Introduction

I am an anthropologist of work and energy transitions. My research has focused on global location-independent workers and post-Soviet working class in Estonia and Kazakhstan, looking at the labour process, gender at work, work ethic, industrial health and safety.

I have carried out long-term fieldwork among miners in Estonia and Kazakhstan, analysing work processes and occupational safety; gender, class and ethnic relations in the workplace and mining communities in rapidly changing post-socialist societies. I can now use this knowledge to understand the challenges of mining regions (especially Ida-Virumaa) in the transition from a carbon-intensive economy.

I have been studying the impact of the energy transition on Ida-Viru County and on oil shale workers in the project "CINTRAN", and in 2024-2026 I will participate in two Horizon Europe projects with a focus on employment and skills in Ida-Viru County, the energy sector and trade unions.

Areas of research

anthropology of work, mining, postsocialist working class, ethnographic study of the labour process, COVID-19 and remote work