2025 / 3 – Communities and Policies. Issue Editors: Angelina Ilieva, Stela Nenova

The articles in this issue are devoted to various communities in the contemporary world and to the strategies and policies they pursue, examined through specific case studies. The first paper presents policies of memory governance in the Bulgarian context through a legal-anthropological analysis of selected cases of street naming and renaming during periods of political regime change. The next explores the opportunities offered by the cultural and creative industries for the sustainable development of regions, particularly the Gabrovo Region, under the conditions of a market economy and Bulgaria’s membership in the European Union. A contribution further investigates how socially vulnerable communities experience, interpret, and manage disaster situations in the context of limited intervention by local authorities and longstanding marginalisation. The results of a Summer Sports Academy organised for unaccompanied foreign minors seeking international protection are also analysed. In addition, the issue includes a study of the various mechanisms through which ideas of diaspora and transborder ethnic kinship were constructed and experienced within three minority sports and gymnastics organisations in interwar Bulgaria.