich soil for the inexorable paternalism and absence o…
Epistemic injustice as a bridge between medical sociology and disability studies
This paper explores the potential of the perspective of epistemic injustice to reconcile medical sociology's attention to the micro level of experience and interpersonal exchange, and disability studies' focus on the macro level of oppressive structures. The first part of the paper provides an overview of the concept of epistemic injustice and its key instances-testimonial, hermeneutical, and contributory injustice. We also consider previous appl…
“Labour Is Our Song!” Deaf in the Bulgarian Socialist Work Utopia
How We Raised a Monster
Drawing on Foucault’s analyses of the legal category of “monstrosity” the paper’s focus is the way in which socialism as part of Bulgarian history was largely constructed as a “monster”. It appears that the key characteristics of the latter could be found in the ways we handle this period of history and collective memory. I argue that the concept of “monster” provides a useful entry point for considering the entity “communism”, constructed after …
Epistemic injustice as a bridge between medical sociology and disability studies
This paper explores the potential of the perspective of epistemic injustice to reconcile medical sociology's attention to the micro level of experience and interpersonal exchange, and disability studies' focus on the macro level of oppressive structures. The first part of the paper provides an overview of the concept of epistemic injustice and its key instances-testimonial, hermeneutical, and contributory injustice. We also consider previous appl…
Decolonising Disability in Contexts of Illiberalism and Social Abandonment
This paper explores the relevance of the decolonial approach for analyses of postsocialist disablement, taking as its test case the analytical tool of the 'postsocialist disability matrix'. The question we pose is how much decolonial critique can the analyses of postsocialist disablement embrace without becoming reactionary amidst growing illiberalism and social abandonment in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? We provide an overview of postsocial…
Who Will Take Better Care of Him Than Me?!” Perpetuating Institutional Culture in Families of Children with Disabilities in Bulgaria
The right to live in the community is fundamental and is directly related to the possibility of independent living for persons with disabilities, a central principle of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ratified by Bulgaria in 2012. The opposite of these principles is living in an institution, and being compelled to reside in a space where one does not have the ability or one is not allowed to exercise control o…
How We Raised a Monster
Drawing on Foucault’s analyses of the legal category of “monstrosity” the paper’s focus is the way in which socialism as part of Bulgarian history was largely constructed as a “monster”. It appears that the key characteristics of the latter could be found in the ways we handle this period of history and collective memory. I argue that the concept of “monster” provides a useful entry point for considering the entity “communism”, constructed after …
“Labour Is Our Song!” Deaf in the Bulgarian Socialist Work Utopia
Who Will Take Better Care of Him Than Me?!” Perpetuating Institutional Culture in Families of Children with Disabilities in Bulgaria
The right to live in the community is fundamental and is directly related to the possibility of independent living for persons with disabilities, a central principle of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ratified by Bulgaria in 2012. The opposite of these principles is living in an institution, and being compelled to reside in a space where one does not have the ability or one is not allowed to exercise control o…
Change without Change
The article explores the specificities of mental health and disability advocacy and activism in Bulgaria and demonstrates the persistencе of a “spokespersonship” model that emerged in late socialism and was further entrenched during the postsocialist transition. It enacts a pattern of claiming and staging “allyship” with people with psychiatric diagnoses on the part of professionals that is a rich soil for the inexorable paternalism and absence o…
Epistemic injustice as a bridge between medical sociology and disability studies
This paper explores the potential of the perspective of epistemic injustice to reconcile medical sociology's attention to the micro level of experience and interpersonal exchange, and disability studies' focus on the macro level of oppressive structures. The first part of the paper provides an overview of the concept of epistemic injustice and its key instances-testimonial, hermeneutical, and contributory injustice. We also consider previous appl…
Decolonising Disability in Contexts of Illiberalism and Social Abandonment
This paper explores the relevance of the decolonial approach for analyses of postsocialist disablement, taking as its test case the analytical tool of the 'postsocialist disability matrix'. The question we pose is how much decolonial critique can the analyses of postsocialist disablement embrace without becoming reactionary amidst growing illiberalism and social abandonment in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? We provide an overview of postsocial…
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Disability studies (2 works)