GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production

Guest Lecture: Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production

Linda Kaljundi, Prof of cultural history, EKA, Tallinn imperial history of oil shale production (pre-war period, Nazi&Soviet era), entanglement of industrialisation of landscapes and population transfer, economic significance of oil shale (pre and post independence), social and cultural significance of mining (identities, status, belonging, solidarities, attachment to place), risk, accidents, trauma (i.e. the 1988 fire in Estonia mine), dissonant heritage

Conceptual Briefing: Elemental Ethnography Monika Halkort, Ass. Prof Transformation Studies, University of Applied Arts, Vienna Key Concepts: techno-natures, feral objects, geo-social formations, queer ecologies, waste, resource, residue

Reading assignments:

Krivy, Maros, 2016 From Mining to Data Mining In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Press, pp. 191 - 202 Marzecova, Agata, 2016 The Vernacular Geology of the Baltics XXV In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Pres, pp. 202-213 Printsmann, A.; Sepp, M.; Luud, A. (2012). The land of oil-shale: the image, protection, and future of mining landscape heritage. In: Häyrynen, S.; Turunen, R.; Nyman, J. (Ed.). Locality, Memory, Reconstruction: The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-industry Communities. (180−196). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing