Daniela Koleva
Biographic Data
| ID | 601734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela Koleva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela |
| FAMILY NAME | Koleva |
| SIGNATURE | KOLEVA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9324-4033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructing Old Age in Communist Bulgaria: Ideology, Policy and Science
The article explores the production of knowledge and images of old age in communist Bulgaria, comparing three types of hegemonic discourses, which offer different conceptualizations of ageing and the elderly: the ideological, the political and the scientific. The source for the ideological discourse is the official newspaper Rabotnichesko delo , insofar as it offers representations of old people and their roles in society. The state policies towa…
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory
This article investigates how two Communist forced labour camps, Belene in Bulgaria and Goli Otok in Croatia, became sites of memory and remain icons of political repression and state-organized torture. The article discusses how the public memory of the two camps has been shaped through vivid depictions in former inmates’ memoirs and in works of fiction. It analyzes recent debates about the preservation and institutionalization of these sites of …
Negotiating Transnational Belonging: Post-WWII Migration as Life Experience and Collective Memory
This article explores the subjective experience of nationality and (trans)national belonging based on biographical interviews with two groups of Jewish participants born in Bulgaria before the Second World War, and residing in Bulgaria and in Israel, respectively. I focus on their retrospective accounts of the mass exodus to Israel in 1948–1949 and the maintenance of transnational family and kinship ties thereafter, during the Cold War. The compa…
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case
This article focuses on the emergence and development of gerontology in communist Bulgaria, looking at the interplay of various circumstances: scientific and political, national and international. We ask if an apparently ideologically neutral field of knowledge such as gerontology may have had some intrinsic qualities imbued by the regimes of knowledge production under a communist regime. More specifically, we ask to what extent and in which ways…
Memory Archipelago of the Communist Past: Public Narratives and Personal Recollections
Women beyond the Archive
Review of the book Nurie Muratova, Women beyond the Archive. Invisible Histories of Women in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad: Neofit Rilski University Press, 2021, 272 p.)
The Immortal Regiment and its glocalisation: Reformatting Victory Day in Bulgaria
The article explores a case of memory ‘travel’: a commemorative practice, which emerged as a grassroots initiative in Russia to mark Victory Day, and quickly spread up the state hierarchy and across borders, becoming in a sense global. The focus is on the transformations in the course of its expansion and its subsequent adoption in Bulgaria. I examine how this practice changed the format of Victory Day in Bulgaria, and, on the other hand, how the…
Technology of Dissidence: Action, Passion, Gaze
The article applies a constructivist approach to the idea of dissidence and the ‘figure’ of the dissident. Its first thesis is that it is not only action (i.e. expressions of dissent), which is constitutive of dissidence, but also the price paid for non-conformity: being censored, marginalised, repressed, exiled, even murdered. Therefore suffering (passion in the Christian sense) is no less important than active dissent. The second and main thesi…
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
Negotiating Socialist Lives after the Fall. Narrative Resources and Strategies of the First Socialist Generation in Bulgaria
This article is based on the life stories of about 100 women and men born in the 1920s and 1930s in Bulgaria. The stories were elicited in oral history interviews enquiring into their lives under the communist regime. The starting hypothesis was that, in the absence of a shared public narrative about the socialist past, as is the case in present-day Bulgaria, people would struggle to make sense of their lives during the time of socialism and have…
From Literature to Cultural Literacy
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
Belene: Remembering the labour camp and the history of memory
One does not need to take an interest in the history of state socialism in order to confront the memory of it. However, it has been precisely this interest that has motivated most projects ever sin
Daughters’ Stories: Family Memory and Generational Amnesia
After World War II, most Bulgarian Jews emigrated legally to Israel. Those who stayed had to take part in the building of socialism and integrate in a monolithic "socialist nation." Thereby they had to "forget" their ethnic identity ("aided by the state in various ways) and to become "Homo politicus" rather than "Homo ethnicus." Since 1990, a revival of Jewish identity has begun in Bulgaria. Here I explore how the women of three generations from …
Telling Women’s Lives: Ideology and Practice
Historiography in Bulgaria After the Fall of Communism: Did "The Change" Happen
no abstract
Belene: Remembering the labour camp and the history of memory
One does not need to take an interest in the history of state socialism in order to confront the memory of it. However, it has been precisely this interest that has motivated most projects ever sin
Daughters’ Stories: Family Memory and Generational Amnesia
After World War II, most Bulgarian Jews emigrated legally to Israel. Those who stayed had to take part in the building of socialism and integrate in a monolithic "socialist nation." Thereby they had to "forget" their ethnic identity ("aided by the state in various ways) and to become "Homo politicus" rather than "Homo ethnicus." Since 1990, a revival of Jewish identity has begun in Bulgaria. Here I explore how the women of three generations from …
