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Nadezhda
Mamontova
History and Archaelogy
Collegium Researcher, Cultural History and European and World History

Areas of expertise

Indigenous people of Siberia and the Arctic
Evenki language and culture
indigenous cartography
toponymic policies
Soviet nationality policy in the North
critical resource studies
geological anthropology

Biography

Before becoming a TIAS collegium researcher Dr. Nadezhda (Nadia) Mamontova was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. In 2020, she completed a PhD at the University of Oxford in the School of Geography and the Environment. Before that she earned a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. She has two Master's degrees with honours in Social Anthropology and Altaic Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities (2009) and the University of Helsinki (2015). Since 2007, she carried out fourteen field expeditions among Evenki and other Indigenous communities in the Russian North. 

Research

The Mistress of the Copper Mountain: Multiple Ways of ‘Knowing’ the Earth in Soviet and Russian Geological Regimes of Power

This research proposes a comprehensive assessment of Soviet and Russian geopower over resource making with a particular focus on the Udokan mountain bearing the copper, discovered in 1949 in the Transbaikal Territory, Siberia. It will examine the evolution of the notion of ‘resources’ in diverse Soviet metrological regimes and practices over the past century to embrace a variety of social, political and cultural questions in their relations to resource extractive industries and to better understand the links between Soviet geopower and current resource making strategies and discourses.

Publications

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