Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova proposed to research and write four pieces as part of the research for a book in progress, Elixir. They focus on life in mountain villages in southern Bulgaria as microcosms of a geopolitically and economically marginalized Europe today, asking urgent questions about inequality and double standards, and what this says about the much-vaunted European values. Among them, “What are the connections between environmental and human health, cultural syncretism and its relationship to tolerance, and is there such a thing as a modern European quasi-slave labor market?”