Tom Özden‐schilling
Biographic Data
| ID | 110846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Özden‐schilling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Özden‐schilling |
| SIGNATURE | SCHILLING T Ö |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6809-0589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Spiraling out in the Circular Economy: Movement and Belonging at a Malaysian Rare Earth Elements Refinery
The rise of “circular economy” discourse in the extractive industries has altered how researchers, laborers, activists, and consumers conceptualize movements of materials. To proponents, building a circular economy around rare earth elements (REE) production will “close the loop” around extraction, processing, design, manufacturing, and disposal practices to minimize and eventually eliminate all “waste” produced through technology development. Ar…
Varkkey, H. (2021). The forests for the palms: Essays on the politics of haze and the environment in Southeast Asia. Iseas Publishing
Authors of misfortune: Interpretation and Expertise in a Model Disaster
Since 2001, beetles have killed two-thirds of the pine trees in British Columbia, Canada, decimating the predominant commercial tree species in one of the world's largest timber economies. Attempts to construct and circulate computer models of the infestation and its aftermaths, however, have obscured destabilizing changes across state institutions for environmental research. Juxtaposing literary conceptualizations of distributed authorship with …
Desktop Prospecting and Extractivism at Home
Government-run geological surveys have increasingly facilitated exploration for potential mines by inviting novice prospectors to sift through old datasets prior to visiting physical sites, a process known colloquially as desktop prospecting. In northern British Columbia, Canada, some novices have developed sophisticated techniques for analyzing promising signs in these data and narrativizing their own desktop prospecting labor within broader env…
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration
In the early 2010s, a spectacular fall in prices for a class of mineral commodities called the rare earth elements (REEs) and the collapse of hundreds of new exploration companies made clear the fragility of the high-risk markets around these companies and the strategies of legitimation that supported them. New regulatory processes built around technical disclosures generated vast stores of geotechnical data. Rather than generating trust among ma…
Uncertainty's affordances and life downstream: A review essay
Promising resilience: Systems and survival after forestry's ends
Ecologists, social scientists, and policymakers alike define "resilience" as the properties that allow complex systems to function in the wake of sudden shocks. While proponents treat these properties as empirical qualities that can be engineered into existence, critics have largely treated government-organized attempts to do so as consistent with the dismantling of the welfare state. This article offers an ethnographic account of a conservation …
Aging in digital: Simulation and succession in Canadian forestry research
In British Columbia, Canada, aging forestry scientists struggle to pass on long-term projects to younger colleagues who may never arrive. Thanks to the government of British Columbia's radical downsizing of its forestry research institutions, many of these scientists have been forced to reconceptualize the meaning of "succession." Central to this process are computer-based simulations of forest change, which have become critical sites of relation…
Technopolitics in the Archive: Sovereignty, Research, and Everyday Life
This article explores the place of the archive in the context of land claims research. This essay develops a critical approach to identity technopolitics with the aim of helping historians working with indigenous communities to ask new kinds of questions about the relationships and subject positions opened up by archivization and the myriad other technologies of land claims research. Since researchers first began preparing for the Canadian case, …
Amenity Migration Revisited
The dismantling of government research throughout rural North America has altered the ways environmental scientists understand their ties to rural places like northwest British Columbia. As growing numbers of researchers have leveraged their professional mobility to move to small mountain towns and other rural locales-a process known as "amenity migration"-many have increasingly described their role in these transformations through idioms of pers…
Cartographies of Consignment: First Nations and Mapwork in the Neoliberal Era
Anthropological critiques of development on First Nations territories increasingly conflate indigenous participation in government- and corporate-led information gathering projects with a broader resignation to neo-liberal governmentality. New government-authored resource management plans and incremental treaty agreements (e.g., short-term revenue-sharing plans and self-government measures), however, have transformed the defensive research and in…
Cartographies of Consignment: First Nations and Mapwork in the Neoliberal Era
Anthropological critiques of development on First Nations territories increasingly conflate indigenous participation in government- and corporate-led information gathering projects with a broader resignation to neo-liberal governmentality. New government-authored resource management plans and incremental treaty agreements (e.g., short-term revenue-sharing plans and self-government measures), however, have transformed the defensive research and in…
Aging in digital: Simulation and succession in Canadian forestry research
In British Columbia, Canada, aging forestry scientists struggle to pass on long-term projects to younger colleagues who may never arrive. Thanks to the government of British Columbia's radical downsizing of its forestry research institutions, many of these scientists have been forced to reconceptualize the meaning of "succession." Central to this process are computer-based simulations of forest change, which have become critical sites of relation…
Promising resilience: Systems and survival after forestry's ends
