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Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production

Guest Lecture: Linda Kaljundi, Prof of cultural history, EKA, Tallinn

Topics: 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: Monika Halkort, Ass. Prof Transformation Studies, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Key Concepts: Elemental Ethnography, 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
Stengers, I. 2021. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants and Elemental Powers. In: Papadopoulos, D., de la Bellacasa, M.P & Myers, N Reactivating Elements (18-34).Croydon: Duke University Press
Murphy, Michelle, 2017 Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations. IN: Cultural Anthropology 32, no. 4: 494–503. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.02.
Nova, N. & Disnovation.org (2023) Chapters ‘Anthropogenic Landscapes’ & ‘Recombinant Commons’ & ‘On Temporalities’ IN: Bestiary of the Anthropocene. Set Margins'

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-Guest Lecture: Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production
+'''<big>Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production</big>'''
-Linda Kaljundi, Prof of cultural history, EKA, Tallinn
+'''Guest Lecture''': 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
+'''Topics:''' 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
-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:
+'''Conceptual Briefing''': Monika Halkort, Ass. Prof Transformation Studies, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
-Krivy, Maros, 2016 From Mining to Data Mining In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Press, pp. 191 - 202
+'''Key Concepts:''' Elemental Ethnography, techno-natures, feral objects, geo-social formations, queer ecologies, waste, resource, residue
-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
+'''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
+* Stengers, I. 2021. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants and Elemental Powers. In: Papadopoulos, D., de la Bellacasa, M.P & Myers, N Reactivating Elements (18-34).Croydon: Duke University Press
+* Murphy, Michelle, 2017 Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations. IN: ''Cultural Anthropology'' 32, no. 4: 494–503. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.02</nowiki>.
+* Nova, N. & Disnovation.org  (2023) Chapters ''‘''Anthropogenic Landscapes’ & ‘Recombinant Commons’ & ‘On Temporalities’ IN: Bestiary of the Anthropocene''.'' Set Margins'