proposal: boundaries of air and migration
our task
▪ Tracing how objects, bodies, plants, organisms and places are linked into
relations of mutual shaping and interdependence
▪ Emphasis 1: tracing shifting boundaries of waste, residue, raw materials and
resource and how they facilitate, diffract and/or redistribute life-enabling or
constraining potentials and capacities across times and scales
▪ Emphasis 2: unpacking less noticeable tensions, collaborations, solidarities and
attunements emerging from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ of land, bodies,
ecosystems, or soils, etc.
- Feel free to set your own focus within the main objectives of this program
Key Steps (in preparation of field week)
▪ Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study
▪ Conduct preparatory research on de/re-composition of elemental flows they
embody and to what effect
▪ Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in an idea paper on the
course wiki
o 5+ sentences background info,
background:
Estonia's accession to the EU in 2004 regulated the air pollution of local power plant emissions. In order to stay within its now tighter standards, the estonian power plant industry underwent a large reduction. One of the biggest buildings in Narva was the power plant and it is now almost empty. (ref) The buildings we are visiting K.., the ghost towns
I hypothesise that such economic consequences of EU's accession have reshaped the Narva population and the local labour force. I want to trace.
o 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research
question, anticipated outcomes
o 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
o 5+ references