Shkodrova, Albena (expected in 2025) Social mobility in industrializing communist Bulgaria. Negotiating status in Pernik in the 1950s, European History Quarterly.

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2024) Gender in urban development of post-war Europe. Women’s social position in the planning strategies of Basildon (UK) and Pernik (Bulgaria) in the long 1950s. Women’s History Review, 1–28, doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2024.2398830

 

Shkodrova, Albena (planned Nov 2024) The Entanglement of Food in Nationalism and Communist Nostalgia in Contemporary Bulgaria. Balkanologie.

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2023) “Tripe Soup for All Women!” Transgression of Gender Boundaries as Part of Female Identity in Communist and Contemporary Bulgaria’, Yemek ve Kultur [Food and Culture] N73, Autumn 2023, Istanbul, translation into Turkish from ‘Soudobé Dějiny 28, no. 3 (31 December 2021): 648–75, doi: 10.51134/sod.2021.050.

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2022) Radical Rerofmers or Not Quite? From Vegetarianism to Communist Nutrition in Bulgaria: contrasts and continuities (1925-1960), Baltic Worlds, vol. 1-2/2022, pp 143-153.

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2021) "Tripe Soup for All Women!”. Transgression of gender borders as part of female identity in communist and contemporary Bulgaria, Soudobé dějiny [Contemporary History], journal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vol. 3/ 2021, pp. 648-675.

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2020) “(Re)digesting Communism. Contemplating the late 20th-century East European diets.” In: Shkodrova, Albena, Scholliers, Peter and Yves Segers, eds. Food and Drink in Communist Europe, special issue of Food&History, vol. 18, n 1-2/2020, pp. 11-24. DOI: 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.122027 

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2019) “Home Cooking from ‘Slavery’ to a ‘Right’. The impact of state socialist feminism on domestic cooking practices in Bulgaria”, Food & History, 16/1, DOI: 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.117098

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2018) “Investigating the history of meanings of a dish. An enactivist approach to the life of the Russian salad in 20th century Bulgaria”, Volkskunde. Tijdschrift over de cultuur van het dagelijks leven, 2018 (3), pp 343-366.

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2018) “Rediscovering Europe and national cuisine. How EU integration is shaping food tastes in Sofia and Belgrade in the 21st century.”, Appetite,  First published version available online since 19 October 2018. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.10.022.

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2018) “From Duty to Pleasure in the Cookbooks of Communist Bulgaria. Attitudes to food in the culinary literature for domestic cooking released by the state-run publishers between 1949 and 1989.”, Food, Culture & Society, 25 June 2018. DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2018.1480647

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2018) “Revisiting Coca-Cola’s ‘Accidental’ Entry into Communist Europe” , Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, Vol. 18 No. 2, Summer 2018; (pp. 59-72) DOI: 10.1525/gfc.2018.18.2.59 

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BOOK CHAPTERS​

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Shkodrova, Albena (2023) Domestic cookery manuscripts of the Bulgarian housewife under state-socialism. Actes de la MSH, Forthcoming.

 

Shkodrova, Albena (2018) “In the Network, Out of the Network. Food under Bulgarian communism, as remembered by 15 North American visitors”. In: Food in Central and Eastern Europe. Past-Present-Memory. Eds. A. Drzał-Sierocka and M.Tomaszewska-Bolałek, Gdansk: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, pp. 43-56. ISBN 978-83-65155-92-4

 

EDITED VOLUMES​

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Shkodrova, A., P. Scholliers and Y. Segers (2020) Food and Drink in Communist Europe. Special issue of Food&History.