Neither Nature Nor Progress: Unearthing Memories and Affects on the Flowering Benches of Kremikovtsi Open-pit Mine

Savova, Slava

Slava Savova

Slava Savova is a doctoral student, and a member of the project “Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good” project (ERC-2019-SyG - ERC Synergy Grant). She holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh School of Architecture (2012) and a master’s in Choral Conducting from the National Academy of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria (2008). Her doctoral research, part of the “Leviathan” project, focuses on the postwar balneosanatoria in Bulgaria, seen as a nexus between the social, healthcare, and economic policies, and the exploitation of natural resources.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 9June 20, 2024<June 20, 2024

Neither Nature Nor Progress: Unearthing Memories and Affects on the Flowering Benches of Kremikovtsi Open-pit Mine

Slava Savova

Drawing on fieldwork, interviews, and audiovisual methods, Slava Savova examines the ecological and social legacies of the abandoned industrial site of Kremikovsti, Bulgaria, and reflects on its status as a perpetually in-between space of anthropogenic nature.