Identity Development in Small Ethnic Communities in Bulgaria

• Authors: Rumiana Jeleva , Mariana Draganova

Title variants

PL

Rozwój tożsamości w małych społecznościach etnicznych w Bułgarii

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with the issue of identity development of Bulgarian Muslims – one of the minorities in Bulgaria. The basic assumption is that their ethnic (collective) identity has been developed as multiple identities under the primordial, modern, and postmodern features, circumstances and phenomena originated in the historical, political, cultural and socioeconomic environment and relations of power and dominance. Presenting the stories of three representatives of the Bulgarian Muslims minority the paper focuses on how European integration challenges their identity: their limited experiences in Europe were collected as a result of an attempt to escape the economic situation in the country, to get out of the traumas they feel with respect to the Bulgarian majority. Their stories present an interesting mixture of imagination and personal impressions of Europe. The paper explores the use of the qualitative method of autobiographical interview as a method for studding identity construction and development.

PL

Tematem artykułu jest kwestia budowania tożsamości wśród bułgarskich muzułmanów – jednej z mniejszości w Bułgarii. Przyjmujemy założenie, iż ich tożsamość etniczna (zbiorowa) została ukształtowana wielowymiarowo, pod wpływem takich czynników jak: primordialność, nowoczesne i ponowoczesne cechy, zjawiska i zależności zakorzenione w środowisku ukształtowanym przez czynniki historyczne, kulturowe, polityczne i socjoekonomiczne tworzące relacje władzy i dominacji. W artykule prezentujemy narracje trzech przedstawicieli mniejszości bułgarskich muzułmanów i pokazujemy jak integracja europejska staje się wyzwaniem dla ich tożsamości. Ich narracje pokazują interesujące zestawienie wyobrażeń z biograficznym doświadczeniem Europy.

Keywords

EN

identity; ethnicity; Bulgarian Muslims; narrative analysis; perceptions of Europe.

PL

tożsamość; etniczność; bułgarscy muzułmanie; analiza narracji; percepcja Europy

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
• Journal: Przegląd Socjologiczny
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 201-216

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Rumiana Jeleva

• Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge Sofia, Bulgaria

author

Mariana Draganova

• Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge Sofia, Bulgaria

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ISSN

0033-2356