P T Kalshoven
Biographic Data
| ID | 46334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P T Kalshoven |
| GIVEN NAMES | P T |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalshoven |
| SIGNATURE | KALSHOVEN P T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6011-9236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What do indeterminacy and uncertainty mean in landscape research? Perspectives from natural sciences, social sciences, and arts
Landscapes, intentionally or otherwise, are often planned and managed in ways that create determined outcomes involving production, conservation, and aesthetics. While the focus of much research is on how to plan landscapes more effectively, this article explores how uncertainty and indeterminacy are inevitably also part of the research process. We present the results of discussions among a multidisciplinary group of researchers across the arts, …
The Skyline is Changing: Editing Space and Discourse in Nuclear Decommissioning
Drawing on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork at and around the nuclear facilities at Sellafield in Northwest England, I engage with a ubiquitous turn of phrase that describes the material, visually striking reality of a slowly disappearing industrial landscape, while wishing another, morally charged technosocietal reality into existence. “The skyline is changing” is a discursive trope wielded by the Sellafield Limited company and echoed in local …
Crafting 'The Indian': Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment
In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. "Indian hobbyists" dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspects of North American Indian lifeworlds, using ethnographies, travel diaries, and museum collections as resources. Grounded in fieldwork set among networks…
For a familiar future: ‘Jobs’ and ‘net zero’ as performative markers of worldviews in England’s nuclear heartland
This is a story of two recent energy-related initiatives in the Borough of Copeland, Cumbria, England’s nuclear heartland. In July 2020, a ‘clean energy hub’ was announced, to be located just north of Sellafield, a nuclear site rich in history and controversy. With Sellafield Limited moving into full decommissioning, Copeland heralded this new initiative as a potential ‘jobs bonanza’ for the area and proudly associated its nuclear-inspired underp…
The Fish Is in the Water and the Water Is in the Fish: Symbiosis in a Nuclear Whale Fall
The nuclear site of Sellafield in West Cumbria, North West England, embarks on a long period of decommissioning. Sellafield Limited (SL), the government-owned company running the site, is intent on disentangling the strong socioeconomic and affective relations with its host area with a view to making West Cumbria less dependent on SL, the area's major employer, as the company prepares for a slow withdrawal. Comparing West Cumbria to a whale fall,…
The Nuclear/Nuclear Family: Moralities of Intimacy under Covid-19
During the COVID-19 lockdown, as households were kept separate in a bid to contain the coronavirus, morally underpinned dynamics of fission and fusion occurred, privileging the ‘nuclear family’, which is taken here in two senses: the conventional social unit of a couple and their children, on the one hand, and the togetherness promoted by the nuclear industry in North West England, on the other. Whilst Sellafield’s Nuclear family fused with its h…
Authenticity, Cultural
Moving away from ideas on bounded cultures frozen in timeless traditions, anthropology has increasingly problematized an essentialist view of authenticity as grounded in a measurable material substrate by adopting a social constructivist perspective, leading to a focus on human experience and meaning making in which “materiality” has become a relational, social concept. Anthropology's problematizing, nuancing, and hybridizing of cultural authenti…
Copies and Fakes
In modern Western discourse, copying and imitation have generally been considered questionable, second rate, and even reprehensible activities, as exemplified by art‐historical literature on forgeries or educational and academic concerns with plagiarism and intellectual property rights. The recent ontological turn in the social sciences, however, combined with an anthropological fascination with liminality and boundaries, has led to an increase i…
Mimesis
Mimesis, as a force in collective memory making and in learning about otherness through processes of bodily and sensory replication, has emerged as an analytical focus in anthropological thought under the influence of an interest in incorporative, as opposed to inscriptive, practices. If sustained, mimesis becomes sedimented in the body, transforming selves in the process. Mimetic action involves empowering appropriation; in copying what came bef…
Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk
Extinct as a result of overhunting and habitat loss, the great auk, or garefowl, leads a hidden taxidermied existence in museum storerooms, sheltered from potential further degradation. As an environmental icon, however, the bird inspires a lively political economy of re-creation. Engaging from an anthropological perspective with practices of collecting, representing, and re-creating the great auk, I combine testimonies from Cambridge ornithologi…
Gestures of taxidermy: Morphological approximation as interspecies affinity
Anthropologists have recently begun to highlight human relatedness with other animal species, arguing for a more inclusive posthumanism in which boundaries between different categories of "life" become blurred. Taxidermy in Britain and western Europe both troubles and supports assumptions about interspecies entanglements. In taxidermy, living humans meet dead animals in ways that suggest kinship relations beyond death, expressed in morphological …
Moving in time, out of step: Mimesis as moral breakdown in European re‐enactments of the North American Indian Woodland
What constitutes a dance step executed just right? Does its success reside in its faithfulness to an ‘original’ model or script or in a feeling experienced by the dancer interpreting the model in a new context? This is the kind of epistemological, and moral, dilemma that was often voiced during my fieldwork amongst Indianists, amateurs involved in re‐enactment of Native American lifeworlds on European soil. In Indianism, museum‐quality replicas m…
The World Unwraps from Tiny Bags: Measuring Landscapes in Miniature
Taking its cue from the combination of life-size and miniature re-enactment that takes place in living history settings, this paper explores human play with scale, focusing in particular on what happens when historical and fantasy figures are made to dwell in miniature landscapes. I discuss relations between modellers and the miniatures that they display in dioramas or manipulate in war games, drawing on multi-sited fieldwork leading up to a smal…
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Gestures of taxidermy: Morphological approximation as interspecies affinity
Anthropologists have recently begun to highlight human relatedness with other animal species, arguing for a more inclusive posthumanism in which boundaries between different categories of "life" become blurred. Taxidermy in Britain and western Europe both troubles and supports assumptions about interspecies entanglements. In taxidermy, living humans meet dead animals in ways that suggest kinship relations beyond death, expressed in morphological …
The Fish Is in the Water and the Water Is in the Fish: Symbiosis in a Nuclear Whale Fall
The nuclear site of Sellafield in West Cumbria, North West England, embarks on a long period of decommissioning. Sellafield Limited (SL), the government-owned company running the site, is intent on disentangling the strong socioeconomic and affective relations with its host area with a view to making West Cumbria less dependent on SL, the area's major employer, as the company prepares for a slow withdrawal. Comparing West Cumbria to a whale fall,…
For a familiar future: ‘Jobs’ and ‘net zero’ as performative markers of worldviews in England’s nuclear heartland
This is a story of two recent energy-related initiatives in the Borough of Copeland, Cumbria, England’s nuclear heartland. In July 2020, a ‘clean energy hub’ was announced, to be located just north of Sellafield, a nuclear site rich in history and controversy. With Sellafield Limited moving into full decommissioning, Copeland heralded this new initiative as a potential ‘jobs bonanza’ for the area and proudly associated its nuclear-inspired underp…
Moving in time, out of step: Mimesis as moral breakdown in European re‐enactments of the North American Indian Woodland
What constitutes a dance step executed just right? Does its success reside in its faithfulness to an ‘original’ model or script or in a feeling experienced by the dancer interpreting the model in a new context? This is the kind of epistemological, and moral, dilemma that was often voiced during my fieldwork amongst Indianists, amateurs involved in re‐enactment of Native American lifeworlds on European soil. In Indianism, museum‐quality replicas m…
The World Unwraps from Tiny Bags: Measuring Landscapes in Miniature
Taking its cue from the combination of life-size and miniature re-enactment that takes place in living history settings, this paper explores human play with scale, focusing in particular on what happens when historical and fantasy figures are made to dwell in miniature landscapes. I discuss relations between modellers and the miniatures that they display in dioramas or manipulate in war games, drawing on multi-sited fieldwork leading up to a smal…
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
The World Unwraps from Tiny Bags: Measuring Landscapes in Miniature
Taking its cue from the combination of life-size and miniature re-enactment that takes place in living history settings, this paper explores human play with scale, focusing in particular on what happens when historical and fantasy figures are made to dwell in miniature landscapes. I discuss relations between modellers and the miniatures that they display in dioramas or manipulate in war games, drawing on multi-sited fieldwork leading up to a smal…
Moving in time, out of step: Mimesis as moral breakdown in European re‐enactments of the North American Indian Woodland
What constitutes a dance step executed just right? Does its success reside in its faithfulness to an ‘original’ model or script or in a feeling experienced by the dancer interpreting the model in a new context? This is the kind of epistemological, and moral, dilemma that was often voiced during my fieldwork amongst Indianists, amateurs involved in re‐enactment of Native American lifeworlds on European soil. In Indianism, museum‐quality replicas m…
Authenticity, Cultural
Moving away from ideas on bounded cultures frozen in timeless traditions, anthropology has increasingly problematized an essentialist view of authenticity as grounded in a measurable material substrate by adopting a social constructivist perspective, leading to a focus on human experience and meaning making in which “materiality” has become a relational, social concept. Anthropology's problematizing, nuancing, and hybridizing of cultural authenti…
Copies and Fakes
In modern Western discourse, copying and imitation have generally been considered questionable, second rate, and even reprehensible activities, as exemplified by art‐historical literature on forgeries or educational and academic concerns with plagiarism and intellectual property rights. The recent ontological turn in the social sciences, however, combined with an anthropological fascination with liminality and boundaries, has led to an increase i…
Mimesis
Mimesis, as a force in collective memory making and in learning about otherness through processes of bodily and sensory replication, has emerged as an analytical focus in anthropological thought under the influence of an interest in incorporative, as opposed to inscriptive, practices. If sustained, mimesis becomes sedimented in the body, transforming selves in the process. Mimetic action involves empowering appropriation; in copying what came bef…
Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk
Extinct as a result of overhunting and habitat loss, the great auk, or garefowl, leads a hidden taxidermied existence in museum storerooms, sheltered from potential further degradation. As an environmental icon, however, the bird inspires a lively political economy of re-creation. Engaging from an anthropological perspective with practices of collecting, representing, and re-creating the great auk, I combine testimonies from Cambridge ornithologi…
Gestures of taxidermy: Morphological approximation as interspecies affinity
Anthropologists have recently begun to highlight human relatedness with other animal species, arguing for a more inclusive posthumanism in which boundaries between different categories of "life" become blurred. Taxidermy in Britain and western Europe both troubles and supports assumptions about interspecies entanglements. In taxidermy, living humans meet dead animals in ways that suggest kinship relations beyond death, expressed in morphological …
The Nuclear/Nuclear Family: Moralities of Intimacy under Covid-19
During the COVID-19 lockdown, as households were kept separate in a bid to contain the coronavirus, morally underpinned dynamics of fission and fusion occurred, privileging the ‘nuclear family’, which is taken here in two senses: the conventional social unit of a couple and their children, on the one hand, and the togetherness promoted by the nuclear industry in North West England, on the other. Whilst Sellafield’s Nuclear family fused with its h…
Crafting 'The Indian': Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment
In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. "Indian hobbyists" dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspects of North American Indian lifeworlds, using ethnographies, travel diaries, and museum collections as resources. Grounded in fieldwork set among networks…
For a familiar future: ‘Jobs’ and ‘net zero’ as performative markers of worldviews in England’s nuclear heartland
This is a story of two recent energy-related initiatives in the Borough of Copeland, Cumbria, England’s nuclear heartland. In July 2020, a ‘clean energy hub’ was announced, to be located just north of Sellafield, a nuclear site rich in history and controversy. With Sellafield Limited moving into full decommissioning, Copeland heralded this new initiative as a potential ‘jobs bonanza’ for the area and proudly associated its nuclear-inspired underp…
The Fish Is in the Water and the Water Is in the Fish: Symbiosis in a Nuclear Whale Fall
The nuclear site of Sellafield in West Cumbria, North West England, embarks on a long period of decommissioning. Sellafield Limited (SL), the government-owned company running the site, is intent on disentangling the strong socioeconomic and affective relations with its host area with a view to making West Cumbria less dependent on SL, the area's major employer, as the company prepares for a slow withdrawal. Comparing West Cumbria to a whale fall,…
The Skyline is Changing: Editing Space and Discourse in Nuclear Decommissioning
Drawing on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork at and around the nuclear facilities at Sellafield in Northwest England, I engage with a ubiquitous turn of phrase that describes the material, visually striking reality of a slowly disappearing industrial landscape, while wishing another, morally charged technosocietal reality into existence. “The skyline is changing” is a discursive trope wielded by the Sellafield Limited company and echoed in local …
What do indeterminacy and uncertainty mean in landscape research? Perspectives from natural sciences, social sciences, and arts
Landscapes, intentionally or otherwise, are often planned and managed in ways that create determined outcomes involving production, conservation, and aesthetics. While the focus of much research is on how to plan landscapes more effectively, this article explores how uncertainty and indeterminacy are inevitably also part of the research process. We present the results of discussions among a multidisciplinary group of researchers across the arts, …
Sociology (12 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Art (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)