alternativní vzdělávání
alternativní životní styly a každodenní/všední odpor
avantgarda, neo-avantgarda
cenzura
demokratická opozice
divadelní a performační umění
emigrace/exil
etnická hnutí
film filosofická/teoretická hnutí
folklorní kultura
hnutí menšin
hnutí na obranu lidských práv hudba kritická/nezávislá věda
kultura mladých
literatura a literární kritika media Arts
mírová hnutí
nezávislá žurnalistika
náboženské aktivity
národní hnutí ochrana životního prostředí
odpírači vojenské služby
populární kultura
přeživší perzekuce ze strany autoritativních/totalitních režimů
samizdat sledování, dohled sociální hnutí straničtí disidenti
studentská hnutí undergroundová kultura
vizuální umění
výtvarné umění
vědecká kritika
ženské hnutí
artefakt/umělý výrobek
film
fotografie
grafika
hudební nahrávky
jiné jiný umělecký předmět
kreslené vtipy, karikatury, komiksy
nábytek
oděvy
právní a/nebo finanční dokumentace publikace předměty užitého umění rukopisy
sochy suvenýry video nahrávky vybavení
výtvarné umělecké dílo zvukové nahrávky šedá literatura
This interview collection provides fascinating insights into the barely known everyday culture of grassroots Catholic communities under late socialism. Sociologist István Kamarás’ research collection represents an alternative lifestyle which never suited the official communist ideology.
The collection was established in the period from 2010 to 2016. It includes personal memories and materials of members of the Turkish minority of Bulgaria, who today live in different countries, most of them in Turkey. The collection sheds light on the life of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria and their responses to the contradictory politics, in long periods - discriminatory and assimilatory, of the socialist state.
The Roma Archive is the first digital collection devoted specifically to the Roma community in Bulgaria. Its aim is to show the history and memories of a people which have been invisible to the general Bulgarian public, and who are usually portrayed by the media in terms of deviant social and cultural behavior. The collection was created by the Balkan Society for Autobiography and Social Communication (BSASC). It includes numerous autobiographic interviews, rich visual materials, and a variety of other documents and images containing information on the Roma community in Bulgaria taken from Bulgarian State archives.
One of the main themes of the collection is the fate of the Roma minority under communism, during which it was subjected to frequent assimilation campaigns and when expressions of Roma culture was severely restricted. The collection aims to contribute to the democratization of historical knowledge, raising the profile of Bulgaria’s Roma community as well as increasing awareness within the community of the value of historical documents. At the same time, the ongoing process of building the collection itself contributes to overcoming ethnocentricity in Bulgaria’s education system. It strengthens intercultural dialogue and aids in the educational potential of Roma community members. The Roma Archive help makes the Roma more visible in Bulgarian society, education, and academia.
The collection reflects, on the one hand, the oppositional activity of the Romanian Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church towards the communist regime, and, on the other hand, the intense surveillance and harsh repression of this Church carried out by the repressive apparatus of the communist authorities. The Romanian Greek Catholic Church Ad-hoc Collection represents the most comprehensive collection of documents, which illustrates the multilayered resistance to dictatorship of one of the most repressed religious groups in communist Romania and its vivid underground religious activity from 1948 to 1989.