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
Recording:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YxWiPJDdYccfqo8T3E8wcZ9sJIz30rxM/view?usp=drive_link
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
Recording:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x24xVPfLl9bV3h2071Mhvvk5mNwPkT6m/view?usp=drive_link
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'