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Counter-urbanization and “return” to rurality? Implications of COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2021
The studies of the movements between the city and the village generally (especially in Southeastern Europe) refer to analyses of the processes of urbanization, and rarely focus on the so-called counter-urbanization. However, over the past decade,
Pileva Desislava, Markov Ivaylo
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Whoever tramples the breadcrumbs will go blind: Cultural norms regarding feeding children and eating in Bulgarian society. A conversation between Petya Bankova and Vihra Baeva

Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture, 2022
Petya Bankova is Associated Professor in the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria).
Petya Bankova, Vihra Baeva
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Who are Our National Heroes beyond National Borders?

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2021
The focus of this article is on monuments to national heroes built at the initiative of the Bulgarian nation state, political party or migrant community beyond the national borders. Three analytical perspectives are presented: geographical, cultural
Lina Gergova, Yana Gergova
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A Russian Story in the USA: On the Identity of Post-Socialist Immigration

Open Cultural Studies, 2023
This article presents the problem of identity construction among Eastern European immigrants to the USA after so-called “democratic changes.” It is based on the intercultural rather than multicultural approach which considers both the immigrants ...
Anastasova Ekaterina
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Nature For Protection, Nature For Profit

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023
We proceed from the understanding that humans are part of ecosystems, therefore, nature provides people with ecosystem services. At the same time, however, different social actors can perceive and evaluate the same place in totally different ways.
Desislava Pileva, Ivaylo Markov
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Multi-local Actors of Change and Two Religious Sites in Northeast Bulgaria: Between Traditions and New Everyday Practices

Traditiones, 2023
The article analyses the correlations between the two rural religious sites – Akyazılı Baba Tekke (village of Obrochishte) and ‘St. Dimitar’ church (village of Gurkovo) in Northeast Bulgaria – and the multi-local actors of change that contribute to the ...
Yelis Erolova, Vanya Ivanova
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From Conflict to Conviviality? Transforming Human–Bear Relations in Bulgaria

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2021
The question of how to transform human–wildlife relations from conflict to coexistence, rather than merely mitigating conflicts, has become a central focus of research and practice.
Svetoslava Toncheva, Robert Fletcher
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Bulgarian Roma at the Dawn of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Sciences, 2023
With the establishment of the state of emergency in Bulgaria on 8 March 2020 due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, several restrictive measures aimed at social distancing were being introduced, to which the public had a contractionary reaction. The
Mila Maeva, Yelis Erolova
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De re robotica: Posthuman Folklore research, Robotic Pets and Meetings with working Robots [PDF]

In Medias Res, 2023
The last decades have been marked by the development of technology that has led to an increasing number of robots in the human surroundings (outside environment and inside the body), which brings us closer to the realization of posthumanism and ...
Goran Đurđević, Suzana Marjanić
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Transborder Commemoration Routes and Rituals

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2020
L. Gergova, V. Voskresenski, Y. Gergova (eds.). Sofia: Paradigma, 2019, 262 pp.
Ekaterina Anastasova
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