Miglena S. Todorova, "Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
New Books in Eastern European Studies
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Epistemology of Doubt
I think it speaks a lot to about how the transnational and transnational experiences can really shape our experiences personally but also our professional experiences. So out of that I developed what I call a feminist epistemology of doubt, specifically both socialist feminist Epistemology of Doubt. And so it comes from the idea that within the same century a place is like Bulgaria when through a constitutional monarchy after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire,. Then in the 1946 it became a communist, a socialist state, then 30 years later the whole thing collapsed and it became a neoliberal kind of capitalist economy and state. These are huge transformations; my grandparents, my parents, my own generation, we live through these
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