Ecologists, social scientists, and policymakers alike define "resilience" as the properties that allow complex systems to function in the wake of sudden shocks. While proponents treat these properties as empirical qualities that can be engineered into existence, critics have largely treated government-organized attempts to do so as consistent with the dismantling of the welfare state. This article offers an ethnographic account of a conservation …
Amenity Migration Revisited
The dismantling of government research throughout rural North America has altered the ways environmental scientists understand their ties to rural places like northwest British Columbia. As growing numbers of researchers have leveraged their professional mobility to move to small mountain towns and other rural locales-a process known as "amenity migration"-many have increasingly described their role in these transformations through idioms of pers…
Authors of misfortune: Interpretation and Expertise in a Model Disaster
Since 2001, beetles have killed two-thirds of the pine trees in British Columbia, Canada, decimating the predominant commercial tree species in one of the world's largest timber economies. Attempts to construct and circulate computer models of the infestation and its aftermaths, however, have obscured destabilizing changes across state institutions for environmental research. Juxtaposing literary conceptualizations of distributed authorship with …
Amenity Migration Revisited
The dismantling of government research throughout rural North America has altered the ways environmental scientists understand their ties to rural places like northwest British Columbia. As growing numbers of researchers have leveraged their professional mobility to move to small mountain towns and other rural locales-a process known as "amenity migration"-many have increasingly described their role in these transformations through idioms of pers…
Cartographies of Consignment: First Nations and Mapwork in the Neoliberal Era
Anthropological critiques of development on First Nations territories increasingly conflate indigenous participation in government- and corporate-led information gathering projects with a broader resignation to neo-liberal governmentality. New government-authored resource management plans and incremental treaty agreements (e.g., short-term revenue-sharing plans and self-government measures), however, have transformed the defensive research and in…
Technopolitics in the Archive: Sovereignty, Research, and Everyday Life
This article explores the place of the archive in the context of land claims research. This essay develops a critical approach to identity technopolitics with the aim of helping historians working with indigenous communities to ask new kinds of questions about the relationships and subject positions opened up by archivization and the myriad other technologies of land claims research. Since researchers first began preparing for the Canadian case, …
Aging in digital: Simulation and succession in Canadian forestry research
In British Columbia, Canada, aging forestry scientists struggle to pass on long-term projects to younger colleagues who may never arrive. Thanks to the government of British Columbia's radical downsizing of its forestry research institutions, many of these scientists have been forced to reconceptualize the meaning of "succession." Central to this process are computer-based simulations of forest change, which have become critical sites of relation…
Uncertainty's affordances and life downstream: A review essay
Promising resilience: Systems and survival after forestry's ends
Ecologists, social scientists, and policymakers alike define "resilience" as the properties that allow complex systems to function in the wake of sudden shocks. While proponents treat these properties as empirical qualities that can be engineered into existence, critics have largely treated government-organized attempts to do so as consistent with the dismantling of the welfare state. This article offers an ethnographic account of a conservation …
Desktop Prospecting and Extractivism at Home
Government-run geological surveys have increasingly facilitated exploration for potential mines by inviting novice prospectors to sift through old datasets prior to visiting physical sites, a process known colloquially as desktop prospecting. In northern British Columbia, Canada, some novices have developed sophisticated techniques for analyzing promising signs in these data and narrativizing their own desktop prospecting labor within broader env…
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration
In the early 2010s, a spectacular fall in prices for a class of mineral commodities called the rare earth elements (REEs) and the collapse of hundreds of new exploration companies made clear the fragility of the high-risk markets around these companies and the strategies of legitimation that supported them. New regulatory processes built around technical disclosures generated vast stores of geotechnical data. Rather than generating trust among ma…
Varkkey, H. (2021). The forests for the palms: Essays on the politics of haze and the environment in Southeast Asia. Iseas Publishing
Authors of misfortune: Interpretation and Expertise in a Model Disaster
Since 2001, beetles have killed two-thirds of the pine trees in British Columbia, Canada, decimating the predominant commercial tree species in one of the world's largest timber economies. Attempts to construct and circulate computer models of the infestation and its aftermaths, however, have obscured destabilizing changes across state institutions for environmental research. Juxtaposing literary conceptualizations of distributed authorship with …
Spiraling out in the Circular Economy: Movement and Belonging at a Malaysian Rare Earth Elements Refinery
The rise of “circular economy” discourse in the extractive industries has altered how researchers, laborers, activists, and consumers conceptualize movements of materials. To proponents, building a circular economy around rare earth elements (REE) production will “close the loop” around extraction, processing, design, manufacturing, and disposal practices to minimize and eventually eliminate all “waste” produced through technology development. Ar…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works)