Жизнени преходи и кризи на „млади пенсионери“ в села със „затихващи“ функции – политики и граничност
Life transitions and crises of ‘young retirees’ in villages with ‘fading’ functions – politics and borderline state

Author(s): Anelia Avdzhieva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: young retirees; aging; border villages; mutual aid
Summary/Abstract: In villages with ‘fading functions’ one observes different degrees of activity of an increasingly older population of ‘young retirees’ born in the 1940s and the 1950s – those who never left the villages and the few who have returned. Tracing the life path of some who have stayed and some who have returned, I will outline a few important accents in the perception of the former regime of state socialism as a period of nostalgia in Bulgaria’s border zones then and now, what took place after the 1989 changes, and what does a ‘young retiree’ have to face, either taking the decision to have a nature-consistent way of life or to restore or keep the ‘connection to the roots’. The interest here lies in the forms of local interaction, as well as in the ways to cope with absences – of people, of connections, of desired communication, of health care or institutional support, etc., and the way transitions proceed from town to village, and from work to retirement.

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