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case
This article focuses on the emergence and development of gerontology in communist Bulgaria, looking at the interplay of various circumstances: scientific and political, national and international. We ask if an apparently ideologically neutral field of knowledge such as gerontology may have had some intrinsic qualities imbued by the regimes of knowledge production under a communist regime. More specifically, we ask to what extent and in which ways…
Historiography in Bulgaria After the Fall of Communism: Did "The Change" Happen
no abstract
Telling Women’s Lives: Ideology and Practice
Daughters’ Stories: Family Memory and Generational Amnesia
After World War II, most Bulgarian Jews emigrated legally to Israel. Those who stayed had to take part in the building of socialism and integrate in a monolithic "socialist nation." Thereby they had to "forget" their ethnic identity ("aided by the state in various ways) and to become "Homo politicus" rather than "Homo ethnicus." Since 1990, a revival of Jewish identity has begun in Bulgaria. Here I explore how the women of three generations from …
Belene: Remembering the labour camp and the history of memory
One does not need to take an interest in the history of state socialism in order to confront the memory of it. However, it has been precisely this interest that has motivated most projects ever sin
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
From Literature to Cultural Literacy
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
Negotiating Socialist Lives after the Fall. Narrative Resources and Strategies of the First Socialist Generation in Bulgaria
This article is based on the life stories of about 100 women and men born in the 1920s and 1930s in Bulgaria. The stories were elicited in oral history interviews enquiring into their lives under the communist regime. The starting hypothesis was that, in the absence of a shared public narrative about the socialist past, as is the case in present-day Bulgaria, people would struggle to make sense of their lives during the time of socialism and have…
Technology of Dissidence: Action, Passion, Gaze
The article applies a constructivist approach to the idea of dissidence and the ‘figure’ of the dissident. Its first thesis is that it is not only action (i.e. expressions of dissent), which is constitutive of dissidence, but also the price paid for non-conformity: being censored, marginalised, repressed, exiled, even murdered. Therefore suffering (passion in the Christian sense) is no less important than active dissent. The second and main thesi…
The Immortal Regiment and its glocalisation: Reformatting Victory Day in Bulgaria
The article explores a case of memory ‘travel’: a commemorative practice, which emerged as a grassroots initiative in Russia to mark Victory Day, and quickly spread up the state hierarchy and across borders, becoming in a sense global. The focus is on the transformations in the course of its expansion and its subsequent adoption in Bulgaria. I examine how this practice changed the format of Victory Day in Bulgaria, and, on the other hand, how the…
Memory Archipelago of the Communist Past: Public Narratives and Personal Recollections
Women beyond the Archive
Review of the book Nurie Muratova, Women beyond the Archive. Invisible Histories of Women in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad: Neofit Rilski University Press, 2021, 272 p.)
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case
This article focuses on the emergence and development of gerontology in communist Bulgaria, looking at the interplay of various circumstances: scientific and political, national and international. We ask if an apparently ideologically neutral field of knowledge such as gerontology may have had some intrinsic qualities imbued by the regimes of knowledge production under a communist regime. More specifically, we ask to what extent and in which ways…
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory
This article investigates how two Communist forced labour camps, Belene in Bulgaria and Goli Otok in Croatia, became sites of memory and remain icons of political repression and state-organized torture. The article discusses how the public memory of the two camps has been shaped through vivid depictions in former inmates’ memoirs and in works of fiction. It analyzes recent debates about the preservation and institutionalization of these sites of …
Negotiating Transnational Belonging: Post-WWII Migration as Life Experience and Collective Memory
This article explores the subjective experience of nationality and (trans)national belonging based on biographical interviews with two groups of Jewish participants born in Bulgaria before the Second World War, and residing in Bulgaria and in Israel, respectively. I focus on their retrospective accounts of the mass exodus to Israel in 1948–1949 and the maintenance of transnational family and kinship ties thereafter, during the Cold War. The compa…
Constructing Old Age in Communist Bulgaria: Ideology, Policy and Science
The article explores the production of knowledge and images of old age in communist Bulgaria, comparing three types of hegemonic discourses, which offer different conceptualizations of ageing and the elderly: the ideological, the political and the scientific. The source for the ideological discourse is the official newspaper Rabotnichesko delo , insofar as it offers representations of old people and their roles in society. The state policies towa…
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Communism (8 works) · History (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Art (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 works)