Environmental humanities

2025

(under development) Antonova, A.S. & L.S. Gora “Storying Salicornia: Cuisines, Coastlines, and Salty Futures.” To be submitted with Environmental Humanities.

(under development) Straß-Senol, H. & Antonova, A.S. (eds.) "One Book - Many Worlds: Amitav Ghosh in Munich." Virtual exhibition to be published on the RCC Environment and Society Portal.

2024

Antonova, A.S. “Regimes of value: Economic transformations, ecological livelihoods, and salt cooperatives on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space OnlineFirst: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X241295521 

2023

Antonova, A.S. “Sustaining transformations: Changing marine governance, environmental meaning, and ‘left behind’ Brexit narratives on the Yorkshire East Coast.” Maritime Studies 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-022-00290-1     

Antonova, A.S. “Toxicity flows and the outfall of modernity on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.” In: S. Müller and M. B. O. Nielsen (eds), Toxic Timescapes, Ohio University Press: 130-152, https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/19/ 

Antonova, A.S. “България в ерата на антропоцена? Хуманитарните науки, обществените трансформации и околната среда (Bulgaria in the Anthropocene: Social transformations and the relevance of the environmental humanities).” Seminar_BG 25, https://seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/broy25/846-bulgaria-v-erata-na-antropotsena.html

2022

Antonova, A.S. & A. van Dam. “Environment and integration on the edge of Europe.” Political Geography 93: 102554, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102554

2021

Antonova, A.S. “Debating landscape citizenship on the coast: Conflicting views from the Bulgarian Black Sea and Yorkshire North Sea shores.” In: T. Waterman, E. Wall, and J. Wolff (eds), Landscape Citizenships. Routledge: 40-56

Antonova, A.S. “Blending environmental humanities and policy studies: A narrative analysis approach to hybrid scholarship on the coast.” In: M. Gustavsson, C. White, J. Phillipson, and K. Ounanian (eds), Researching People and the Sea: Methodologies and Traditions. Palgrave: 285-308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59601-9_13

2020

Antonova, A.S. "Transformations, crises, and contestations in narratives about environment and society on the Yorkshire North Sea and Bulgarian Black Sea coasts." PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, UK, https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/28007/

2019

Antonova, A.S. “Salt symbiosis on the Black Sea.” 360° video first shown at Deutsches Museum in Munich (Umweltschmerz exhibition Oct. 17-20, 2018), now in the “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey” virtual exhibition, Environment & Society Portal, https://youtu.be/W6-1aBAhJ_U

2018

Carruthers-Jones, J. & A.S. Antonova. “Rethinking wild spaces and species – a sensory journey.” Multisensory exhibition at Sawyer Library, Inverewe Gardens and Estate, National Trust for Scotland (June 9 – July 19)

2020 - 2025

Strengthening Environmental Humanities (LMU Munich, Volkswagen Foundation "University of the Future"), including two sub-projects:

• organized the "One Book - Many Worlds: Munich reads Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh" series of public and university events (2024-2025), including with author Amitav Ghosh (November 2024)

• developed and established Germany's first environmental humanities master's program, MA "Environment and Society," at the RCC

2015 - 2020

PhD Thesis "Transformations, crises, and contestations in narratives about environment and society on the Yorkshire North Sea and Bulgarian Black Sea coasts" (University of Leeds, School of Earth & Environment and School of English)

ENHANCE ITN: Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network)