„Wir sind hier so ziemlich eingesperrt“

Vulnerabilitäten, Resilienzen und Raum: Die Umweltstruktur von Bakonyszentlászló/Ungarn

Abstract

Climate change is not only a physical process but also a social and cultural transformation
that reshapes how people understand themselves, others, and their environment. In reference
to Thorsten Heimann (2017), collectively shared perceptions, knowledge, and practices
of vulnerability and resilience can be called a climate culture embedded in specific spatial,
historical, and political contexts. Using an ethnographic approach, this paper examines
the west-Hungarian village of Bakonyszentlászló as a case study to explore how a local community
constructs its climate culture and how vulnerability, resilience, and knowledge interrelate
in everyday practices. Our findings highlight that local perceptions of climate
change are shaped strongly through situated experiences of loss, adaptation, and power
asymmetries. We argue that these processes form part of a broader environmental culture
that links ecological, social, and political dimensions and reshapes how communities relate
to their environment, to institutions, and to themselves.