Sensing environments and ecological anthropology of cultural and natural heritages of the coal region in Bulgaria

Abstract (English)

The paper presents case studies from an ongoing research project about the aspects in the transition of decarbonization in Bulgaria, Europe from an anthropological perspective. The context of European Green Deal is understand by people in the coal regions as an unfair. The proces is highly politices and thus affects the fair ecological transition where the local ecological klowleage is a way for the future development (Dorondel, Şerban (ed.) 2022; Станчева 2019). Biocultural mindmap of the losses - physical and symbolical, and the people at the villages around the coal mining region in Bulgaria "Maritsa Iztok" is made trough sensory ethnography. It shows layers of nature-culture-industry images and interactions The local biocultural knowleage and practices give understanding for sustaining the natural and cultural heritage as a way of local development (Hastrup 2014; Ingold 2014; Златкова 2012). The research aim at revealing attituds toward uses of cultural and natural heritages as local brand and way of dealing with ecological transition.