Add to calendar
iCal calendarThis time "Inimkond" we are welcoming Tarmo Pikner from Tallinn University. He will discuss his paper entitled "Entangled backyards of quasi-urbanity" with us. The seminar will take place on November 26th, from 6-8pm, in room T-415 (Tallinn University Terra building). Looking forward to seeing you there.
See also the event on Facebook!
Abstract:
Houses and even cities have their backyards. Growing cities stretch their long arms towards resources and distribute waste of production across the globe. Urbanisation influences how we think and enact nature-culture assemblages. The backyard as a provocative metaphor can push us to rethink some affinities and ruptures associated with nature. This paper brings together some of my studies on urban life in Estonia and beyond, and focuses on multiple framings of nature along creative tensions, which make meaningful dimensions of environment visible and distribute cognition. Some theoretical aspects are presented together with three examples from Estonia including the re-design of industrial ruins, collective mapping of illegal waste, and practices of allotment gardening.
About the speaker:
Tarmo Pikner is a researcher at the Centre for Landscape and Culture at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University. He holds doctoral degree in human geography from the University of Oulu in Finland. Pikner’s current research focuses on affects and boundaries entangled with urban natures, and spheres of being-together in late-modern transformations. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals and edited books. Pikner also lectures in the MA-program of Urban Governance at Tallinn University.
Seminar Series:
Inimkond: Current Issues in Anthropology and Beyond
full program at http://www.tlu.ee/en/estonian-institute-of-humanities/Anthropology/inimkond
This seminar series features speakers from anthropology and related fields, and fosters discussion of their research with a transdisciplinary audience. It aims to contribute to the culture of academic scholarship and debate at Tallinn University. Speakers include both local researchers and guests from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and with various takes on anthropological theory and methods. Presentations in the seminar series will be of interest to staff and students in anthropology, cultural theory, sociology, and history, among others.