{"id":889,"date":"2021-08-16T13:49:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/?p=889"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:49:04","slug":"phd-defence-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/2021\/08\/phd-defence-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD-Defence on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this Friday, 20 August 2021, at 4pm Stockholm Time PhD-Candidate Dmitry V. Arzyutov<\/a> will defend his dissertation with the title “Reassembling the Environmental Archives of the Cold War”. Dima’s opponent is Assistant Professor Bathsheba Demuth<\/a> from Brown University in Providence, USA (State of Rhode Island). We are looking forward together with his supervisors Peder Roberts (Stavanger), Per H\u00f6gselius (KTH) and Julia Lajus (St. Petersburg) to this major event in our division’s PhD-education.<\/p>\n

If you want to join check out the official announcement including the Zoom-link here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Abstract\"Profile<\/strong><\/p>\n

To what extent the environmental history of the Arctic can move beyond the divide between Indigenous peoples and newcomers or vernacular and academic ways of knowing? The present dissertation answers this question by developing the notion of an environmental archive. Such an archive does not have particular reference to a given place but rather it refers to the complex network that marks the relations between paper documents and human and non-human agencies as they are able to work together and stabilise the conceptualisation of a variety of environmental objects. The author thus argues that the environment does not only contain information about the past but just like any paper (or audio and video) archive is able to produce it through the relational nature of human-environment interactions. Through the analysis of five case studies from the Russian North, the reader is invited to go through various forms of environmental archives which in turn embrace histories of a number of disciplines such as palaeontology, biology, anthropology, and medicine. Every case or a \u201clayer\u201d is presented here as a contact zone where Indigenous and academic forms of knowledge are not opposed to each other but, on the contrary, are able to interact and consequently affect the global discussions about the Russian Arctic. This transnational context is pivotal for all the cases discussed in the dissertation. Moreover, by putting the Cold War with its tensions between two superpowers at the chronological center of the present work, the author aims to reveal the multidimensionality of in situ interactions with, for instance, the paleontological remains or the traces of all-terrain vehicles and their involvement into broader science transnational cooperations and competitions. As a result, the heterogeneous archives allow us to reconsider the environmental history of the Russian North and the wider Arctic and open a new avenue for future research transcending the geopolitical and epistemic borders of knowledge production.<\/p>\n

Abstract p\u00e5 svenska<\/strong><\/p>\n

I vilken grad kan en miljh\u00f6historisk analys av Arktis undvika klyftan mellan ursprungsfolk och nykomlingar, samt mellan folkliga och akademiska form f\u00f6r vetenskap? Avhandlingen svarar p\u00e5 denna fr\u00e5ga genom att utveckla begreppet \u201dmilj\u00f6arkiv.\u201d Ett s\u00e5dant arkiv h\u00e4nvisar inte till en s\u00e4rskild plats, men heller till et komplex n\u00e4tverk som samlar ihop f\u00f6rh\u00e5llande mellan dokument i papper och b\u00e5da m\u00e4nskliga och icke-m\u00e4nskliga akt\u00f6rskap. Tillsammans stabiliserar och konceptualiserer de ett antal milj\u00f6objekten. F\u00f6rfattaren argumenterar d\u00e4rf\u00f6r att milj\u00f6 omfattar inte bara information om f\u00f6rtiden men liksom andra form f\u00f6r arkiv (antingen papper-baserat eller elektronisk) kan reproducera f\u00f6rtiden genom att belysa interaktioner mellan m\u00e4nniskor och natur. Genom fem case studier fr\u00e5n det nordliga Ryssland bjudas l\u00e4saren p\u00e5 en tur av fem olika milj\u00f6arkiv som omfattar olika disciplin\u00e4ra traditioner, t. ex. paleontologi, biolog, antropologi, och medicin. Varje case eller \u201dlager\u201d presenteras h\u00e4r som kontaktzon var ursprungliga och akademiska form f\u00f6r vetenskap inte n\u00f6dv\u00e4ndigtvis st\u00e5r i opposition, men tv\u00e4rtom p\u00e5verkar varandra, och d\u00e4rmed f\u00e5r inflytelse \u00f6ver diskussioner om det ryska Arktis \u00e4ven p\u00e5 global niv\u00e5. Denna transnationella kontext \u00e4r avg\u00f6rande f\u00f6r alla cases i avhandlingen. Genom att s\u00e4tta det kalla kriget i analysens centrum (kronologisk sett), med fokus p\u00e5 sp\u00e4nningarna mellan stormakterna, hoppas f\u00f6rfattaren att belysa de flerdimensionella interaktionerna mellan t. ex. paleontologiska fynd och sp\u00e5r fr\u00e5n bandfordon och hur dessa interaktioner var kopplad till bredare fr\u00e5gor kring multinationella samarbete och konkurrens. En s\u00e5 heterogen uppfattning av arkivet \u00f6ppnar f\u00f6r nye perspektiv p\u00e5 milj\u00f6historien av b\u00e5da det ryska Arktis och Arktis set i sin helhet, samt \u00f6ppna f\u00f6r nya forskningsfr\u00e5gor som \u00f6verskrider nuvarande geopolitiske och epistemologiska gr\u00e4nser innanf\u00f6r kunskapsproduktion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Good luck, Dima!<\/em><\/p>\n

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